Erasmus’s Critique of Paul VI’s Liturgical Reform

An anti-Protestant polemic from 1529 could easily have been written for Catholics in 1969

Without a doubt, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536) was the most eminent intellectual of his age. He managed to offend everybody on all sides, while gaining respect for his exalted scholarship and principled theological stance in the midst of the reformatory upheavals of the sixteenth century.

A Catholic priest, he defended the teachings and practices of t…