Pope Leo Says the Liturgical Reform Was Necessary. But Where Did Everybody Go?

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Pope Leo XIV Wednesday Audience 26th August 20026

The Pope says Vatican II’s reforms were needed to encourage greater participation. Sixty years of collapsing Mass attendance make that claim increasingly difficult to leave unexamined. Pope Leo XIV has offered his clearest defence yet of the liturgical reform that followed the Second Vatican Council, arguing that the revision of the Church’s liturgical books was considered “necessary”…

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