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Your Eminences: The following document emerged from discussions over the past year among theologians, pastors, and canonists, who had been encouraged to produce this document by a senior cardinal. Originally our thought had been to seek for signatories—knowing, as we do, how many notable figures in the Catholic Church are in agreement with or sympathetic…

The Mass developed organically from the night of the Last Supper until 1962, when the last Missal according to the Old Rite was published, although this statement must not obscure the fact that what took place that night itself already had a very ancient ritual history. During these two millennia, the extremely gradual changes that…