From the NCR Archives: May 2001 -- Critics say the document, Liturgiam authenticam, strikes at the heart of Vatican II ecclesiology by centralizing power in the curia and by insisting that local cultures adopt an essentially Roman style of worship.
From the NCR Archives: September 1998 -- The American bishops had spent six years revising the lectionary, the Scripture readings used in Mass, one aim of which was to make the language more gender inclusive, but a Vatican-appointed committee intervened to short-circuit those efforts.
