Subversive Catholicism

C O N T E N T S

PART I: THE POPE IN ROME
Ultramontane 1
The Chinese Pope 5
Pope Without a Country 11
He Is, After All, Only the Pope 15
On the Pope 25

PART II: LITURGY IN THE CHURCH
Prayer 41
Praying and Dying [41]—The Churchy Type and “Pius
Aeneas” [43]—The Necessity of Prayer Wheels [46]—”Oculis
levatis ad caelum” [47]—The Repetitions of the Angel [51]

Christmas Every Day 55

By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them… 59
The break with tradition [59]—The new Mass is not the Mass of
Vatican II [60]—The aim of the reform was not to strengthen discipline
but to weaken it [62]—By its own standards the “pastoral”
reform of the Mass has failed [63]—The reform of the Mass will
not stand up to detailed examination [64]—The reform of the
Mass has produced poisonous fruit [66]

The Old Roman Missal: Between Loss
and Rediscovery 69
Return to Form: The Fate of the Rite is
the Fate of the Church 87

PART III: CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD
God Must Be in Europe’s Constitution 103
The Anarchism of Mercy 107
On the Value of Proscription 113
A German Pilgrim in Chartres 119
A Magical Place: Lourdes and the Pilgrims 125
The City and the Churches [125]—The Ritual [127]—
Bernadette [129]—The Pilgrims [132]—The House
of Bernadette’s Parents [134]—Kitsch [136]—The
Grotto [138]

In Praise of the Lourdes Madonna 141