Teksten under (utdrag fra CNS) er en oppsummering av kardinal Kurt Kochs (som er Vatikanets nye økumenikk-leder) foredrag under liturgikonferansen på *Angelicum* i Roma sist lørdag – den er også blitt trykket i L’Osservatore Romano.
Pope Benedict XVI’s easing of restrictions on use of the 1962 Roman Missal, known as the Tridentine rite, is just the first step in a «reform of the reform» in liturgy, … The pope’s long-term aim is not simply to allow the old and new rites to coexist, but to move toward a «common rite» that is shaped by the mutual enrichment of the two Mass forms …
In effect, the pope is launching a new liturgical reform movement, the cardinal said. Those who resist it, including «rigid» progressives, mistakenly view the Second Vatican Council as a rupture with the church’s liturgical tradition, he said. …
Cardinal Koch said Pope Benedict thinks the post-Vatican II liturgical changes have brought «many positive fruits» but also problems, including a focus on purely practical matters and a neglect of the paschal mystery in the Eucharistic celebration. The cardinal said it was legitimate to ask whether liturgical innovators had intentionally gone beyond the council’s stated intentions.
He said this explains why Pope Benedict has introduced a new reform movement, beginning with «Summorum Pontificum.» The aim, he said, is to revisit Vatican II’s teachings in liturgy and strengthen certain elements, including the Christological and sacrificial dimensions of the Mass.
Cardinal Koch said «Summorum Pontificum» is «only the beginning of this new liturgical movement.» «In fact, Pope Benedict knows well that, in the long term, we cannot stop at a coexistence between the ordinary form and the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, but that in the future the church naturally will once again need a common rite,» he said.
«However, because a new liturgical reform cannot be decided theoretically, but requires a process of growth and purification, the pope for the moment is underlining above all that the two forms of the Roman rite can and should enrich each other,» he said.
Cardinal Koch said those who oppose this new reform movement and see it as a step back from Vatican II lack a proper understanding of the post-Vatican II liturgical changes. As the pope has emphasized, Vatican II was not a break or rupture with tradition but part of an organic process of growth, he said.