More from Martin Mosebach

I have been recommending Martin Mosebach's book "The Heresy of Formlessness" to all sentient Catholics, and especially priests, since I read it a couple of years ago.  I have even given a copy to one bishop as a present.  Mosebach, a novelist rather than a liturgist or theologian, has some amazingly good insights which go a long way toward helping the average Catholic understand the importance of the liturgy and, not incidentally, the relationship between the liturgical chaos of the past forty-something years and the disintegration of Catholic belief and practice in so many regions.

Mr. Mosebach recently spoke at a liturgy conference in the Archdiocese of Columbo (in Sri Lanka), whose incumbent is the redoubtable Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith.  Mosebach's talk, entitled "The Old Roman Missal: Loss and Rediscovery" is well worth reading, and may be especially interesting for those who have not yet had a chance to read his book.

By the way, for those who are not famililar with Archbishop Ranjith, he is a man to watch in the Catholic Church.  Most knowledgeable churchmen expect him to be named a cardinal very soon, and eventually to return to Rome in some high post.