From the blog Dominus mihi adjutor
by Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB
…It (an excerpt from a 1966 Catholic Herald newspaper article) refers to the then 18-month-old permission given to parishes in England and Wales to celebrate Mass versus populum, facing the people. It notes that only 10% of parishes had taken up this permission; at those 10% of parishes the change was said to be very popular with the people. Mmmm.
My first thought was to wonder if anyone would be so precipitate as to use this as an argument against the mounting desire for a return to ad orientem…
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