ALFREDO CARDINAL OTTAVIANI
ANTONIO CARDINAL BACCI
TO HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
COMMONLY CALLED "THE OTTAVIANI INTERVENTION"
[On September 25, 1969, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Prefect-Emeritus of
the Sacred Congregation for the Faith; Antonio Cardinal Bacci, of the
Vatican's Congregations for Religious, Causes of Saints, and Catholic
Education; and a group of Roman theologians sent a letter to Pope Paul VI "A
Short Critical Study of the New Order of sent a letter to Pope Paul VI.
Accompanying the letter was a theological Study of the New Order of the
Mass (Novus Ordo Missae), written by a group of Roman theologians.
Cardinal Ottaviani's letter was a plea to His Holiness "not to deprive
us of the possibility of continuing to have recourse to the fruitful
integrity of that Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, so highly praised by
Your Holiness and so deeply loved and venerated by the whole Catholic
world." It was apparently in response to the Ottaviani Intervention
that Pope Paul subsequently ordered a delay of two years in the deadline
for mandatory implementation of the new Ordo.
[Note that the Cardinal is speaking here of the defects not of any
vernacular translation, but of the original Latin draft, that is, the
New Mass in its best, in its purest form.]
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