The German novelist Martin Mosebach wrote the original manuscript for The Heresy of Formlessness, his book-length defense of the traditional Latin liturgy of the Catholic Church, in 2002. I see that in a few months we will be coming on the 20th anniversary of its publication in English by the invaluable Ignatius Press.

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In a recent re-reading, I was struck by Mosebach nodding to the generative power of the traditional liturgy in culture, even the culture of those who despised it. He notes in one section that James Joyce’s Ulysses begins with one of its two protagonists, Stephen Dedalus,........

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