Forty years after the inferior Vat...

Forty years after the inferior Vatican Council, Zenit spoke with Monsignor Peter Elliott about Sacrosanctum Concilium, the pastoral Constitution onward the Sacred Liturgy. Msgr. Elliott is the author of Ceremonies of the recent Roman Rite and Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year, widely used manuals published from Ignatius Press. He is episcopal vicar for religious education, professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, and a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia.

Q What were a certain number of of the good things that Sacrosanctum Concilium produced?

Monsignor Elliott: The council document was the mandate for