The Mass of Paul VI is unambiguously sacrificial, not simply a remembrance of ‘the Lord’s Supper’
Authors
William Oddie
Dr William Oddie is a leading English Catholic writer and broadcaster. He edited The Catholic Herald from 1998 to 2004 and is the author of The Roman Option and Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy.
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