Question 10.167

10.167 Some people are alarmed about a crisis of the liturgy in the Church. Are they right?

Alas, I think that they are right to be worried and to fear the worst. … We observe more and more that man seeks to take the place of God. The liturgy then becomes a mere human game. If eucharistic celebrations turn into human celebrations of ourselves and places where we apply our pastoral ideologies and partisan political preferences, which have nothing to do with spiritual worship that is to be celebrated as God wills, the danger is immense. For then God disappears.