In his approach, tradition seems to become an elastic concept, defined more by the present than by the received heritage.
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, has intervened in the liturgical debate with a reflection published in Chicago Catholic following his participation in the consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV.
Under pastoral language, the cardinal proposes a reading of the tradition and liturgical reform that, far from appeasing tensions, once again places the liturgy at the center of an unresolved ideological dispute in the Church.
Cupich starts from the premise that the liturgy is not a static reality, but a living reality that has undergone reforms throughout history. However, the way he develops this assertion reveals a conception of tradition that can be considered reductive. Tradition is presented almost exclusively as a process of cultural adaptation, minimizing its normative, received, and binding dimension.
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