
This is indeed Clericalism. Going back to our definition of "One who attributes excessive power to the Clergy", we can easily see the correlation. By allowing, and encourage clerics to "make the liturgy their own" and insert their own prayers, own styles, own preferences, into the Sacred Liturgy, the Neo-Clericalists truly are attributing excessive power to the Clergy. Conversely, we, who insist on adherence to rubrics, norms, and traditions, are the very antithesis of clericalists. Where they give, into the hands of clergy, the unwarranted power over the Sacred Liturgy itself, we, on the contrary, demand fidelity and obedience to something greater. Where they give free license to the innovations and vicissitudes of the cleric, we expect and require rigid compliance.
How is it then, that we are Clericalists and they are not?
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