Whaaaa...??!?@?$?%??

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506013.htm
Doing a little research on line, I was of course distracted, (well, I wouldn't be ME if I managed to accomplish anything in a timely manner and in a linear progression...)

CNS is essentially an organ of what one of Their Excellencies referred to as a "hapless bench of bishops", isn't it?

In the wake of the council, it was not uncommon for wedding Masses to feature a reading from, say, Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet," or to be celebrated outdoors during the 1970s. Outdoor weddings may still be conducted with the permission of the diocesan bishop, according to Msgr. James Moroney, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Liturgy. But after what he called "a spirit of experimentation that was appropriate for the time," Scripture readings at weddings again became the norm.

So Moroney is saying (I know, I know, oooooooold article, WAS saying,) that that loopy practice of pushing aside the Word of God to replace it with whatever struck some Liturgy-Monger's fancy was actually LICIT? was allowed, was justifiable at some point?
Can that be right?
I wonder where I can find out.

Now Filteau doesn't attribute this:
Sunday Masses could be celebrated on Saturday evenings. The thinking was that families could fulfill their Sunday obligation and have Sunday free for family activities.
So I'm just wondering if HE can be right that that was the thinking?

And this is wrong:
The "paraliturgy," a kind of prayer service that in some ways resembled Mass but did not include the consecration of the Eucharist, and the "holy hour," another devotional practice that sometimes included eucharistic devotion, supplanted older pietistic practices such as rosary recitations, novenas and the Forty Hours devotion.

I clearly remember pre-VCII "Holy Hours," (I have snapshots of us in our tiny Dominican habits!) And while some of Satan's useful idiots may have done their best to stamp out 40 Hours, and discourage rosary recitation they were hardly successful.

And finally, this (emphasis mine) -
With liturgical changes came many more roles for lay people. Beyond the surge in the number of choirs, the laity could be lectors -- a role previously reserved for priesthood candidates -- as well as liturgists and eucharistic ministers, today called extraordinary ministers of holy Communion.

That's simply a whopper.