This booklet makes clear that Mass facing the people has never been demanded by the Church and that it was not so much as mentioned in a single document of the Second Vatican Council. In addition, there is no mandatory legislation from the Holy See requiring that Mass be said facing the people. The booklet notes the great pastoral insensitivity and ignorance of liturgical history regularly inflicted upon church members, but it also gives the documentation to resistùespecially as it affects the celebration of the Traditional Mass.

ôHe always truly remained a man of the Church.öùCardinal Ratzinger on Michael Davies