Waugh and Cardinal Heenan on Vatican II

From A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes:

Dear Sir, –The pundits explain the continuing process of change in the liturgy by saying that it helps the laity to 'participate' in the Mass.

Can they, please, explain how this desirable object is furthered by today's peremptory prohibition of kneeling at the incarnatus in the creed?

Your obedient servant, Evelyn Waugh. (Letter to the Editor of the Tablet, 24 April 1965)

Why are we constantly asked to give money to schools if the children learn so little there that Corpus Christi, Pater Noster, Domine, non sum dignus are unintelligible to them? (Waugh, Letter to the Editor of the Tablet, 17 July 1965)

Certainly many cannot follow the Latin liturgy any more than an infant can understand the words which are spoken at his baptism. The flow of Grace is not impeded by vocabulary. (Waugh, Letter to the Editor of the Tablet, 7 August 1965)

...another large part is fasting through vanity, to the extent of paying up to  £50 a week to starve in clinics...If, as they claim, the liturgists wish to emulate the Church of the earliest centuries, would they not do well to fast rigorously? (Waugh, Letter to the Editor of the Tablet, 21 August 1965)