{"product_id":"the-torn-tunic-tito-casini-9781621386438","title":"The Torn Tunic: Letter of a Catholic on the \"liturgical Reform\" (Catholic Traditionalist Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopies of this little book by the Tuscan writer Tito Casini (1897-1987) first appeared in the bookshops of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRome in 1967. It was described in the Italian press as a literary atomic bomb, or \u003cem\u003epyrobolus atomicus\u003c\/em\u003e-a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eterm found in the Italian-Latin dictionary of Cardinal Bacci, who had served four popes in the drawing up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof major documents, and who contributed a daring foreword to Casini's \u003cem\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/em\u003e against the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evulgarization of Catholic liturgy in the name of \"reform.\" Representing both the common man and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeducated of his day, Casini spares nothing and no one in his defense of cherished traditions and his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecritique of utopian innovations. Although the process of relentless \u003cem\u003eaggiornamento\u003c\/em\u003e churned on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einexorably in spite of such protests, Casini's work stands today as both a powerfully moving record of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estruggles of the early traditionalist movement, caught by surprise in the maelstrom of Montini's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epontificate, and an exemplary exercise of the \u003cem\u003eparrhesia\u003c\/em\u003e or boldness that belongs to the baptized in Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Torn Tunic\u003c\/em\u003e was in its day a testimonial of profound love for tradition in the face of callous contempt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor readers over half a century later, it reads like a prophecy of better days to come, when the same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etradition, surviving against all odds, would be rediscovered by new generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tito Casini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621386430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621386438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Angelico Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.33d","brand":"Tito Casini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943649804543,"sku":"9781621386438","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b93409cb-0112-4517-b704-7307cab18c83.jpg?v=1681499283","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-torn-tunic-tito-casini-9781621386438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}