Prior to the return of the Vetus Ordo, even in a limited way around 1986, for the majority of thinking Catholics, the liturgy wars did not revolve around the old verse the new Mass. It revolved around the proper celebration of the new Mass compared to the abusive ways the new Mass was being celebrated not only by priests but various communities including religious orders.
Those who wanted a free-wheeling liturgy with creativity on the spot, the celebrant-focused Mass, and making things up as he goes and, for some weird purpose still unknown to me, giant puppets used at Mass, they accused those who were waging war on all of that as being liturgical Nazis.
For them, the problem was that anyone would call them out, especially the liturgically rigid.
And it wasn’t just puppets that war waged upon, but unnecessary numbers of extraordinary ministers of communion, making them ordinary. It was also on the use of the common chalice for huge numbers of communicants which, in fact, is against liturgical law in the GIRM.
But this war was also on poor music, normally contemporary Broadway sounding ditties set to religous words. But also instrumentation that excluded the organ which was suppose to have a pride of place at Mass, along with Gregorian Chant, Latin and reverence. The old liturgy wars was about the loss of all of these, including reverence.
It was a war on sloppiness too and on wreckovations.
There is a lot more too. But with Summorum Pontificum and then Custodis Traditionis, a war to crush SP, the liturgy wars have shifted to not having the Vetus Ordo celebrated on an equal footing with the Novus Ordo. In fact, the war from the Vatican on the Vetus Ordo also included the nuclear option of not even being able to advertise the Vetus Ordo in parish bulletins and this mandated not from the local bishop but from Rome! That’s what Orwellianism is, no?
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