It was almost ten years ago that Father (now Cardinal) Avery Dulles, S.J., wrote this illuminating essay on tradition and the liturgy, but it's as relevant now as it was then -- perhaps even more so, now that a "reform of the reform" is endorsed at the highest level of the Church's leadership. Lenten mortifications aside, treat yourself to the (inculpable) pleasure of reading it (or re-reading it, as the case may be) over at First Things.