Bishop Mark Beckman of Knoxville has asked his priests to end communal prayers immediately before, during and after Mass, including the prayer to St Michael the Archangel, a year after he wound down the diocese's Latin Masses. David Hahn traces the prayer back to the Leonine prayers of Leo XIII, gives the bishop's argument its due and asks what "noble simplicity" is really preserved.

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