text: Regarding: "Benedictine Fr. Anthony Ruff, associate professor of theology at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., told NCR that restorationism is a reaction to growing secularization and rapid social change... ."
  - More to the point, the recently ordained restorationist are in effect men who somehow have lost the way to, or foresaken their responsibility for developing a strong sense of self. By that is meant that these men somehow confused themselves into thinking that 'smells, bell' are what make their dressed up role in Eucharist what it is -- the Sacred Mystery.
  - It is one thing to have an appreciation for art and music for use in a liturgical setting which helps people to participate in a liturgy, it is another to use it as a form of gnosticism -- you are not christian unless you accept that the sacred rites are humanely out of reach.
  - A point not addressed in the article is the ties that bind restorationism to 'radical orthodoxy' of the pure catholic church crowd.