Much of the excitement of guitar Masses, living-room Masses, sport-shirted celebrants, readings from Eldridge Cleaver, coffee-and-donut Eucharists, and post-communion dancing has depended on the dramatic clash of the old and new, the unexpectedness of it all, the daring and shock it has engendered…one fact seems clear—man needs roots.
–James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, 1971, page 125
