He has spoken on the importance of Beauty, as for CNA, and on the Heritage of the Roman Rite. He is also friendly to the SSPX. The Gay, Tell blog of the Modernist Monastery has only a laconic, indeed sepulchral post about him with weeping and gnashing of the teeth from some commenters. In short, he's hated by the right people, and loved by those of us who want for the health of the Church.
Here's an excerpt from Father MacDonald with his boldface:
Yet today, we are acutely conscious of the fact that all has notbeen well in recent decades in respect of the cultural life of the Latinrite of the Catholic Church. Western society has been suffering froma profound cultural crisis for some time and this has impacted onthe Church. Indeed, our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI himself, as Cardinal Ratzinger, expressed on a number of occasions his profound
concern for the crisis in the cultus of the Church that we have experienced
in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, from the “fabrication” of new rites, to the banalization of ecclesiastical music
and the unprecedented re-ordering of the spatial arrangements of
churchesCardinal Ratzinger, expressed on a number of occasions his profound concern for the crisis in the cultus of the Church that we have experienced in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, from the“fabrication” of new rites, to the banalization of ecclesiastical music and the unprecedented re-ordering of the spatial arrangements ofchurches (see The Ratzinger Report [Ignatius, 1985], The Feast of Faith[Ignatius, 1986], The Spirit of the Liturgy [Ignatius, 2000]).
It is possible to say that, in recent decades, much of the cultural heritage of the Church – from venerable rites to the many goodsemployed in their service – has been endangered by an ideology ofnovelty that has misunderstood if not rejected the profound respectfor the tradition that genuine creativity in continuity with tradition had always understood.
This of course, has not simply left us with an impoverished cultural experience in our churches. Most crucially, any impoverishment of the sacramentals themselves carries with it the danger of weakening the very encounter with the incarnate Lord which these rites and ritual things facilitate.an impoverished cultural experience in our churches. Most crucially,any impoverishment of the sacramentals themselves carries with itthe danger of weakening the very encounter with the incarnate Lordwhich these rites and ritual things facilitate. We creatures of fleshand blood ordinarily require these cultural goods in order to enterinto the life of grace and to persevere in it until the end. They serveto raise our minds and hearts to Almighty God, and to lead us into that encounter from which we receive grace. Devaluing or dismissing them may have – indeed has had – an adverse effect on the life offaith of many in recent times.
