Silence of bishops and clergy

1.I SHOULD like to thank you
whole-heartedly for publishing the splendidly forthright article by Hugh Ross Williamson (Nov. 28.) It was a relief to see at last brought into the open the points which have been causing many of us such acute and deep distress, distress moreover which our pastors do nothing to acknowledge or allay.
Can anybody explain why our clergy and bishops are so reluctant to say what a number of them are known to think about the most enormous change in non-doctrinal matters ever made in the history of the Church, a change in our worship bound to affect intimately everybody's personal life at its very deepest?
Their silence only gives the impression that we are as un reasoningly terrorised by authority as protestants have always accused us of being.
Freda Bruce Lockhart London, W.8.
FR. FRANCES FENN, S.J. (December 5) tells us that the Holy Father "has appealed to us not to go digging back into past controversies, but to consider present realities." The implication apparently being that the sacrifice of the Mass, transubstantiation and the adoration owed the Blessed Sacrament are no longer in dispute, and so sweeping changes in the Mass should cause no concern to faithful Catholics.
However, Pope Paul has himself warned the whole Church against speakers and writers on the Holy Eucharist who "seem to think that, although a doctrine has been defined once by the Church. it is open to anyone to ignore it or to give it an interpretation that whittles away the natural meaning of the words or the accepted sense of the concepts." (Encyclical Mysterium Fidel).
I submit that "present realities" require the doctrinal clarity and devotional inspiration of the Tridentine Mass. providentially guaranteed us by the supreme apostolic authority of St. Pius V.
Given the multiplicity of forms allowed by the "Missa Normativa," the proscription' of the Counter-Reformation rite seems inexplicable except as a repudiation of the teaching and spirituality of Trent.
W. J. Morgan
Rugby.