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The Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is responsible for upholding the Church’s traditions, teachings, and disciplines concerning the Sacraments—especially as they are performed through the Mass and the liturgy of the Church. These documents, authored by the same Congregation, uphold the Second Vatican Council’s teachings and explain how to intregrate them...

A dualism, however, prevailed between Liturgy and popular piety. Towards the end of the middles ages, both, however, went through a period of crisis. Because of the collapse of cultic unity, secondary elements in the Liturgy acquired an excessive relevance to the detriment of its central elements. In popular piety, because of the lack of adequate catechesis, deviations and exaggerations threatened the correct expressions of Christian worship.
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