GEOFFREY HULL: THE BANISHED HEART, Origins of Heteropraxis in the Catholic Church,Sefton, 1995, 1996, 320 pThe author, a professor in the university of Sidney, is well versed in Oriental rites. I met him during a visit inKerala. The foreword is written by Prof. Warwick Orr of Sidney University; the book contains 7 pages ofbibliography covering old and recent Catholic and non-Catholic books and an Index of 10 pages. There is animpressive number of footnotes. All this shows that the book is a serious research work.Introduction. Most Catholics adopt a 'self-service' Protestant approach to the beliefs and practices of theChurch. This is not a rebellion, but they responded to John XXIII's call to aggiornamento. The fault lies with theChurch's policy, not with faithful directed to embrace it. The recent popes didn't realise that inculturation cannotbe a half-measure: culture amounts to more than modes of linguistic, literary and artistic expression. Modernculture is secular, man-centred, in conflict with Christian tradition. One cannot change the culture in whichCatholicism was always expressed (orthopraxis) without attacking the bases of the Faith itself. This work seeksthe causes of today's institutionalised heteropraxis.1. A New Law of PrayerIn traditional liturgy everything in the ritual indicated that the priest's role is distinct from that of the people. Thisliturgy is transcendent, God-centred. The new liturgy appears man-centred1. The French liturgist, Gelineaustated: "The Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists. It has been destroyed"2. The Council however didn'torder a drastic restructuring of the Roman rite3. Inter Oecumenici (1964) ordered the erection of commissions,who were at once dominated by liberals. Priests started to give Communion in the hand. Tres Abhinc Annos(1967) permitted the recitation of the Canon aloud, in the vernacular and suppressed many ceremonies(genuflexions). A normative mass4 was celebrated before the 1967 Synod of Bishops and was re...