Revisiting "Liturgical Dance"

Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has recently and publicly criticized introducing dance into the Liturgy, as it risks reducing this sacred rite to a spectacle.

In an address in 2003, the cardinal responded to a question on "liturgical dance":

"There has never been a document from our Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments saying that dance is approved in the Mass"; and he noted that "the tradition of the Latin Church has not known the dance. It is something that people are introducing in the last ten years -- or twenty years".

Adoremus has a new article on this subject, which has been termed, (quite appropriately it seems), "Leotardation" by The Curt Jester