Instead, directing plain
phrases to the scholarly Holy Father, Kennedy wrote in seeming self - justification both
of his pride in the causes he had championed and unvarnished, if vague,
acknowledgment of his failings.
He even borrows (with
acknowledgment) Pius XII's
phrase «memorialis demonstratio» for his reiteration
of the traditional teaching on the basis
of the identity
of the Mass with the sacrifice
of the Cross.