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"Fr. Louis Bouyer, an outstanding figure in the pre-conciliar Liturgical Movement, claims that:
in no other area is there a greater distance (and even formal opposition) between what the Council worked out and what we actually have ... I now have the impressed, and I am not alone, that those who took it upon themselves to apply (?) the Council's directives on this point have turned their backs to deliberately on what Beauduin, Casel, and Pius Parsh had set out to do, and to which I had tried vainly to add some small contribution of my own. I do not wish to vouch for the truth, or seem to, at any greater length of this denial and imposture. If any are still interested, they may read the books I wrote on the subject; there are only too many of these! Or better, they might read the books of the experts I have just mentioned, on whom they have been able to turn their backs..."

- from Pope John's Council by Michael Davies, page 224, quoting Fr. Louis Bouyer in The Decomposition of Catholicism, page 99 (London 1970). In Davies' booklet Liturgical Shipwreck 25 Years of the New Mass, he writes:

"In 1964 Father Bouyer wrote an enthusiastic appreciation of the Liturgy Constitution entitled The Liturgy Revived, which predicted the flowering of a great liturgical renewal. He had become totally disillusioned by 1968 and wrote a scathing denunciation of the manner in which the reform was developing in practice, entitled The Decomposition of Catholicism, in which he states that not only is there formal opposition between what the Council required and what we actually have, but that, in practice, the reform constitutes a repudiation of the papally approved liturgical movement to which he had contributed" (see the above quotation)