Bishop Cancels Nicene Creed to Avoid Offending Non-Catholics

[Tis_Bearself]

How is prayer ‘watered-down’ if it is silent?

The rubrics of the Mass require certain prayers to be recited out loud by the congregation.
Priests saying Mass generally aren’t allowed to just change these requirements when they feel like it.

The Profession of Faith during Mass (i.e. Nicene Creed) is intended to be a public statement of Catholic belief, made out loud, openly, by the congregation. It is not intended to be a silent prayer.
I have never been to any Mass where it was made a silent prayer.

 

[Cirdan_XII]

I hadn’t seen the original thread either. I find this particularly weird as my particular Protestant tradition, at least, recognizes the Nicene creed as an authoritative formulation of its faith.

I attended an Anglican school for some years as a child. The headmaster was an Anglican vicar. We said the entire Creed every morning in school assembly, including the " One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" bit.

 

[OddBird]

including the " One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" bit.

Yes, here too in most Reformed churches. Most people would tell you that they know “catholic” originally means “universal” and they don’t have an issue with that.

FWIW, we have a French ecumenical translation of the Nicene creed. It omits the Filioque and the bit about the Church reads “je crois en l’Eglise une et sainte, à sa catholicité et à son apostolicité” (“I believe in the one holy Church, in her catholicity and in her apostolicity”), but it is hardly ever used. Non-Orthodox people mostly go with the Catholic text.