Father Z: Canon 249

[Augustinian]

Looking at the history of Rome “leaning” on the Rites as their clergy came to the US, one could easily suspect that Rome was terrified that the Roman rite might be influenced.

Archbishop Ireland had acrimonious relations with Eastern Catholics, but I don’t think he had the concern you are hypothesizing here.

I think the real reason for latinizations among Eastern Catholics is due to their small minority status. Many EC’s have gone to Latin rite schools, worked and lived among Latin Rite neighbors and friends, married Latin Rite women, move to areas of the country where there aren’t enough Catholics of their sui juris church to have a parish or regular eastern liturgies. A Ukrainian Catholic gal moving to South Carolina to be with her Latin Rite husband, it would be hard to imagine a situation where she wouldn’t have some latinization.

 

[otjm]

According to John Paul 2, that was not the issue. You might want to dig around a bit to see what he had to say and what about. I would dig further, but an jammed for time.

 

[otjm]

The problem, particularly from within, is that it mistook unity with uniformity.

 

[twf]

I’m not sure about that. A lot of our vocabulary is derived from Norman French and thus Latin in origin… but the structure, the grammar, is more Germanic, no?

 

[stpurl]

I was never an altar boy either. Him, pax. Peace. Domini. . . Dominus vobiscum. . .Dominate, lord over, Ah, must be Lord. Semper. . .hey, we’ve heard the Marine’s motto, semper, must be always. . .The peace of the Lord always. . .vobis, looks a bit like you, cum hey, ‘cum laude’ with honor. . . the peace of the Lord be with you always. . .Doesn’t seem THAT hard to figure out using cognates and vocabulary that most people could be expected to have knowledge of. . .