Pope set to bring back Latin Mass in face of opposition (May 14 article from TimesOnline)

[paramedicgirl]

Regard my previous post about the fad issue. [EDITED TO ADD POST LINK: http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=2230617&postcount=113]

In the context of Catholic beliefs, yes. But I think my previous post just above, covers that one too. In the context of Catholic beliefs, both are possibilities, unless ya get Machiavellic and you don’t mind why they go, especially if they prefer an unintelligible language than vernacular (e.g. English).

Bring common folk using a language that hasn’t had native common folk speaker since -wahooooooooo!- ?

Yeah, maybe… Coming from a deity who’s first plan to wipe sin from earth was drown everyone, it seems coherent.

Since you’re not Catholic, I wouldn’t expect you to understand Catholic beliefs and practices, or the pull that the ancient Mass has for many Catholics.

 

[LogosSokratikos]

Since you’re not Catholic, I wouldn’t expect you to understand Catholic beliefs and practices, or the pull that the ancient Mass has for many Catholics.

I am a person of at least regular intelligence (at least enough to earn my degree in psychology) and also an ex-Catholic who made a knowledgeable step out of faith, so I am able to understand. That I find the subject the whole Mass-in-Latin bit rather specious, is different, and may mean that either I don’t get it or I get it all-too-well. Dismissing my capacity for understanding based on the side of the fence I happen to be on is misleading.

If someone says “Pete is rather deceptive”, should you reply, “No, you don’t understand, Pete is not a Catholic and you are, and therefore you can’t understand him”?

Obviously not. You being Catholic doesn’t limit your intelligence for understanding issues outside the realm of Catholicism, so, likewise, my being on the other side of the fence doesn’t immediately render mine “handicapped” or something like that.

 

[Jean_Anthony]

The thread is going off topic. Please return to the original discussion, everyone. Thank you.

 

[Rolltide]

This was released today (May 17). It appears that Ecclesia Dei has been formally informed that “the Holy Father has the intention of extending to the entire Latin Church the possibility of celebrating Holy Mass and the Sacraments according to the liturgical books promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962.”

Here’s the link:
rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2007/05/aparecida-notes-urgent-news-castrilln.html

 

[paramedicgirl]

This was released today (May 17). It appears that Ecclesia Dei has been formally informed that “the Holy Father has the intention of extending to the entire Latin Church the possibility of celebrating Holy Mass and the Sacraments according to the liturgical books promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962.”

Here’s the link:
rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2007/05/aparecida-notes-urgent-news-castrilln.html

Looks like hell will freeze over indeed!

 

[Rolltide]

More commentary by Father Z here:

wdtprs.com/blog/2007/05/card-castrillon-ecclesia-dei-to-celam-the-time-has-come/

 

[Jean_Anthony]

Since there has been a significant update on this topic: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=154623, I am closing this thread. Thank you to all who participated in this thread.