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**KATH.NET: What do you say to the fact that there is a “Liturgical Marketplace” with model “Women’s Sermons” on an official website of the Diocese of Linz? **
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The expression “Liturgical Marketplace” foreshadows already to some extent the self-secularisation of Christian reflection and talk about the Holy. The liturgy, as well as endeavours in the forefront of it, do not deserve to be compared with a marketing event, which is concerned with making business, exchanging material goods and with speculations on prices. Concerning the central issue, it has to be stated that the invitation for women to give homilies during Holy Mass, which is implied by such documents, violates the law and the discipline of the church.
**As regards the contents: If the content of the service of the word and of the proclamation of the Gospel are aimed exclusively at women, this contradicts the instruction of Christ who wants that through him “all might believe” (Jn 1,7). **
KATH.NET: What do you say to the fact that in 20 parishes of the Diocese of Linz the official church readings are not used any longer,** because they have been replaced by “Women’s Pericopes”? **
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The replacement of official church readings or the introduction of “alternatives” by “Women’s Pericopes” is a selection of the Gospel, an arbitrary human reduction of the word of God. If even certain texts and writings are screened and deemed to be unsuitable, then we are in danger of reducing the Gospel to certain “suitable” texts. As a matter of fact, this is the rejection of the authority of the canon of the Holy Scriptures. By this we see the revolutionary potential that is intrinsic in such individualisms. Furthermore such regulations are strictly reserved to the Holy See and within the scope of the law to the diocesan bishop.
pb]KATH.NET: One of the “Women’s Sermons” contains the following text: “We begin this service. In the name of the divine strength that has created all the beauty of our world. In the name of Jesus Christ, who has opened our eyes for the love in ourselves and around us. In the name of the Holy Ghost, the divine ruach. She is joining us and keeping us together.” What is your reaction?
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The aforementioned formula for the opening of the service is the product of an extreme feminism and is watering down the Christian faith in a triune God to a surrogate of feminine vital forces. Furthermore the faith in Jesus Christ the Saviour is changed beyond recognition. This formula can be read as the commitment to an immanentistic post-Christian faith.
kath.net/detail.php?id=9767
The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, comments on the peculiar liturgical practices in the Diocese of Linz. On February 19, Arinze wrote in a letter to a Catholic of the diocese that was disclosed to kath.net: “This Congregation is already informed regarding most of the abuses You listed and is doing what it can to help remove them.”
KATH.NET was told by priests of the Diocese of Linz that His Excellency Maximilian Aichern, Bishop of Linz, is most likely informed on the liturgical abuses in his diocese. **The impression of the priests is that the bishop does not recognise these abuses as such, but merely as the encounter of “differing theological views” which all are justifiable. **
kath.net/detail.php?id=9851
The dicastry will investigate the cases you referenced
Linz (www.kath.net)
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will examine the liturgical abuses in the Diocese of Linz. This follows from an official letter to a Catholic in Upper Austria, which he received via the Apostolic Nunciature in Austria. **The dicastry will investigate the cases you referenced, is the answer from Rome to his inquiry. **
KATH.NET learned that several priests of the Diocese of Linz are planning to write a letter to the Vatican in order to ask for an visitation of their diocese. In the meantime complaints on liturgical particularities in many parishes of the diocese are piling up at the nunciature of Austria.
kath.net/detail.php?id=9976
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The expression “Liturgical Marketplace” foreshadows already to some extent the self-secularisation of Christian reflection and talk about the Holy. The liturgy, as well as endeavours in the forefront of it, do not deserve to be compared with a marketing event, which is concerned with making business, exchanging material goods and with speculations on prices. Concerning the central issue, it has to be stated that the invitation for women to give homilies during Holy Mass, which is implied by such documents, violates the law and the discipline of the church.
**As regards the contents: If the content of the service of the word and of the proclamation of the Gospel are aimed exclusively at women, this contradicts the instruction of Christ who wants that through him “all might believe” (Jn 1,7). **
KATH.NET: What do you say to the fact that in 20 parishes of the Diocese of Linz the official church readings are not used any longer,** because they have been replaced by “Women’s Pericopes”? **
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The replacement of official church readings or the introduction of “alternatives” by “Women’s Pericopes” is a selection of the Gospel, an arbitrary human reduction of the word of God. If even certain texts and writings are screened and deemed to be unsuitable, then we are in danger of reducing the Gospel to certain “suitable” texts. As a matter of fact, this is the rejection of the authority of the canon of the Holy Scriptures. By this we see the revolutionary potential that is intrinsic in such individualisms. Furthermore such regulations are strictly reserved to the Holy See and within the scope of the law to the diocesan bishop.
pb]KATH.NET: One of the “Women’s Sermons” contains the following text: “We begin this service. In the name of the divine strength that has created all the beauty of our world. In the name of Jesus Christ, who has opened our eyes for the love in ourselves and around us. In the name of the Holy Ghost, the divine ruach. She is joining us and keeping us together.” What is your reaction?
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The aforementioned formula for the opening of the service is the product of an extreme feminism and is watering down the Christian faith in a triune God to a surrogate of feminine vital forces. Furthermore the faith in Jesus Christ the Saviour is changed beyond recognition. This formula can be read as the commitment to an immanentistic post-Christian faith.
kath.net/detail.php?id=9767
The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, comments on the peculiar liturgical practices in the Diocese of Linz. On February 19, Arinze wrote in a letter to a Catholic of the diocese that was disclosed to kath.net: “This Congregation is already informed regarding most of the abuses You listed and is doing what it can to help remove them.”
KATH.NET was told by priests of the Diocese of Linz that His Excellency Maximilian Aichern, Bishop of Linz, is most likely informed on the liturgical abuses in his diocese. **The impression of the priests is that the bishop does not recognise these abuses as such, but merely as the encounter of “differing theological views” which all are justifiable. **
kath.net/detail.php?id=9851
The dicastry will investigate the cases you referenced
Linz (www.kath.net)
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will examine the liturgical abuses in the Diocese of Linz. This follows from an official letter to a Catholic in Upper Austria, which he received via the Apostolic Nunciature in Austria. **The dicastry will investigate the cases you referenced, is the answer from Rome to his inquiry. **
KATH.NET learned that several priests of the Diocese of Linz are planning to write a letter to the Vatican in order to ask for an visitation of their diocese. In the meantime complaints on liturgical particularities in many parishes of the diocese are piling up at the nunciature of Austria.
kath.net/detail.php?id=9976