Smell The Fear -- Liberal Catholics Anxiously Await the "Reform of the Reform"
For years, even decades, the heterodox wing of the Catholic Church has run roughshod over the Liturgy. In parishes all over the country dictatorial authority over the celebration of the Mass has been handed over to priests of dubious education and aliegance as well as the dreaded "pastoral assistant" (as nebulous a term as I have ever encountered). Workshops have been formed in nearly every diocese with the intent to "educate" those same "pastoral assistants" and the liturgy comitties they control in the theories and techniques they would need to "empower" their parishes with "energetic" and "innovative" and above all else, "inclusive" Eucharistic liturgies that were guaranteed to "enliven" their previously hum-drum parish "communities".Enough of the quotation marks! Now that new instructions from the Vatican have been issued and more promised to be on the way, Heterodox Catholics from coast to coast are beginning to fear the loss of their ill-conceived liturgical powers. As the first whiffs of liturgical sanity begin to drift across the theological landscape, they mourn the potential loss of the license they have enjoyed and abused for far too long. I wait in gleeful anticipation for the "real" changes that are sure to follow...and the grinding and gnashing of teeth that is just as likely to happen.
But enough of my snide comments. Read a sample at the following link.
NCR Writer's Desk: September 12, 2005
Labels: Catholic, Catholicism
posted by Norm Johnson @ 9:13 AM
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