Charles,   I located the video link to the fall meeting of the USCCB and watched portions of it.     One session dealing with the new missal translation,   both English and the forthcoming Spanish versions,   caught my attention.     Various bishops had been asking technical questions about implementation when finally,   lastly,   Bishop Rosazza was recognized for his question.     He made a heartfelt plea that the Spanish translation be allowed to keep/use the words “por todos”   (for all)   in the consecration.     He got a ‘no’ and the associated Rome-mandated yada,   yada.     To which he responded “they imposed this on us… we don’t even have a choice”   …and his words sadly trailed off as a murmur of chuckles,   then laughter,   emerged from his brother bishops.     They thought this was funny?   …pleading in behalf of the people and the prayers of the Mass?
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Something about that picture broke my heart.     There stood a rather frail appearing elderly bishop,   a totally unpretentious man of the people who until recently rode his bicycle to get around town,   being brushed-off by the other bishops as he pleaded for continuing to pray words in Spanish that include everyone…   not just “many” or some.     Unfortunately,   the English is already a done-deal…     I felt tears running down my face as a terrible sadness washed over me…   that video clip represented the “reform of the reform” direction of our church…   Benedict’s “leaner church” leadership in action,   even when discussing the communal prayers of God’s people…   or perhaps now only some of the people,   if words have any meaning at all.     That is what we are now mandated to pray…   something that sounds like Calvinistic predestination — or an exclusive cloistered church turned-in upon itself proclaiming no salvation outside of our exclusive club.     At least some of us cannot give assent to such a prayer within our hearts no matter how much techno-speak theological spin is applied in attempt to justify it…   and apparently,   neither can Bishop Rosazza,   one of the last of a vanishing breed of pastor-bishop.     Most of the rest are now Vatican yes-men eagerly climbing the corporate career ladder.     In another five or ten years will there even be a place in the “leaner” Church for those perhaps deemed not to be part of the “many” or ‘some’ for whom Jesus shed his blood?
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Bishop Rosazza was one of five bishops who,   in the 80s,   crafted the bishops’ document on social justice and the economy — the same document that Archbishop Chaput recently dismissed as something that the bishops should not have done since they “have no expertise in economics”   (but since when does lack of expertise on any topic stop them?).     That comment came on the heels of his excuse for why the bishops couldn’t make time in their meeting agenda to discuss the injustice of rampant economic disparity in our country.     Would that current Church leaders had as much interest in living-out the gospel in the real world trenches of life as they do in obtuse ceremonial,   cappa magnas and fancy-sounding words.     Perhaps it has become more politically expedient to just sound "holy" rather than to actually be a holy Christ-like people?
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Let us know how it goes when Vatican power-brokers are done tinkering with the Spanish and impose that on your congregation.
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