Agenda of "reform of the reform" (Most Catholics are not aware of this big picture)
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Reversing the liturgical field Benedict starting new liturgical movement Anatomy of a Reform |
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Is eliminating Communion on the hand the next change to the Mass? Pope wants everyone to kneel and receive Communion on tongue: 2010-05-26 announcement from Vatican This site extreme...but scroll down for more info This site also will cause groans No more special ministers of Communion No more lay people - especially women - doing
anything on the sanctuary Mass to be said in Latin according to the old
rite, the priest not facing the people Video with Cardinal Burke - it reveals more clearly where the institutional church is heading and what can be expected from Rome in the forseeable future Concelebration? Concelebration to be restricted? - Cardinal Burke Strict Vatican control of all Catholic organizations - especially universities Strict Vatican control of all appointments - especially bishops A return to medieval vestments and clothing Bishops' Conferences - given great
responsibility by Vatican 2 - to be kept powerless. Censorship of all Catholic publications and websites A new translation of the Lectionary....a very fundamentalist translation....coming soon....has been described as "a disaster" by one Australian archbishop Vatican control = European control of the
church Ecumenism to mean "Catholics are right,
everyone else is wrong". The recent controversy about a new English
translation of the Mass Liturgical translation at crossroads New translation a betrayal of Vatican II? The
new translation - many articles Does Jesus want us to go back to the old Latin
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Use of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to re-interpret the documents of Vatican 2 |
Footnote re China:
Vatican
& Beijing: failure to communicate
Benedict's 2007 letter put the relationship car in reverse.....it was too
strong. It was the beginning of a down-turn in relations.
It caused the Chinese government to call a hastily arranged meeting of Chinese bishops
for a
"toe the line" session.
I remember asking one experienced China hand what he thought of the letter on
the day it was published. His one sound re-action: "Yuck".
The
full letter + follow-up
note to try to "spin" the letter
Matteo Ricci would
never have written letters like these!
Benedict's hard-line approach to everyone and everything has alienated not just
Catholics,
but Protestants, Muslims, the Chinese Government etc
John W