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To: Aquinasfan
Apparently the pope is giving priests permission to celebrate the Tridentine mass, regardless of the wishes of their bishops.

Yes, I think you're right. If the Bishops have any loopholes with which to deny a priest saying the Latin Mass, they will use it.

On the other hand, how soon before we start reading about abuses in the Latin Masses?

The whole thing is a big mess. Is the Motu Propio even the solution to the mess?

Isn't it more that we have a whole mentality existing in the Church today which obscures real Catholic doctrine, practices, behaviours by the use of all the novelties that have become institutionalized?

140 posted on 06/28/2007 8:52:32 AM PDT by Smocker
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To: Smocker
On the other hand, how soon before we start reading about abuses in the Latin Masses?

Ha! I was thinking the same thing. I'd rather not think about it.

Isn't it more that we have a whole mentality existing in the Church today which obscures real Catholic doctrine, practices, behaviours by the use of all the novelties that have become institutionalized?

Yes, but every battle counts. The abuses accreted incrementally, so we can push them back incrementally.

158 posted on 06/28/2007 10:20:26 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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