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This is a big theme with the modernists. I first encountered that emphasis in a required sacramental theology course at a Catholic [sic] college in the late 60s. We read all the stalwarts of Catholic theology, you know, Harvey Cox, Bishop Robinson, Paul Tillich, Teilhard. What an awful, awful course that was!

Anyway, that emphasis goes with the holding-hands, parish life coordinator, orans position for the laity, community-community-community! constellation.

BTW, they got rid of that professor the year after I graduated. Seems one student that year was the niece of a bishop (quite conservative and orthodox) and she told him about the course.

Anyway, that emphasis goes with the holding-hands, parish life coordinator, orans position for the laity, community-community-community! constellation.

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Amen! That junk makes me want to scream. I am so sick of these modernists.

To answer the person quoted:
Yes, I want the priest’s back to me, and, yes, I want to hear him say the Mass.

When the priest’s back is to me, we are both praising God together instead of communicating with one another over the “dinner table” that the sacred altar has now become. When the priest is “saying” the Mass, he is saying it in my name. The congregation doesn’t even say everything the priest says in the current monstrosity we call the Mass. The priest has a special role.

And as for you, maryz, stalk away, my FRiend! :-)