Tag: Summorum Pontificum
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Cardinal Meisner on celebrating pontifical High Mass in the old form
“As archbishop I have the ministry of unity. Thus, the ‘ordinary form’ is the standard for me.”
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Perpetually 1962?
“According to [the April 2011 instruction from Ecclesia Dei], liturgical decrees issued since 1962 which are not compatible with the liturgical books then in use are not binding on Tridentine celebrations.” It’s perpetually 1962 for the Extraordinary Form, in other words.
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“Universae ecclesiae” to be released…
And so, on May 13, 2011 the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” will release a document…
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Liturgy under Benedict XVI
Some claim that the pope is undoing the Second Vatican Council and forty-five years of progress in implementing the Council. Others claim that he is working to implement faithfully the vision of the Second Vatican Council, which means undoing the mistakes and misinterpretations of the past forty-five years and going back to what the Council…
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The Jews and the (readmitted) old liturgy
It is irresponsible to promote the older forms while these problems remain unresolved… Anti-Jewish liturgical texts are unacceptable today, and will be a continuing source of confusion and embarrassment for the Church if the difficulties they present are not addressed in a straightforward and comprehensive manner.
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Greater divisions than ever since Summorum Pontificum
Matias Augé, former consulter to the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, states that Pope Benedict’s readmission of the celebration of the pre-Vatican II liturgy has not contributed to that “interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church” which the Pope had hoped for, but rather “the divisions have been deepened even more.”
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Summorum Pontificum news
The Spanish bishops’ conference has pulled from its website an article because it was thought too critical of the Pope’s motu proprio Summorum Pontifum.