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Remember Bishop Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin?\u00a0 He told his diocese that communion under both kinds would be limited to \u201cthe Chrism Mass, the Feast of Corpus Christi, … the bride and groom at a Nuptial Mass, and [to] those so allergic to wheat that they cannot tolerate even low-gluten hosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now he has written a column in his diocesan newspaper <\/a>on beauty and truth in the liturgy.<\/p>\n

Like many essays of a similar stripe, this one starts out positive but turns to the negative.\u00a0\u00a0 After a quick swipe at Lady Gaga \u2013 and I can\u2019t imagine anyone wanting to bring her work into the liturgy \u2013 the column zooms in on the Marty Haugen song, “All Are Welcome.”\u00a0 You can find its lyrics online, but the bit that the bishop finds offensive is the chorus:<\/p>\n

All are welcome, all are welcome,
\nAll are welcome in this place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He says to us that this cannot possibly be “appropriate-for-liturgical-use” because the chorus is not true and hence not beautiful.<\/p>\n

And why is it untrue?\u00a0 In Bishop Morlino\u2019s words, because \u201cPeople who have little interest in doing God\u2019s Will don\u2019t fit at the liturgy.\u201d\u00a0 Very well, then, let us bring back the ostiarii<\/em>, in case someone who has little interest in doing God\u2019s will turns up in the narthex.\u00a0 Have these visitors committed sexual impurity?\u00a0 Have they even thought<\/em> about doing so?\u00a0 Out with them.\u00a0 Has this man called his neighbor “fool”?\u00a0 There\u2019s the exit door.\u00a0\u00a0 Has this woman been greedy, loving money more than she loves her neighbor?\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry, not welcome here.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the saintly Bishop and a few of his true followers \u2013 a very few \u2013 can celebrate Mass on their own, perhaps rewriting Haugen\u2019s words:<\/p>\n

Few are welcome, few are welcome,
\nFew are welcome in this place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it\u2019s not only unworthy humans whom Bishop Morlino wants to exclude.\u00a0 He continues:\u00a0 “… certainly, by their own choosing, the poor souls who suffer in Hell for all eternity are not welcome. Those are simple, but true facts.”<\/p>\n

No false facts here!\u00a0 Apparently the threat of an errant lost soul weighs heavily on the Bishop, because a commenter reported that he had repeated this theme in a recent speech.\u00a0\u00a0 Until I read his article I had supposed that Hell was a sufficiently stout prison to keep any soul from escaping.\u00a0 But perhaps CS Lewis was right in his speculation about a refrigerium<\/em> (see his The Great Divorce<\/em>).\u00a0 We could post signs at church doors: “No sinners!\u00a0 No lost souls!”\u00a0 That would keep the riff-raff away.<\/p>\n

A chilling Jansenism is creeping over the Church. It seems to begin with people who celebrate “for you and for many” in the new, bungled translation; goes on with bishops who want to exclude erring politicians from Communion while turning a blind eye to us sinners in the pews; and continues with nonsense like Bishop Morlino\u2019s essay.<\/p>\n

If anyone manages to sneak out of Hell and turns up in my parish church, I shall welcome them warmly.\u00a0 And although my weekly musical diet at Mass is Byrd and Mozart, Palestrina and Buxtehude, the next time I am given an opportunity to sing “All Are Welcome” I will do so with vigor and conviction.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Day is a consultant and writer; he is also the chairman of the parish council of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception (Farm Street) in central London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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