We hope to release the Missal for implementation on the First Sunday of Advent of 2011 and should be able to do so if the final text is in our hands well before the end of 2010. However, the extraordinary confusion of late about the state and status of the text of the new Roman Missal suggests that all publication plans are at best hopeful predictions.
Archive for August 13th, 2010
Jennifer Sleeman , 80, asked people to support a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass because of what she believes is the church’s unfair treatment of women. Mrs Sleeman — who lives in Clonakilty, County Cork — said the church had effectively been treating women as second class citizens.
The rights of girls and Catholic lay faithful to carry out certain roles on the altar are not prescribed as “rights” within the Church, according to the Church’s top legal authority, Archbishop Raymond Burke.