Day: April 3, 2011
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Priests and the New Missal: An opportunity to be embraced, not a burden to be borne
by Bishop Edward K. Braxton, Belleville, IL. “The People of God have the right to experience the liturgy as the Church wants them to experience it. If we have personal opinions and criticisms of the translation, it will not be helpful if we spread those criticisms from the pulpit and in our informal comments.”
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Do the baptized have any rights to the liturgy of the Church?
All Catholics have, at all times, the right to receive what the Church wishes to give them. By indicating it may support priests in boycotts [of the new translation], the NCPA now appears unable to deny that it or some of its members will effectively encourage a program of disenfranchising ordinary Catholics of their Baptismal…