The new language found in the Third Edition has, too often, become a stumbling block for many of us, both priests and laity, who find the language demeaning, with its emphasis on human unworthiness. I find this petition to be altogether vague. And leave it at that.īut as I say, I signed. It’d be best to focus on the poor quality and awkward English, and the need for a process (faithful to the Second Vatican Council) that is decentralized and allows for legitimate inculturation. (I know myself – and dare I add, my confreres – too well.)Īlso, on tactical grounds I think it probably closes doors when you tell Church authorities that their theology is wrong. Sorry, but I’m too Augustinian to go along with that. But I suspect they mean things like the allegedly negative anthropology of the new Missal that puts down humans. the seemingly Unitarian collect for Trinity Sunday), count me in. If they mean mistranslations that falsify the Latin and in some cases suggest heresy (eg. This petition says a bit too much (for me) about theological problems in the new missal. But that’s probably a hang-up of academics – just get 6 of us around a table to wordsmith a statement and watch the hours go by while the first phrase of the first sentence is perfected. With just a few misgivings, some things I would have worded differently here and there. O’Malley is on the “team of eight” advising Pope Francis, so of course we want his ear. Over at Misguided Missal there is a petition to Cardinal O’Malley about the missal you can sign.
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