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Jon T. Staff ’10, the UC’s former SAC chair, said that considering the outcome, the Council was “probably not proactive enough” in the decision-making process for the J-term.
Transparency of the decision-making process would have facilitated UC involvement, Flores said.
“The problem is more of the system than either the decision makers or the UC,” she added.
Founded by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to oppose the 1960s reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the Society became a breakaway movement when four bishops were ordained in 1988 in defiance of Pope John Paul II, and Lefebvre and his four new bishops were promptly excommunicated. The already...
Benedict's decision in 2007 to allow wider access to the traditional Tridentine Mass - said in Latin with the priest facing the altar rather than his flock - means that liturgical disputes with the Lefebvre followers have basically been resolved. "What remain are doctrinal questions that can only be clarified through...