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After months of intense speculation, Pope Benedict XVI has eased restrictions on the Catholic Church's traditional Latin Mass - a move that could raise controversy both within the Church, and in its interfaith relations, given the fact that the old rites include a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews...
...called a motu proprio, or personal initiative of the Pontiff, was made public Saturday along with an explanatory letter to the world's bishops acknowledging the recent "news reports" and "confusion" about the lifting of restrictions for access to the old rite. Known as the Tridentine rite - delivered in Latin with the priest usually facing the altar, his back to the congregation - the old Mass (though never banned) had effectively been replaced, following the mid-1960s reforms of the Second Vatican Council, by a liturgy recited in the vernacular. Some Vatican insiders caution that Benedict's new ruling will simply...
...some of us hoped for, and there are many legitimate criticisms of the Bush Administration's performance. But, in fact, despite the gloom and doom from critics left and right (including, occasionally, me), the world seems to present the usual mixed bag of difficult problems and heartening developments. In Latin America, there's Hugo Chávez eroding democracy in Venezuela--but there's also pretty good news from the democracies in Mexico and Brazil. In Europe, the U.S. fares badly in public opinion polls--but the people of Germany and France have elected the relatively pro-American Angela Merkel...
...year old native of Burlington, Vt., Crawford was a sixth-year graduate student in Berkeley’s Classics Department. She taught a course in the department, Latin 100, “Republican Prose,†during the spring semester...
...Harvard, Crawford was active within the WHRB radio station, a member of a church choir during the spring of her senior year, a Phi Beta Kappa member and a Hoopes Prize recipient. She also presented the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises for her graduating class...