Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latin American-or indeed any-standards, the Mexican peso has been a remarkably stable currency. Since 1954 its exchange rate has not budged from 12.5 to the dollar. Mexicans were understandably astonished, therefore, when Treasury Minister Mario Ramon Beteta suddenly appeared on their TV screens last week to announce a change. From now on, he said, the peso would float freely-in other words, its value would be determined by supply and demand...
...decade ago, a pious Roman Catholic Mass, just the sort of loyal demonstration to gladden the heart of a Pope distressed by the faithlessness of the modern world. The worshipers had come early to the auditorium in the northern French city of Lille; while a choir chanted medieval Latin hymns, the congregation quickly filled 5,700 seats and spilled out into the aisles. Then the celebrant of the Mass entered, a pink-cheeked, white-haired priest who moved solemnly up the aisle behind a quartet of acolytes bearing lighted candles...
...subversion." As a result, charged the prelate, "The rite of Mass today is a bastard rite. The sacraments today are bastard sacraments. We want to have prayers like our ancestors. We want to keep the Catholic faith." After an hour of such remonstrations, Lefebvre began the Mass in Latin, according to the four-century-old Tridentine rite, now superseded and banned by Rome...
Despised Reforms. For Lefebvre and his followers, the new Mass promulgated by Pope Paul in 1969 is a symbol of the changes embodied in the reforms of the Second Vatican Council-reforms that they despise. Among other objections, Lefebvre contends that the use of vernacular languages instead of Latin has broken down Catholic unity. In addition to the Mass, Lefebvre demands a return to the "true Bible," the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome, instead of dangerous "ecumenical" versions. He excoriates progressive interpretations of church doctrine. "If I had done earlier what they teach priests in seminaries...
...rite takes its name from the Latin Tridentum, for Trent, Italy, site of the 16th century counterreformation church council that authorized a newly uniform Mass ritual. It is the Tridentine rite that is forbidden, not Latin. The original version of the new rite, from which all vernacular versions are translated, is, in fact, in Latin...