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Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...
...dispel any lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...104th Street for the season's joyfullest noise. Mama I Want to Sing is a "story in concert," in which a disc jockey narrator spins out the tale of a young girl who dreams of becoming a pop singer. Her father is a Harlem minister, her mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams leads the Reach...
...best novelists at work today, most notably the British, have satirized Freudian idealists and fools as ruthlessly as they attacked all the older stupidities. Lasch, however, might not find this literature entirely to his taste: a recurrent suggestion in these works is that the attempt to mix "modernist" with "traditionalist" values is at best messy and funny and at worst misguided and fatal. Iris Murdoch, to name only the most intelligent of these writers, has made a career of throwing Plato, Christ and Freud together like roosters in a ring...
...foreign policy had been fundamentally flawed, who characterized the Soviets as international outlaws with whom civilized nations could not do business and who vowed to re-establish American superiority over the U.S.S.R. The Reagan of Sunday night explicitly disavowed the quest for superiority and talked much more like a traditionalist who believed in building on the foundations laid by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, yes, Jimmy Carter...