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...another avenue for expression. And I'm trying to give others the opportunity who have had the same experience as Ireland to come out with it too. We're all fighting each other, but we have one enemy in common. I say it's the Roman Empire and the Vatican...
Nevertheless, they all merit some amount of discussion, which should include greater openness from the Vatican. Sinead's point is not that Pope John Paul II is fully responsible for all the world's problems, but that he, and the church, are partially responsible for some of them. Because so many people disagree with that so virulently, Sinead felt she had to do something drastic to get their attention. Evidently, it worked. Ezra Perlman...
Jesuit Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report, remarks that fellow conservatives have worried for years about "revisionist pressure groups operating on the new English translation for their own ends." When the Vatican first gave permission in 1963, parishes clamored for rituals in English. Its pedestrian style aside, the current English Mass was prepared before liturgists began to champion gender-inclusive language...
...translation since 1982, the liturgical commission sent bishops a 154-page booklet of proposals last April, asking them to % respond by June 1. Mahony missed that snap deadline, but in July he sent eight pages of complaints to Archbishop Pilarczyk. Mahony dispatched copies of his broadside to Vatican officials and several dozen like-minded bishops...
Mahony wants a special conference where 30 to 40 bishops can review what he calls "problem sections." Without such surgery, opponents imply, the new Mass may fail to win the necessary approval from the bishops conferences in English-speaking nations -- and the Vatican, which must also give its blessing. Mahony's conservatism is in tune with headquarters, and Rome would doubtless be relieved if he and his allies succeed in their resistance. "These gender-sensitive issues always seem to start in the U.S., but the U.S. does not represent the entire church," says a Vatican official -- a view that...