Word: vernacular
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...Vatican Council resumes deliberations. Three papal encyclicals are issued: Cui Bono? (on industrialization in underdeveloped countries); Sic Semper Tyrannis (on Castro's hiccoughs); and Atinlay Oseslay (on the use of the vernacular in the Mass). The New York Yankees, having won the World Series, become a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
...West German Foreign Office, Hallstein is possessed of formidable erudition, but no one in his U.S. audiences last week had much difficulty in understanding what he was saying. Captured at Cherbourg during World War II service as a Wehrmacht lieutenant, Hallstein polished up his American vernacular in a P.W. camp in Mississippi. Conceded by all hands to be a skilled negotiator, he is a party-shunning bachelor who devotes twelve hours a day to his job and is held by many to be a dull fellow. But he inspires deep respect in his subordinates-who meticulously address...
...heart of the crisis is Latin, the language of the Mass and the language of the council. In exquisite Latin, some prelates have been arguing for the introduction of the vernacular, while others-such as Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles-have in halting Latin painfully defended the ancient language. The arguments of those who favor keeping Latin stress unity, tradition, and the great precision that it provides. Said militant Latinist Francis Cardinal Spellman: "No matter where you go on the face of the earth, the Latin Mass is a sign of Catholic unity." Other supporters argue, according to the official...
Although introduction of the vernacular is the most important change proposed by the reformers, many bishops also want to shed some of the "accidental accretions" that were incorporated into the liturgy, in some cases as much as a thousand years after Christ. The reformers argue that some of the symbolism and ceremony that was meaningful to a 12th century Roman is lost on a 20th century African. Mission priests have asked to use more native music and dances as part of the rite; an American liturgist even suggested the use of Negro spirituals in some services. "The Gregorian chant...
...Papal Nuncio to France, John seemed to be sympathetic to the worker-priest movement, despite strong Vatican disapproval; after he became Pope, John issued an order that killed the experiment for good. In talks with audiences, John has sometimes spoken favorably of translating parts of the Mass into the vernacular; yet last winter he issued a strongly worded Apostolic Constitution that forbade priests to write against the use of Latin in the liturgy. "If John is a liberal who is simply making concessions to the Vatican," complains the editor of a Catholic diocesan weekly in the U.S., "give...