[Desdemona]

I guess the people who wrote the NO didn't want to do anything that would keep Satan away.

That's actually more or less the case. There isn't much mention of Satan at all. It's like someone took an exacto knife and just carved Satan out of everything, the prayers, the readings, the homilies.

[maryz]

There isn't much mention of Satan at all. It's like someone took an exacto knife and just carved Satan out of everything, the prayers, the readings, the homilies.

Well,they had to take something out to make room for all the self-congratulatory stuff. My parish, which is fairly conservative, is bad enough; hard to imagine how bad Kerry's Paulist Center is!