[ninenot]

Jesuitical focus on rubrics is infantile, IMO

[With a great sense of irony, Sinky brings up Jesuits in the same sentence as 'rubrics.']

The point, again, my dear Sink, is that Sklba's making this stuff up. I will concede that there may be some 5 or 10 individuals in this Archdiocese who have a fixation--that is, they are pathological on the subject--but S. wants us to take a different lesson: laissez-faire.

He's creating a straw man to knock down ANY rational discussion.

When he throws the "heresy" bomb, it's comparable to using "Hitler" on an internet post.

[B Knotts]

Despite sinkspur's reputation, I'm actually somewhat surprised that he would defend such a ridiculous argument.

There are no significant group of people who believe that the rubrics are saving works or "magic."

I frankly question whether there are any such people, but you can just about always find one oddball somewhere.

This bishop is slandering people who are simply trying to realize their right to proper liturgy. It's frankly despicable that a bishop would right such a thing.