[sinkspur]

Inculturation received a very strong boost from the recently-concluded bishops' synod on the Eucharist.

There are always strings involved, but the Vatican realizes it is better to get in front of something like this.

Adoption of indigenous practices will continue, with out without Vatican approval, so why not approve, and verify?

[Veto!]

Good to hear that the Vatican is open to this move. I'm sort of a Christian Hindu.....the Hindu rituals include incense, chants in Sanscrit not entirely different from the Gregorian in Latin, supplied my need for such things when the Church gave them up. Much more to this, of course, but just the externals were enough to get me into the door.

In fact, having quit the Church after college, and having NEVER believed that Jesus ever actually lived in spite of K-college Catholic schools, the only thing that reawakened my interest in Christianity was a meeting with a Hindu guru a friend dragged me to kicking and screaming.

He was such a spiritual powerhouse, the first words that came into my mind when I met him were: "If he's this good, maybe there was a Jesus."

Have you read any of Bede Griffiths books? A Brit Catholic monk who spent decades in India. I saw a video of him and was quite impressed with his holiness. I'm ordering some of his books from Amazon

[Conservative til I die]

Gee, what a shock. Deacon Sinkspur embraces heterodoxy. I can almost see Sink liturgically dancing (barefoot) down to the altar (er, communal eating table) with a big bowl of incense, chanting "Ommmm" all the way. Very hep. What's wrong with Catholics being Catholic?

Why the need to incorporate rituals at odds with Catholicism into the Mass? And frankly, the reason the Indians are calling for this is absolutely cowardly. They want to be more Hindu so the Hindus won't be mad? So if a bunch of Muslims move in next door to my parish and say I should be calling God "Allah" then I should start doing so? Whatever.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Adoption of indigenous practices will continue, with out without Vatican approval, so why not approve, and verify?

Sure. So long as the rituals adopted aren't Jewish. After all, J*sus is the whole point of the "old testament," right, Sinkspur?

That's also why the stories of the "old testament" are fairy tales and those of the "new" are literally true. You people deserve the "J*sus seminar," and I hope they give it to you with both barrels.