[gubamyster]

Feeling the heat ?

[gubamyster]

ping

[John Locke]

Translation: showing more respect for the Body and Blood of Christ than for the local bishop is a mortal sin - in the eyes of the bishop.

[Mad Dawg]

Rend your hears and not your garments, sez me.

The mere fact that my bishop may be a total dweeb does not make my obeying him necessarily wrong or disobedience a virtue.

Actually I think the current Bishop of Richmnd may turn out to be okay, but that's neither here nor there.

If the Church has the authority to put out the G.I.R.M. and as long as it does not require me to do something immoral, seems to me I ought to do what it says.

Mind you, one of the hopes I had about becoming Catholic was that I could get away from this kind of debate. But my thinking is that most of us are wilfull and enamoured of having our own way, and that generally in matters of moral indifference it is preferable to do the silly ass thing others ask of us than to indulge our frowardness.

If I waited for everyone to be as brilliant, tasteful, pious, and just generally as wonderful as I before I did what they said, I'd never obey anyone but Jesus, and He'd have to show some ID.

[NYer]

The LA TIMES, Sunday, May 28, 2006, story about the liturgical practices at St. Mary’s by the Sea stated that the determination of some parishioners to kneel during the Agnus Dei at Mass was a ‘mortal sin’ because it violated the liturgical norm (to stand) of the province of the USCCB Region XI (CA, Hawaii and Nevada)

Link to original article: A Ban on Kneeling? Some Catholics Won't Stand for It

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[Eternally-Optimistic]

the quote "Fr. Tran regrets any concern or hurt caused by the misuse of the term “mortal sin” in this context."
There is only one meaning of the term "mortal sin". It really can not be brushed off as a mis interpretation.