Posted on 08/26/2009 9:18:18 AM PDT by Steelfish
Vatican Denies Liturgical Reform Reports
Author: James Martin, S.J.
I'll let you make up your mind what, exactly, is going on. First the story from CNS:
Vatican official downplays report of planned liturgical reforms
By John Thavis Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican spokesman downplayed a report that major liturgical reforms are being considered by Pope Benedict XVI. "At the moment, there are no institutional proposals for a modification of the liturgical books currently in use," the spokesman, Father Ciro Benedettini, said Aug. 24.
He was responding to a report that a document with proposed liturgical modifications, including a curb on the practice of receiving Communion in the hand, had been sent to the pope last April by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.
(Excerpt) Read more at americamagazine.org ...
American magazine — I really don’t believe them.
Hope you are right!
My bishop and my priest both think it is happening they are talking about how to introduce it when it comes about, whether slowly or all at once.
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