[ebb tide]

It occurs to me that there something important that needs saying. As you know, Cardinal Marx said that Magnum Principium frees up episcopal conferences and makes Liturgiam Authenticam a dead letter. (see here) Cardinal Sarah publicly disagreed with Marx on this point — and now Pope Francis is transmitting the signal that he is taking the side of Marx rather than Sarah, just as he has endorsed Cardinal Kasper’s position on communion for the divorced and remarried. In this way, the Pope is making it clearer all the time that he essentially stands with the German hierarchy, known to be one of the most liberal in the world, on the hot-button questions of the day.

[JerryBlackwell]

As Pope BXVI said before his forced retirement: the future Church will be smaller and more vibrant. Left out of his commentary was the fact that the Church will be more traditional and not likely associated with Rome or the existing hierarchy.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I wish Jesus had said something specifically about bongo drums.

[Fedora]

Pope Francis is transmitting the signal that he is taking the side of Marx

Bishop or Karl?

[GreyFriar]

This pontifical sponsored/inspired secularization of the Catholic Church is worse than the changes of Vatican II. And I do remember the occasional “folk Mass” that was held at St. Joseph’s College of Indiana that I attended. It was interestingly different, but happened only once or twice a month at most. This was during the latter half of the 1960’s.

[ReaganGeneration2]

I object to folk Masses on the grounds that any folk music is just awful music.