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Commenting on the renewed effort to centralize power over the liturgy, Müller argued that the requirement of absolute obedience to ecclesiastical authority in such matters is “pastorally self-defeating” and “a frightful example of theological incompetence to distinguish between the […] substance of the sacrament and the richness of forms of liturgical rites.”

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Ping

[dangus]

Muller used to be thought of as a CINO loosey-goosey type. When you have a cardinal like him angrily denouncing a Pope, you know the Pope is demonspawn.

[Brian Griffin]

I suspect many parishioners find Latin mass soul-soothing.

The church should try to provide such masses in so much as staffing allows.

[Montana_Sam]

There’s a story making the rounds that Pope Francis fancied himself as a ‘communist’.
If that is true, then his propensity for dictatorial edicts is in keeping.
He seems to be a ‘small mind; small tent’ kind of guy. And he has surrounded himself with advisors who seem as venal and totalitarian.
Wonder what St. Peter thinks about this joker?