[Onelifetogive]

Authentic Catholic liturgy must not be transformed by or confused with "the pantheon of spirit and divinities of African cults," he insisted.

The Catholic Church has a long and proud history of incorporating "indiginous" rites and practices into Catholic practice.

When the Pope performed a mass in Mexico City a few years ago, the alter was designed to resemble an pagan Aztec temple mound.

Prayer beads were adopted from other religions.

When you go down this path, there will, always be some who want to go further. There is a movement in South Africa led by a Catholic Bishop to incorporate "animal sacrifice" into the liturgy.

It's a lot like passing trivial laws contrary to the Constitution. Some people will always want to go further.

[ninenot]

The Catholic Church has a long and proud history of incorporating "indiginous" rites and practices into Catholic practice.

Yes--but not ALL of them.

Further, it would be more accurate to state that the Church has "baptized" certain elements and then utilized them in her liturgy, because that's closer to reality.

Liturgical "dance" won't be 'baptized.'

[ninenot]

It would also be useful if we could get rid of the Sesame Steet and Joni Mitchell mixture of "music"---but we will have to wait, I suppose, for those who are still living in the 1960's to retire from active pastor and Bishop appointments.