[wideawake]

The Tridentine vestments do not have to be as elaborate as they generally are - they just have to be nicer than the Hindu streetwear favored by too many NO celebrants.

As far as the baptismal font is concerned, the Second Vatican Council stated that both laving the forehead and immersion were valid methods of baptizing.

As usual, the churchwreckers have gotten gung-ho on immersion and like to claim that the Second Vatican Council requires immersion to be available, therefore it is essential to install a Zen-garden style "babbling brook" in the church so immersions can be practiced if anyone so desires and so the water in the immersion pool will not stagnate.

All that is nonsense.

[k omalley]

A parish I belonged to a few years back got rid of the baptismal font in front of the church and put an immersion pool in the back of the church. As a result, what was supposed to be a "community celebration" was visible only to the people in the last row. When we had the font in front of the church everyone could see and be a part of the baptism and the joy of the family. In effect, the liturgical and architectual nazis created something which was totally impractical and which the majority of the people present could not participate in.

[Thorondir]

Hindu streetwear? At the NO abominations here in Tucson they go for the enviromentalist druid look.

It goes along with the feminazi, enviromentalist druid prayers.