[sinkspur]

Did you forget me.

I didn't forget you.

There is a group on the forum I call the foundation. That is, you stay above the NO-vs-Tridentine fray for the most part and focus on the most important aspects of our faith: doctrine, Mass Readings, postings from the Catechism, and updates from the Vatican on the Pope's itinerary and speeches.

That group includes you, sandyeggo, NYer, american colleen, and, on occasion, ninenot, and others whose names don't jump out at me right now.

On occasion, I post an article or column from THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER. Now, the Reporter is one end of the spectrum, and the Wanderer is on the other. The articles I post are innocuous, usually John Allen's commentary from Rome and one or two others that would seem to be of interest.

What do I get? Two or three responses (even though more Vatican officials talk to him than to any other American journalist stationed in Rome and he breaks some important stories as well), or, more likely, I'm questioned on why I would dare post something from the NCR on this hallowed forum.

I'm a mainstream Catholic. My parish follows the GIRM, we don't "experiment" with the liturgy, and I happen to like the Novus Ordo.

Sometimes I feel as out of place here as if I were posting on DU.

[drstevej]

***I happen to like the Novus Ordo.***

Guess that makes you a Protestant from what I read on these threads. Welcome to the Errant Brotherhood.

[Salvation]

**Sometimes I feel as out of place here as if I were posting on DU.**

This is sad; we need not feel so ostracized. I guess we can only ask if we have contributed to this problem.

And I think your analysis is correct. There are those who post and stay above the "mud-wrestling" pool of NO vs. Traditional Latin Rite.

[nickcarraway]

It often surprises me that you like the NCReporter, because although you are not conservative liturgically, politcally you are. And the NCReporter is way to the left. And many of them seem to think politics is the only important part of religion.

[nickcarraway]

Also you should not that NCReporter-types are not pro-N.O. They take advantage of certain characteristics of the N.O. to create a Mass that is not a Novus Ordo Mass, even if no one calls them on it. If you look at it objectively, these people are much more anti-N.O. then any traditionalist.