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To: Wonder Warthog

I stand by my assertion that you don't believe what the Church teaches. As has been stated before, Vatican II, as well as John Paul II, decreed that Latin **is** the language of the Church. There is a reason for it and it is not your place to argue. When you were confirmed you made a vow to believe what the Church teaches, and you obviously don't. If you want to privately think that this teaching is "balderdash," that is up to you and the Lord. But to publicly express your opinion, after vowing to uphold the Church's teachings, is just plain wrong. You are causing scandal to the faithful.


246 posted on 10/12/2006 10:27:12 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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To: nanetteclaret
"I stand by my assertion that you don't believe what the Church teaches. As has been stated before, Vatican II, as well as John Paul II, decreed that Latin **is** the language of the Church. There is a reason for it and it is not your place to argue. When you were confirmed you made a vow to believe what the Church teaches, and you obviously don't. If you want to privately think that this teaching is "balderdash," that is up to you and the Lord. But to publicly express your opinion, after vowing to uphold the Church's teachings, is just plain wrong. You are causing scandal to the faithful.

And it is "the language of the Church". However, that SAME Vatican II also said that Latin would no longer be the "language of the Mass". There IS a distinction between the two. There are practical reasons (time invariance) to keep Latin as the primary language of the Church. But there are also practical reasons why Mass in the vernacular is also now a "teaching of the church".

And as far as "causing scandal to the faithful", it is you "Latin purists" who are causing the scandal by trying to crawl back into your comfortable "snail-shell" of the "traditional Latin Mass".

249 posted on 10/12/2006 10:37:24 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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