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To: Antoninus
Hate to tell you, but the Latin mass generates a lot of interest among young people -- particularly those of us who grew up in the era of gross liturgical "innovation.

I'm sure it does in your world. But the numbers simply don't bear out the "lot of interest" that many of the (to paraphrase your words) "overly optimistic" here on FR keep insisting is out there.

In addition, there's a lot of difference between the Novus Ordo in Latin and the Tridentine Mass. The Novus Ordo is normative; even the Pope is not in favor of allowing the Tridentine Mass to supplant the Novus Ordo. That's why I can't, for the life of me, figure out where all these SSSP priests are going to find work. Bishops are simply not going to establish more than one or two "Latin only" parishes in a diocese.

63 posted on 07/19/2002 12:10:38 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
That's why I can't, for the life of me, figure out where all these SSSP priests are going to find work. Bishops are simply not going to establish more than one or two "Latin only" parishes in a diocese.
LOL. Just how many SSPX priests do you think there are? Take the existing one Latin only parish in the diocese (some of them, anyway), add a second for an SSPX priest, and you are going to have to find a whole lot more SSPX priests to fill all the spots. Anyway, whatever happens, finding work for priests will probably be the smallest problem.

patent  +AMDG

66 posted on 07/19/2002 12:48:05 PM PDT by patent
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