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They are the bishops Ranjith and Schneider. They follow the pope's example in the liturgical camp more and better than many of their colleagues in Italy and Europe. One revealing test is the manner of giving communion at MassIn his diocese, Archbishop Ranjith has proclaimed a special year of the Eucharist. And to prepare for it...he brought in two outstanding speakers from Rome: Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, prefect of the Vatican congregation for divine worship, and Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, a member of the same congregation and an adviser for the office of pontifical liturgical celebrations. Lang, German by birth...

Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Secretary for the Congregation for Divine Worship, Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, has been keeping a high profile lately, speaking out in a number of interviews about the rebellion of some bishops against Summorum Pontificum and the continued need to reign in the abuses that have taken place in the Novus Ordo liturgy. A recent interview with the Agenzia Fides may give us a clue to what could be next on the horizon(?)--an end to Holy Communion in the hand. In the excerpt translated into English below, note that Archbishop Ranjith does not condemn the New Mass (a common...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments criticized bishops and priests who have given a narrow interpretation to Pope Benedict XVI's permission for the wider celebration of the Tridentine Mass. Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don told an Italian Internet news site that he found it difficult to understand the action "and even rebellion" of churchmen who have tried to limit access to the older Mass. "On the part of some dioceses, there have been interpretive documents that inexplicably aim to limit the 'motu proprio' of the pope," he told the Web...

Archp Ranjith on bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum: “instruments of the devil” CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 4:00 pm A kind reader sent me this fascinating excerpt from a talk given by His Excellency Most Rev. Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.  the talk was entitled “Faith, Obedience and Theology” and was delivered at the annual meeting of the Dutch Latin Liturgy Association (Vereniging voor Latijnse Liturgie) in ’s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands) on 6 October 2007. He gave the talk in English, but the person who sent it to me translated...

25 April 2007 Interview with Archbp. Ranjith on the Exhortation CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 7:25 pm There is an nterview available through UCANews. Gerard O’Connell interviews H.E. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith speaking about the post-Synodal Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis of His Holiness. It concerns especially the Exhortation and Asia.  There is a mention of the now famously correction par. 62 Sacramentum caritatis.  The inteview is an education about the use of Latin and its place in the whole world, not just in Asia.  He speaks about Gregorian chant. Most interesting are his comments about inculturation. Here are some...