I would be in favor of a new openess toward the use of Latin. Latin in the Mass has come meanwhile to look to us like a fall from grace. So that, in any case, communication is ruled out that is very necessary in areas of mixed culture...Let's think of tourist centers, where it would be lovely for people to recognize each other in something they have in common. So we ought to keep such things alive and present. If even in the great liturgical celebrations in Rome, no one can sing the Kyrie or … [More]

Jesus our Lord, was severely persecuted and criticized by those who believed to know everything and closed their hearts to the love of God.

"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3
Thank you, Father Jeffrey.

Curious that this Paulist Priest understands so little of the lex credendi-lex orandi maxim of Gregory the Great. It is odd that Thomistic thought could be intellectually and spiritually reconciled with his liberal and rather 'down-at-heel' liturgy......