Vatican II never said: > We’re birthing a new Church. Vatican II was about re-presenting the wholeness of the Faith in a new way. Got that? Not new doctrine; no new doctrine; just a new way of presenting what we always held. > Overhaul our parish churches, destroying altar rails, smashing altars, removing artwork, and building churches that no longer look Catholic. > Throw out catechisms and no longer teach doctrine. Yet this happened for quite awhile. When Pope John Paul II proposed a new catechism, remember who resisted it? Yep—the same crowd. > Turn the altars around. Not a word. > Downplaying devotions, particularly adoration of the Holy Eucharist. > Removing tabernacles from the central point in a parish church. > No more Latin and chant. Instead, it said, add the vernacular to the menu of choices, keeping Latin on the menu, and using it. > It’s no longer important to celebrate the liturgy faithfully according to the norms set by the Church, but now priests and the faithful can improvise and reinvent the liturgy “for pastoral reasons.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:30:19 +0000