Fay Voshell

Mary Eberstadt's brilliant essay is filled with truths applicable to all Christians. I hope you read it! One of her core points: "The real Catholic divide in our time is between people who try to stand as signs of contradiction in this world, and people who capitulate. It is between Catholics who want powerful secular trends to influence and transform the Church, and Catholics who don’t."

I have said this before, but will say it again: The resistance of the current pope to the Latin mass is a symbolic and real capitulation to powerful secular trends, as those trends employ linguistic changes in order to change the liturgy and through that change, the core doctrines of the Catholic church. The newspeak that now has a grip on many denominations is not easy to articulate in Latin. Latin liturgy is on the walls of the catacombs and has not changed much since then.

One last comment on the Latin mass: I think it would be fine--and even preferable?--to conduct liturgy in the language of the peoples attending mass IF translations of the Latin were faithful representations of that language, which articulates two millennia of core doctrines. The rub comes in when the entire liturgical tradition is scrapped in favor of newspeak "inclusiveness, " including new terms for the Trinity and for the human being--upending the meaning of salvation. I'll end here. Have a great weekend.

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