going, gone
By Diogenes (articles ) | March 11, 2005 7:23 AM
The bishops invest, cautiously, in Studebaker.
Msgr. James P. Moroney, secretary of the U.S. bishops' liturgy office and a consultant to "Vox Clara," said the bishops send a representative to the twice-yearly meetings of the U.S. ecumenical Consultation on Common Texts. Through the consultation, the U.S. bishops participate in the work of the English Language Liturgical Consultation, the international body responsible for the development of common liturgical and devotional texts.
It's no secret that the work of Vox Clara is controversial, based as it is on implementing the norms of the controversial instruction Liturgiam authenticam. Its strictures against paraphrase, PC euphemism, and inclusive language caused establishment liturdroids to react as if sprinkled with battery acid. To pinch Tom Wolfe's phrase, "They shrieked like weenies over an open fire."
All the more ironic that the ecumenical ELLC project is still breathing on life-support. The idea was to get anglophone Catholics and mainline Protestant bodies to agree on common versions of standard prayers such as the Our Father and the Gloria. But this was a long-shot at the best of times, and presently the mainstream Protestant bodies are in a process of uncontrolled fission, to the extent that their internal unity is little more than a useful legal fiction. The Anglican and Lutheran delegates to ELLC must feel like the Yugoslavian UN rep around 1991, never sure between one meal and the next whether his homeland still existed or what peoples it might include. It's hard to make policy in those circumstances.
I'm not gloating. If many Protestant clergy have snapped the chain and run free, many Catholic bishops as well are straining at the leash with all their force. They differ not in their appetites, but in the strength of the chain. For now.
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Posted by: normnuke -
Mar. 14, 2005 10:25 PM ET USA
Latinae makes a good point. A point that is amplified by the curiously warm feeling left by the Time Mag article "Hail Mary".
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Posted by: -
Mar. 11, 2005 9:47 AM ET USA
The really odd thing is that many Protestant Pastors and Congregations buy stuff - prayer books, hymn books, assorted vestments, candles, Catholic devotional articles, but not rosaries, etc. from Catholic supply stores all the time, and do so without consulting the parent body. If we publish good texts, and honestly liturgical and devotional items, we will indirectly and inevitably Catholicize their worship. Remember, when the Protestants came to the fore, all they brought were incoherent views.
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Posted by: patriot6908 -
Mar. 11, 2005 8:16 AM ET USA
But look at the bright side. Don't we all still believe in the "diverse, sometimes holy, and conceivably apostolic church(es)?"
