Post by melancholicus on Mar 9, 2013 23:38:03 GMT
This story was posted on Catholic World News several days ago, and I am rather surprised that it has attracted no comment, not even Rorate Caeli or Fr. Z have picked it up:
www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17237
[EXTRACT]
The new Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, who leads an Eastern Catholic church with 419,000 members, told La Croix that his priorities are the reorganization of the patriarchal curia, the appointment of bishops to vacant sees, and the updating of liturgical books.
“Liturgical reform has never occurred in our church,” he said. “We celebrate the Mass according to an ancient missal, and each diocese has its own missal. We need to update our liturgy so that it speaks to man today, so that it gives meaning and much hope.”
Born in 1948, the patriarch was ordained a priest of the Eparchy of Mosul in 1974 and Archbishop of Kirkuk in 2003. [END OF EXTRACT: emphasis above is my own]
What does everyone think of this? I know this story has precious little bearing on Irish Catholicism, but it seems to me to be an important matter. I also know that what a newly-enthroned prelate says and what he later does are two different things.
On the face of it, it looks like he intends to demolish the ancient rites of his church. He certainly gives that impression, as he uses the same tired shopworn buzzwords with which we in the west have long been sadly familiar: 'updating', 'speaking to man today', 'meaning', and all that. If he goes on like this he'll wind up inventing the novus ordo.
What an anti-liturgical attitude, though, the same as that which resulted in the destruction of the Traditional Latin liturgy in the west. As if the Iraqi church didn't already have enough problems.
www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17237
[EXTRACT]
The new Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, who leads an Eastern Catholic church with 419,000 members, told La Croix that his priorities are the reorganization of the patriarchal curia, the appointment of bishops to vacant sees, and the updating of liturgical books.
“Liturgical reform has never occurred in our church,” he said. “We celebrate the Mass according to an ancient missal, and each diocese has its own missal. We need to update our liturgy so that it speaks to man today, so that it gives meaning and much hope.”
Born in 1948, the patriarch was ordained a priest of the Eparchy of Mosul in 1974 and Archbishop of Kirkuk in 2003. [END OF EXTRACT: emphasis above is my own]
What does everyone think of this? I know this story has precious little bearing on Irish Catholicism, but it seems to me to be an important matter. I also know that what a newly-enthroned prelate says and what he later does are two different things.
On the face of it, it looks like he intends to demolish the ancient rites of his church. He certainly gives that impression, as he uses the same tired shopworn buzzwords with which we in the west have long been sadly familiar: 'updating', 'speaking to man today', 'meaning', and all that. If he goes on like this he'll wind up inventing the novus ordo.
What an anti-liturgical attitude, though, the same as that which resulted in the destruction of the Traditional Latin liturgy in the west. As if the Iraqi church didn't already have enough problems.