tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post6356709963557866188..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Eamon Duffy in The Tablet on the Pope on the Liturgy...Schützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-50879598951302310472010-08-27T10:19:52.000+10:002010-08-27T10:19:52.000+10:00Hopefully the new missal will go some way towards ...<i>Hopefully the new missal will go some way towards redressing the balance.</i><br><br>A hearty amen to that.Christinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-73772443925562543632010-09-15T00:16:08.000+10:002010-09-15T00:16:08.000+10:00I'm not a Catholic, but Eamon Duffy's comm...I'm not a Catholic, but Eamon Duffy's comments sound to me well expressed and because they touch recognizable themes persuasive. My impression from outside the RC Church is that Vatican 2 was part of wave of secularism that swept Christian churches in the 60s. harvey Cox wrote 'The Secular City, and 'religionless Christianity' became the 'obvious way ahead--except that Cox denounced his own book, and religionless Christianity is now recognised to have been a slogan taken out of context from Bonhoeffer's prison letters. Unfortunately, because Vatican 2 was an 'ecumenical council', it is much harder to deny its implicit trendiness. Except that as Tracey Rowland points out in her book, Pope Benedict has been able to make some sober critiques of some of the documents. There must have been gains from the Council, but from my angle, the net effect has been to make priests uncertain about their role and there to be a loss of the sense of participating in a Mystery by the laity. I am glad therefore to see (as expressed in Tracey Rowland's book and in the Pope's own statements) that Benedict XVI is regaining some of this lost ground for priests and laity alike. All the best to him and the Catholic Church for this.Bobnoreply@blogger.com