Sunday, May 27, 2007

Pope considers return to Latin Mass

Pope considers return to Latin mass (AP)

Don Lorenzo celebrates a Tridentine Mass at Gesu e Maria Church in central Rome in this April 29, 2007 photo. When the Second Vatican Council ended in 1965, one of the most radical changes that ensued was the reform of the 16th century Tridentine Mass, celebrated in Latin, into the modern liturgy used today in the vernacular. Progressives hailed the change as a real and symbolic break from the past that Vatican II represented to them. Traditionalists balked at it — and a few eventually got themselves excommunicated for holding too fast to tradition and straying from the Vatican's line. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to reach out to these disaffected traditionalists by liberalizing the use of the Tridentine Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the momentous 1962-65 meetings that modernized the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - It was one of the most radical reforms to emerge from the Second Vatican Council. The Mass, root of Roman Catholic worship, would be celebrated in the local language and not in Latin.


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