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LMS Walking Pilgrimage to Walsingham this year |
The Tablet no longer publishes my letters, which is an interesting development: they used to publish them pretty regularly. However, these two are interesting. They are the only letters published this week on this subject.
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Many of us will be pleased
that Cardinal Arthur Roche,
head of the Dicastery for Divine
Worship, has come out critical
of those who refuse to accept
liturgical reforms as
promulgated by Vatican II
(“Roche asks whether
traditionalists are still Catholic”,
3 September). However, I
would question the way in
which he demonises these
dissenters as “Protestants”.
That same Vatican Council
decided that after all Protestants
are good people. And the
analogy falls flat when you take
account that Protestants
concluded some centuries before
Catholics that the vernacular
was indeed the better language
to celebrate the liturgy.
CHRIS LARKMAN
LONDON SW20
I was sorry to hear Cardinal
Roche’s judgement on
Tridentine Mass-goers, as
reported in The Tablet.
The Vatican Council was not
legislation to impose on the
faithful. It was more a path of
renewal taken by all the bishops
of the time, celebrants of the old
Mass to a man. They re-engaged with Scripture, were
opened up to the riches of
Catholic tradition, were
sensitive to the needs of the day
and were led by the Holy Spirit.
Shouldn’t Rome be making
sure that that path remains
open to all, and not labelling
our brothers and sisters in the
faith as Protestants?
JIM SPENCER
GILLINGHAM, KENT
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