tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post30160717898589882..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Loftus at it againLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-14985835667049015052013-03-02T12:54:58.879+00:002013-03-02T12:54:58.879+00:00In my increasingly vast experience,(age-related), ...In my increasingly vast experience,(age-related), the stupidest people are those who believe everyone else is more stupid than they are. I guess they are in special need of our prayers.Gentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569143943867323153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-72309518795114866642013-03-02T12:17:17.691+00:002013-03-02T12:17:17.691+00:00Happily we do not get the Catholic Times here (tho...Happily we do not get the Catholic Times here (though The Tablet we still do **sigh**) but I am familiar with some of the Monsignor's previous efforts.<br /><br />What he reveals in his quote is that patronising attitude to the faithful that is at the heart of true clericalism. If it weren't for his having a national mouthpiece he would best be ignored.<br /><br />Happily, for us if not the other readers of the Times, you have exposed his contempt for reality and, implicitly, for the retired pontiff.<br /><br />Happily, too, we who celebrate the vernacular are now, to Loftus' horror, not reduced to monosyllabic banalities but are blessed with a vernacular that comes so much closer to the content and (sorry, but it has to be said) spirit of the Latin.<br /><br />Pax!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-69242938009476405332013-03-02T11:10:43.978+00:002013-03-02T11:10:43.978+00:00Mgr Loftus' article ably demonstrates a common...Mgr Loftus' article ably demonstrates a common trait found in the writings of many who claim they advocate 'inclusion', and that the EF is somehow 'exclusive'. <br /><br />Sure enough we find in the middle of his article an observation, 'the new English translation, with its constant need for its vocabulary, syntax, style and occasionally theology to be itself explained to the ordinary people, if indeed it can be understood by the priest, is a negation of the "ease" with which all should be able to participate'. From Mgr Loftus' perspective the new English translation is beyond the laity, and many priests, therefore the EF must be completely beyond our comprehension. <br /><br />Mgr Loftus stops short of coining Edmund Burke's 'swinish multitude' phrase, but this is nonetheless a truly patronising and condescending denunciation of the people of God and his brother priests. Time and again we hear advocates of 'inclusion' telling us what we know and how we think. If this is the voice of 'inclusion', I will stay with hierarchy please!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-67194737023923219822013-03-02T09:03:25.312+00:002013-03-02T09:03:25.312+00:00How sad that the Catholic (so called) Times would ...How sad that the Catholic (so called) Times would not publish your letter. I have sent an email to the Editor objecting and protesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com