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Recent content by Fitch

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    criticism of priest

    What on earth does this have to do with his question? Are we really so obsessed on the one hand with Protestants and on the other with somehow mitigating the sins of the leaders in our church?
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    Yes, I think this is right, at least in part. Again, I think the rise of Latin as the language of the church had far more to do with the next 4 or 5 hundred years in the west than with the sign the Legionaries put on the cross over our Lord's head. And of course there would be no church in the...
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    Substantialism... issues

    Yes. I think this is right. Just because Aristotle didn't envision it doesn't mean it can't be used.
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    I don't agree that that made it holy. By the same reasoning, since Aramaic is the only language we know for certain that Jesus spoke, IT should really be the "holy language" par excellence and should be the one we use in liturgy. But why the Latin and not the Greek and Hebrew? For the sake of...
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    Matt. 8:5-13 A really remarkable episode I think.
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    Substantialism... issues

    It is perhaps interesting that Aristotle, the originator of these ideas, never thought substance and accidence could be separated.
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    But Fantine, knowing the remarkable grace that was being asked for and subsequently given to the representative and leader of a hated Gentile occupying force has its own value, doesn't it? As well as the faith of this Centurion, commended by Christ as exemplary even to the children of Israel...
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    Latin was never widely known in the Eastern Empire. It was however the language of administration used by the Roman gubernatorial apparatus. Those who may have needed to have dealings with them might have known enough Latin in order to effect their business but beyond this very few bothered to...
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    This is true, but istm that too radical a commitment to Latin represents a sort of refrigeration of tradition and, at base, a denial of it being a living voice. But this happens in every religious tradition, practices and modes come into vogue and are used for long enough and eventually they...
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    When did we start celebrating Mass in Latin?

    In the west, yes, Latin was the common tongue. But it isn't anymore. To be perfectly frank, English is about the closest thing we have to a globally common language today.
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    What is a Liberal Catholic?

    Well, I'd say there are Catholics and there are lapsi and leave it at that.
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    What is a Liberal Catholic?

    I am down with the church on all these, however, I believe that married men should be permitted to become priests and that divorced and remarried Catholics should be permitted to return to full communion after confession, absolution and penance at least after the first time being divorced...no...
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    You can go home again: Catholics return to the church

    There is a lot of truth here, but I am reminded of our Lord's parable of the workers, where the person hiring pays the workers the same wage regardless of when during the day He hired them.