A) I disagree with your opinions regarding the immaturity of your brothers and sisters in the English churches. And yes, I do understand that many here have disagreements with the changes in Church practice as a result of Vatican II.
You are welcome to disagree, but I stand by my words. We are seeing repeat of the Corinthian Church today in the renewal churches.
B) You are correct on the issue at hand. I apologize. I suggested that the Vatican might directly address this matter since the regulations were either being misinterpreted or being violated.
The Vatican did exactly what I would have thought that they might do. The private letter is clear. This practice is prohibited, pending review.
The only reason the Vatican needed to say anything is the same reason the letter to the Corinthian Church was written . .to correct error and abuses. And Paul rebukes them for being so spiritually immature that they need to be fed spiritual milk again instead of meat. Obedience is a simple issue. I posted from the words of the Church making it clear what obedience entailed, the scope of the prohibition of adding anything to the Mass. Those words were simply, clear, explicit.
Mature faith is a faith obedient to the Church and when the Church says "No" understands the Church really means "no" and does not need to have the Church expressly forbid any particular thing that falls under the umbrella of the "No" already pronounced. It is with the immaturity of a child that one feels the need to test the boundries and try things then wait to see if the parent notices or will say "I said No and I meant No."
As far as the letter, it is not a matter of those words pending review as if they may somehow be changed in the future. This is not going to be changed. These words are simply as far as they would go at this point to state while it is still under the attentive study of the Vatican. But this was released to give clarity to what we should expect a more fully stated response will be.
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