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camelot
Barsoom
 USA
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Posted - 27/05/2007 : 03:55:51
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This is just odd...I thought latin was not used in Catholic services for a hundred years. Guess I didn't pay attention in class :). One question, why would Jews care if Roman Catholics celebrate mass in the latin language???
VATICAN CITY - 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.
Now, little more than a generation later, Pope Benedict XVI is poised to revive the 16th-century Tridentine Mass.
In doing so, he will be overriding objections from some cardinals, bishops and Jews — whose complaints range from the text of the old Mass to the symbolic sweeping aside of the council's work from 1962-65. Many in the church regard Vatican II as a moment of badly needed reform and a new beginning, a view at odds with Benedict, who sees it as a renewal of church tradition.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_latin_liturgy
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