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1. Shuffling verbal "deckchairs" while the Catholic Titanic continues to sink in the Western World.

   Posted By: Paul W

2. "The pontiff issued an Apostolic Letter motu proprio on Monday" Monday? what Monday? According to Vatican website, the document was issued on 30 August. Wasn't that a Tuesday? A whole lot of shuffling going on!

   Posted By: Tom H

3. Oh and BTW Quaerit semper will appear on 1 October in L'Osservatore Romano.....

   Posted By: Tom H

4. If I am not mistaken, the photograph accompanying this article is a photograph taken at an Anglican liturgy. If not - from what is shown in the picture, - one person in academic dress in the santuary, another in anglican episcopal lawn sleeves, a choir behind the altar, no visible catholic sacramentals or art anywhere in the sanctuary, and altar that looks 'over dressed' and at least one person amongst the robed clergy with very long hair, along with a few wearing sarum surplices - then the congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments clearly is in need of an overhaul and has quite amount of work and reform to take in hand oif this is what is taking place in Roman Catholic Churches. Or is it that those at Cathnews who put together this article don't know the difference between Catholic and Anglican liturgy and ceremonial. There is certainly a lot of that around at presnt in some Australian parishes. In the last parish I attended in the Archdioces of Melbourne a few years ago I could have been excused for thinking I was in a Uniting Church - given the free hand the priest presumed to take with the liturgy - verging on lay presidency. For example - lay people holding up the elements at the Offertory while the priest spoke the words and the laity breaking the large host prior to communion. I think they mistakenly call it 'lay participation'.

   Posted By: Phillip Turnbull

5. Well said Phillip Turnbull. I was thinking that I was the only one who would notice the irregularity! Perhaps it is a good thing that the Holy Father allows the Congregation for Divine Worship to redirect it's focus on the purity of Catholic liturgy. After all, if the writers of Cathnews can't spot the difference between Catholic and Anglican liturgy, we are all in trouble!

   Posted By: Brent Egan

6. No flies on us anymore: I hope someone is taking note. L Newington

   Posted By: L Newington

7. That's interesting, I wonder who those are who have taken on the role of the dispensing of Religious vows and nullity of Holy Orders. There's no mention of Rescripts according to Canon 1139, long recorded but rarely implemented. Maybe some one has set a precedent, even from the grave. L Newington

   Posted By: L Newington

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