Online Edition – Vol. VIII, No. 4: June 2002

Table of Contents

Holy See Sends Message on ICEL "Sacramentary" project deemed a dud – ends decade of debate/Attached is a copy of Cardinal Medina Estévez’s letter to Bishop Gregory — by Helen Hull Hitchcock

"American Adaptations" Approved Adds Another Layer to Liturgy Changes — by Helen Hull Hitchcock

Liturgy Commission Plagued by Pederasty Problems FDLC Director is second official in a year to be charged — by Helen Hull Hitchcock

News "Pre-catechizing" on new liturgy rules — Kneeling "dissents from the mind of the Church"? — "Mr. Gregorian Chant"- New CDs of classic lectures — Confraternity to meet — Pope warns against "clericalization" of the laity — "This is a Catholic Church"

Face-to-face with the Grand Summa — by Michael S. Rose

Holy See’s Observations on ICEL English-language Translation of the Roman Missal

Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus — by Hugh Ballantyne

Pope John Paul II – Misericordia Dei – Apostolic Letter, John Paul II, April 7, 2002

Readers’ Forum for June 2002 — Kneel before Sanctus? — Background music — Blessed Sacrament Chapel — Location of tabernacle — Cathedral renovation — Norms for church architecture — Love thinks not of efficiency — The Eternal Language — Vox Clara — Role of Deacons — Kneel means worship — Rules for the "general intercessions"? — Strange twists — Sidestepping the Sacred — Mysterious omissions — John XXIII and Latin — Worshipping whom? — Footwashing — Down Under — Sprinkling rite

Saint John Fisher – Fidelity unto Death, English bishop and martyr offers example of heroic virtue.

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