Rynne redux.John Wilkins's account of the travails of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy
The International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL ICEL International Committee on English in the Liturgy ICEL International Consortium for Experiential Learning ICEL International Committee for English in the Liturgy ) was keen and incisive. It recalled the style of Xavier Rynne's reporting during Vatican II Noun 1. Vatican II - the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms Second Vatican Council Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church . As it turns out, the same timeline recounted by Wilkins spans the period when Europe's faith was sharply declining, when priests and nuns were leaving the religious life by the thousands, and when the rot of clerical pedophilia pedophilia, psychosexual disorder in which there is a preference for sexual activity with prepubertal children. Pedophiles are almost always males. The children are more often of the opposite sex (about twice as often) and are typically 13 years or age or younger; , securely concealed behind the wall of hierarchical silence, was settling in. During this time, while the curia was so fiercely safeguarding the correct translation of "et cum spiritu tuo," what was it doing about these other problems? (REV.) G. F. WERNER Edgewood, N.Mex. |
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