TIME Tries to Tie Liberalization of Latin Mass Indult to Anti-Semitism and "Rollback" of Vatican II

Remember to follow the Jimmy Akin Mark Shea rule of subracting 50 IQ points whenever the MSM talks about religion:

Long before his run-in with the Malibu sheriff's department, Mel Gibson found himself in a very different kind of fix. Back in 2003, while filming The Passion of the Christ, the devout Catholic director couldn't find a real-life priest to his liking. The problem wasn't that he was shooting in an exotic location — they were at Rome's Cinecitta' movie studio, just down the road from the Vatican. But Gibson had a special requirement that was tough to satisfy even in the eternal city: he wanted his daily Mass celebrated in Latin.

In the 1960's, the Second Vatican Council — along with other changes meant to bring the rite closer to the faithful, such as having the priest face the congregation — replaced the traditional liturgy with Mass in local languages. To celebrate the Latin, or Tridentine rite, today, a pastor needs special permission from his bishop. So Gibson had to hunt out a particular 90-year-old French priest to officiate every morning on set.

Well, Mel's luck may be turning. Pope Benedict XVI is said to be preparing to widen the use of the old Latin rite again. He expected to issue a"motu proprio,"a document of his own initiative, which would loosen the permission requirement.

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Yet his olive branch may complicate matters in the American Church. Certainly, traditionalists who had to drive a hundred miles to find a priest with permission will be thrilled. More theologically liberal Catholics, however, may see it as a Lefebvrite-tinged step back from the principles they feel inspired Vatican II. "This would make it much more difficult for people to engage in full conscious and active participation, which was the goal of the Council," says Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America. Congregations could theoretically split on the issue, and many current priests would have to learn the old Mass (and more Latin, if they wanted to understand it).

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My Comments:
Why the need to drag Mel Gibson into this? And the reference to his "run-in with the Malibu sheriff's department" is clearly an attempt to associate the Latin Mass with Gibson's anti-semitic slurs (for which he has since apologized and sought counselling).

And, of course, the Jesuit editor of America magazine that TIME quotes is only too willing to paint a picture of the Pope's decision as reactionary.


Correction:
That's Mark Shea's rule about subtracting 50 points (or so he assures me in the comments). I was under the impression that Mark attributed it to Jimmy, but apparently I was mistaken.

Sorry, Mark!

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