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By: jaykay

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Doh!! Gave “us” the new Missal, of course. That was the Vox Clara committee, established in 2001 and Bp. Boyce was a member right from the beginning. We owe him much.

We shouldn’t forget, however, that Abp. Martin did establish the Dublin Latin Mass Chaplaincy, and has celebrated an EF Pontifical High Mass. That is considerably more than his brothers have done – I refer particularly to my own Archdiocese (Armagh) where I have the impression that certain lower regions would get rather chilly before such a model of being Church would be allowed. There!! You see, you even begin to talk in NuChurchspeak after constant exposure to the glories of the New Springtime over the past 40+ years :(

BMCP4tr01 says “we have the Bishops we deserve”.

No, we don’t actually. We have the Bishops who were given to us by Rome, chosen from among priests produced by the Irish church (I know you’re from the UK) which they themselves and the Bishops before them deliberately – yes, deliberately – shaped over almost 50 years of dreadful catechesis, or more likely total neglect of any genuine Catholic catechesis whatsoever, liturgical aberrations, craven bending to the zeitgeist and popularity-seeking and a two-faced attitude towards Papal authority, if not outright criticism of it – again on the popularity bandwagon. The laity were not consulted and had no part in all of this. Indeed those of us of a conservative (don’t like that word really) bent learned at a very early stage to keep our heads well and truly down. So no, we do not have the Bishops we deserve. We deserve very much better, but we certainly ain’t going to get it anytime in the near future, if the calibre of the majority of clergy is anything to go by.


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