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...They have endured portions of the new missal that really are for parish use, (the oratio futelium, or the enlarged lectionary aimed at the Never-But-On-Sunday goers for exampie), so that we might reap the benefits...
...At the risk of contributing to what the president of England's Society For Latin In The Liturgy calls "that ancient Catholic periodical correspondence column pastime, Last week on the feast of X I went to Y and was appalled to find them doing Z'," I would like to take issue with one of Mr...
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...Will more of what put us where we are get us out again...
...All of the:;e now read like faded, yellow newspapers...
...That, for love of those who thirst after the Roman Rite, we do ;is the Sovereign Pontiff is asking...
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...And former Ambassador Korry told a Senate subcommittee: "The United States did not seek to pressure, subvert, influence a single member of the Chilean Congress at any time in the entire four years of my stay...
...nothing is as old as yesterday's newspaper...
...If you try too hard to be new, you grow old-fashioned overnight...
...First there were the solemn affirmations, many of them under oath...
...Edward M. Korry, former Ambassador to Chile...
...Rather, we wanted the people to share in the sheer excitement of the celebration of the Christian Mystery...
...Minority peo]~les from Brazil to Vietnam are never cruel and never invade their neighbol~, l'm curious as to why an intelligent and hard-working author turns out paper-thin characters in a cardboard world...
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...We bought no votes, we funded no candidates, we promoted no coup...
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...Martin B. Hellriegel, an American pioneer of liturgy, now pinpoints "optionalism" as "one of the great diseases of the 20th century...
...Said he: "We were religiously and scrupulously adhering to the policy of the government of the United States of non-intervention...
...How did the CIA--which means the United States of Americamspend its money...
...And the leaders--sometimes martyrs---of liturgical reform envisioned something of majesty and beauty...
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...What we got, of course, was much, much less...
...But, what we wanted was more, not less: more drama, greater graciousness, deeper dignity, a more vivid sense of reality of Church and Sacrament, a sharpened, more penetrating sense of the "spiritual"---'q'urn but a stone and start an angel's wing...
...Presumably the CIA was satisfied that this result in fact came to pass slightly more than a year ago, when a bloody military coup took place that cost Aliende his life...
...We have had one of the options forced upon us in this counlry, and the Missal itself denied...
...what formerly the priest had mumbled in Latin...
...Orate Fratres gathered dust in the libraries of Catholic colleges and only Anglicans read it...
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...To the Editors: Thank you for Michael True's article, "Latinization of West Roxbury" [July 26...
...The monks there now have embraced Paul VI's missal specifically at his request so that a fitting example for the whole world to draw upon be worked out...
...Typical of the testimony was that of Mr...
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...We may catch ourselves thinking of heaven at Mass again...
...This novel resembles one of a dozen l've read the last five years that tried hard to be up-to-date: Lloyd Zimpel's Meeting the Bear, around the burnings by blacks in 1963 (1971...
...Thanks to Congressman Michael Harrington of Massachusetts, we now know that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly authorized by the 40 Committee (headed by Henry Kissinger) to spend more than $8 million between 1970 and 1973 (the equivalent of $40 million at black market rates) in a covert attempt to make it impossible for the legally elected President Allende to govern in Chile...
...It displayed the temper of the times, a vehicle of evil as of good...
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...This one blunted my imagination...
...My wife and I attended a Latin Mass in Notre Dame Cathedral--the priest had his back to the people--a reg(Continued on page 71) NEWS & VIEWS: 5 0 CORRESPONDENCE: 51 EDITORIALS: 5 ! WASHINGTON REPORT: Post.Watergate Reconstructlon---M~lla: Sisyphus 5 2 BROTHER McNAUGHT, BROTHER O'ROURKE: Michael Novak 511 PROGRESS AND THE GOOD LORD: Erazim Kohak 5 7 AN OPEN LETTER TO JOE O'ROURKE: Daniel Berrigan G! VERSE: Roy Scheele 55 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...What we've got is really so atrocious that the Tridentine Mass looks magnificent by comparison...
...Might I suggest that we simply be obedient for a change...
...What was the left hand doing at the same time...
...By a series of options, the new Roman Missal permits one to dispense with the new Roman Missal...
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...Alan Lelchuk's American Mischief, on the student-radicals who occupied Columbia, Harvard, and a dozen universities in France in 1969-1973...
...The American dollars were originally spent in an effort to prevent Allende's election in the first place and then, when that failed, on efforts to "destabilize" his government...
...In now disclosed but then secret Congressional testimony, CIA head William E. Colby said his agency had spent $500,000 helping Allende's political opponents in the Commonweal: 51 It was a young man's act, full of generosity...
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...One, for example, writing in Commonweal---30 years ago?--said that if the Mass were to be made available in the vernacular, the English would have to be as distinguished and lovely as that in the Book of Common Prayer...
...Really, it would be a most welcome relief from what we've got...
...I'm old enough to remember the days when anyone--priest or layman--interested in liturgical reform was suspected of heresy, crypto-Communism or effeminacy...
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Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 3
