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Eric S's avatar

That was fantastic. Thank you.

(Just one tiny little thing: those who have committed adultery are not prohibited from receiving 'the sacraments' since obviously Confession is a sacrament that they are very much encouraged to receive. This term 'the sacraments' is used very clumsily in a lot of Catholic media and it needs to stop.)

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Jeff Brewster's avatar

I still recall my excitment when BXVI became pope 20 years ago. I thought of him at the time as JP2's doctrinal pitbull, keeping the modernist wolves of the Church at bay. He was really a moderate by today's standards as he attempted to both justify and mitigate the rupture of V2. His "ordinary and extraordinary form" distinctions of the Mass was akin to a Ford CEO telling us the 1974 Pinto was just as good as a 1967 Shelby and that we ought to buy the former if we have a choice. The bitter reality is that these were not only not forms of the same rite but reflected different Catholic religions.

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