tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post5540089769851033412..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: New Ecclesia Dei documentFr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-31497541850316327372007-12-31T14:36:00.000+00:002007-12-31T14:36:00.000+00:00Dear Dr Wright, you are correct in your distinctio...Dear Dr Wright, you are correct in your distinctions and I know too well from past experience that even if a Roman document comes signed by the Pope, in forma specifica, it is often still ignored.<BR/><BR/>The old guard is still putting up quite a fight against the implementation of the MP. I know of a couple of cases, which I can`t speak about yet, but I hope eventually, with a bit of publicity thrown in, there will be a retreat by the opposition. The new document will, I hope, be further useful ammunition in the battle but won`t be more than that.Fr Michael Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-64580564855087151812007-12-31T14:29:00.000+00:002007-12-31T14:29:00.000+00:00Summorum Pontificum was essentially a juridical do...Summorum Pontificum was essentially a juridical document.<BR/><BR/>The forthcoming clarification will be a pastoral document.<BR/><BR/>Many of the comments I was reading on this subject over at Fr. Z's blog seem to me unnecessarily <BR/>unnecessarily pessimistic :<BR/><BR/>e.g. Opponents of Summorum Pontificum will ignore, or find ways round, the clarification. It won't really make any difference. Things won't get any bettter. Etc., etc.<BR/><BR/>But things are changing in the Church.<BR/><BR/>When I first read Pope Benedict's "Spe Salvi", I never though I would find myself in 2007 reading a papal encyclical which contains not one direct reference to Vatican II !<BR/><BR/>Coming from the hand of Pope Benedict XVI, I can't believe that is accidental !<BR/><BR/>There are other signs and portents and (always) rumours.<BR/><BR/>But the era of the Indult Masses, for instance, has gone for good.<BR/><BR/>(I don't know if the significance of this has fully sunk in, yet, in various minds.)<BR/><BR/>All will be well !<BR/>(Sooner or later.)Dr. Peter H. Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955402188119575105noreply@blogger.com