Having shown so much interest in the Motu Proprio, I though I had better have a post on the latest information. See
this Rorate Caeli post which has the translation of an Italian article at the Papal News website
Petrus by Bruno Volpe. Apparently the MP is to be published before the Pope's summer vacation. When is that? you ask. "New Catholic" helpfully specifies:
The Pope's vacation this summer will take place in a small villa owned by the Diocese of Treviso, in the tiny hamlet of Lorenzago di Cadore, Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region, in the July 9-27 period.
In an interesting detail, the report says that the MP
[...] will be presented in a Press Conference by Cardinals Francis Arinze, Dario Castrillon Hoyos, and Julian Herranz.
The report has a quotation from the excellent Fr Nicola Bux who spoke at
launch of Fr Michael Lang's Turning Towards the Lord in Rome in April last year.
"You may write calmly [that] Pope Benedict XVI loves agreement and collaboration, and does not wish to decide everything on his own, which is why he has heard several and repeated opinions, but the Motu Proprio for the liberalization of the Latin Mass has been signed and its publication is imminent, I would say it is a matter of days."
Ma Beck, commenting on
Mulier Fortis's post on the subject hopes that it will be on her birthday, 17 June. Mine is on 1 July and it would be a good birthday present for me too!
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Ok, I don't think it's likely to be June 17 because the Holy Father is going to be in Assisi according to today's Zenit report. And 1 July is waaaay too long to wait...
It would be pretty neat if it came out on my birthday (28 June)!!
Julio Herranz has retired and written his autobiography of his days in Rome ("The Walls of Jericho" - Las murallas de Jerico). Why would he be at the press conference? Sounds like speculation again!
Or 21 June for me... :)
Bernard Fellay of SSPX "will believe it when he sees yet". He claims B16 is under severe pressure.
The Bishop of Leeds has just spent $4million on an aggressive N.O. reordering of his Cathedral, all this since the election of the Pope. I say there will be no motu proprio without very strict limitations that will render it toothless in the face of episcopal pressure.
Liturgical anarchy set to continue. Sorry Tim!
The Bishops of England and Wales, not surprisingly, are fighting this all the way. - see article in this morning's Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RQIIKEBUYF5JDQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/06/16/nmass116.xml
If they're true to past form, "the MP will not apply in E and W" will be their mantra.
I see from today's Telegraph - that our bishops are trying to block the moto proprio - typical!
Dominie
I hope it's MY birthday - June 22nd!! Come on, the feasts of not one but THREE fearless leaders of the Church on one day (Thomas More, John Fisher, and Paulinus). That's gotta be an appropriate day! ;)
Fr. Tim,
If ever proof were needed of the veracity of the old saying "Watched pots never boil," then this Motu Proprio is it!
Augustinus/Dominie:
Heck, it's attitudes like that from the Bishops that drive people away from the novus ordo Mass. Make something difficult to get and it becomes more attractive; couple with that the problems the celebration of the novus ordo Mass still has (I am talking about liturgical abuses), and it's a recipe for one of two things: either the growth of congregations where there is an indult; or where the indult is refused, the implosion of the Church.
This is why the motu proprio, in changing the indult from via affirmativa to via negativa will be so helpful - if implemented!
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