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okasha

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7. The switch to the vernacular Mass

Reply to cbayer (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:45 PM

Mar 2013

and turning the celebrant around to face the congregation put greater ernphasis on the members and less on the clergy. It was a huge psychological shift. Vatican II also widened the scope of the religious orders. The Nuns on the Bus are the spiritual descendants of those first sisters who left their habits in the closet and went into the inner cities to build the current network of Catholic social services. JPII was responsible for the hard right turn the church took after Paul VI.

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A good overview of trends in the Catholic Church [View all] kwassa Mar 2013 OP

Good synopsis and, unfortunately, they have done little to address these problems cbayer Mar 2013 #1

Having closely watched the struggle in the Episcopal church kwassa Mar 2013 #2

While the church will never be free of politics, the insular nature of RCC control cbayer Mar 2013 #3

Any substantive change in unlikely. kwassa Mar 2013 #4

How did they make the changes previously? cbayer Mar 2013 #5

But those were simply relaxations of practice skepticscott Mar 2013 #6

The switch to the vernacular Mass okasha Mar 2013 #7

Love Nuns on the Bus. Perhaps they will lead the charge for change and cbayer Mar 2013 #8

I like the addition by subtraction part Promethean Mar 2013 #9