Cardinal Sarah's unfortunate speech on liturgy: Distinctly Catholic: Liturgy touches us at the core of our beings. What is surprising is that so many feel the need to denounce those who view liturgical matters differently.
MGB: I have wondered whether it was St. John Paul or Benedict that was responsible for essentially bringing back the pre-Vatican II English translation of the Mass. Now we know. Perhaps it would have been better had they simply changed the language in the first place - because the words are essentially the same (save for ending references to St. Michael in certain prayers). The optics of moving the altar are important and Rome knew it could not take counter-revolution any further. The Cardinal is simply grousing that he did not get his entire agenda enacted. Boo Hoo for him.
He and Benedict have relativism wrong. Absolutism and natural law are a belief in finding truth based on the best use of reason - and in some matters EVIDENCE from real life. What the Cardinal and Benedict pined for is a kind of Catholic Relativism where the Curia and a pliant Pope declare what the truth is authoritatively and we obey. Of course, the current Pope is anything but pliant.
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