{"id":6753,"date":"2006-07-20T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/sit-down-with-the-bishop.html"},"modified":"2006-07-20T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T11:44:57","slug":"sit-down-with-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/sit-down-with-the-bishop.html","title":{"rendered":"Sit-down with the Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Cary McMullen, excellent religion reporter for the Lakeland Ledger, has an interesting Q & A with Bishop Wenski of Orlando.<\/a><\/p>\n

They talk about church growth (an enormous issue down there, especially with the priestly vocations dearth, which the Bishop is working hard to remedy.), immigration (one of his big issues – he was very involved with the Haitian community in South Florida), and this last question:<\/p>\n

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Q. You just came back from the bishops’ semi-annual meeting. The news reports that came out of that meeting were talking about the changes to the Mass. Is it too early to comment on those changes?<\/p>\n

A. As I tell people, they’re not changes to the Mass, they’re changes to the translation.<\/strong> They certainly will not be as abrupt and earth-shattering as the changes of the early 1970s, when we went from something completely in Latin to the vernacular. . . . (The Vatican) wants a closer adherence to the Latin, and part of that is aesthetic as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bold my emphasis: simple, concise talking point. Copy that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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