{"id":7982,"date":"2004-02-06T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/word_from_rome_22.html"},"modified":"2004-02-06T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T16:01:07","slug":"word_from_rome_22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/word_from_rome_22.html","title":{"rendered":"Word from Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcatholicreporter.org\/word\/\">Word from Rome is up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting stuff on the anniversary of the Lateran Pacts and his perspective on the PX anti-ecumenism credo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other than the pope, the villain of the story as told by the Lefebvrites is Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who is accused of heresy three times in the 50-page document.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there isn\u2019t one word on what has long been the signature issue for the Lefebvrites: the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass. This confirms what experts have always understood, that the Latin Mass is the tip of the iceberg. The real theological issues, such as ecumenism and inter-faith relations, run much deeper. This is why, Vatican experts on traditionalism say, it was futile to believe that allowing permission for wider celebration of the pre-conciliar Mass, as John Paul did in 1988, would solve the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from Rome is up Interesting stuff on the anniversary of the Lateran Pacts and his perspective on the PX anti-ecumenism credo: Other than the pope, the villain of the story as told by the Lefebvrites is Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who is accused of heresy three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Word from Rome - 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