Full participation before all else

This editorial in the National Catholic Reporter on

Summorum Pontificum [12 pp. pdf], Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter allowing greater use of the Tridentine Mass

concludes,

Rembert Weakland, then archbishop of Milwaukee, wrote what must now be seen as a prophetic article in America magazine in 1999 that warned of a creeping rubricism and movement to reinterpret Vatican II to assure validity and orthodoxy. Like Weakland, we have to ask: "Can the two, the reform of the liturgy and the reform of the church, be separated?"

Diogenes at Off the Record commented in this post that

The NCR was knocked so far off-balance by the challenge as to invoke Rembert Weakland in defense of its position, which is something like calling Paul Shanley as a character witness.

Grant Gallicho at dotCommonweal, in turn, reacted in this post.

I suppose comparing Weakland to Hitler would have been too passe for a man of Diogenes' rhetorical gifts.

You might recall that in an August 31, 1998 letter to Paul Likoudis, Archbishop Weakland wrote,

...I believe you come as close to being a truly evil person as I expect to meet in my lifetime.

If we use Archbishop Weakland as the measure of rhetorical gifts, then Mr. Gallicho has failed to score a point against Diogenes.