Monday, November 26, 2007

Wissman rushes in where even fools fear to tread

The print edition, but not the online edition, of the St. Joseph Foundation's November 9, 2007 Christifidelis newsletter includes the regular "Straws in the Wind" feature.

The worst...straw...ever is by Father Patrick Wissman of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Bolivar, Missouri. In the parish's September 23, 2007 bulletin, Father offered one of his "observations", this on Pope Benedict's expanded permission to use the older Latin Mass.
...I fault the use [of] Latin as partly responsible for the rise and success of Hitler and his neo-pagan mythology which was obviously the religion he was supporting and actually managed to capture the German imagination. I say the people, because of Latin never [were] confronted by the gospel. The Mass and the sacraments never really reached deep into the soul. ...

It's a veritable Godwin's Instruction for the Roman Missal.

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