More Comments again

More Comments First something you will find amazing. I am agreement with the Laird on his article this week. He deals with the history of the word "Consubstantial" in the Creed and shows how the word was introduced after Nicea and then expresses his disagreement with the change of the word in the English Creed. My point is that the word has no meaning at all for the average P.I.P (person in pew) whereas the old translation "of same being" is the best translation possible for the word Consubstantialem in the Creed. It then has meaning for P.I.P.
LETTER IN CAPSULE from a Mr Burleigh who objects to Cardinals being called "Princes of the Church" He also objects to the majority of new CArdinals being from the Roman Curia and says it marks further evidence of a falterning Church stumbling backwards to a pre Vatican 2 presentation of itself....How have we arrived in 50 years to a curial centre more powerful than in Renaissance and post Tridentine days pre Vatican 1. Whatever happened to collegiality and the teachings of Vat 2 on episcopacy.? Well if there has been any going back, it is because some Bishops in the Church have gone too far the other way and all sorts of modernism and liberation theology need curbing from centre.!
ANOTHER LETTER From a Mr Loughran takes issue with Bishop Stack who had objected to this idea of "presumed organ donation" whereby your body can be cut up by doctors after death unless you opt out. I agree totally with Bishop Stack. Organ donation must be entirely voluntary.
IN THE CATHOLIC HERALD on page 7 we find a picture of one of those dreadful modernist church built in the 60's onwards. This one in South Ruislip London. It appears that the Congregation for Divine Worship is to issue guidelines in an attempt to ensure that future buildings avoid the desacralising atmosphere of many of these churches. The author of the accompanying article clearly likes these modernistic monstrosities including the one illustrated. The altar at the apex and the Blessed Sacrament tucked away in a wall behind. He then raves on about the post Vatican 2 changes which he says in practice if not in intention reoriented the practice of the liturgy away from the sanctuary and into the nave from the altar to the COMMUNITY AT THE ALTAR.! Encouraging people in the space to enagage as a corporate entity as EQUAL PARTS OF A SINGULAR AND INCLUSIVE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD...however unattractive to some are robust manifestations of the renewed theology of Vat 2.!!