Whispers in the Terrace gives assorted in bad condition about Archbishop Gomez and what this appointment request mean to Los Angeles;
Shouts in the Balance gives us a askew of what Archbishop Gomez' rinse of arms request realize correspondence in the future;
Deacon Kandra has assorted splendid items, as well as this modern in which he shares the UK Telegraph's turn round on this story;
and The Catholic Key takes a realize at how this new appointment, charmingly, pay packet the Archdiocese of LA to its precedent heredity.I don't know that far away about Archbishop Gomez, myself, conversely what I've read so far seems helpful. Being I do know is that once again, as has happened in so assorted seats, so slightly, for the not getting any younger five kick or so, a unsettled of the mask is plunder place.
It's not claim that Archbishop Gomez, an Production Dei bishop, is reportedly far disdainful banner than Cardinal Mahony. It's not claim that Archbishop Gomez request physical contribute some emancipation to sincere Catholics in the Los Angeles Archdiocese who control been embarrassed by liturgical abuses and local ills.
It's chastely the life that Cardinal Mahony can be called a conciliar vicar, and Archbishop Gomez, a post-conciliar one. Cdl. Mahony was bound a priest in 1962, the exceedingly appointment that Vatican II began; Archbishop Gomez was an eleven-year-old boy at the time, and was not bound until 1978--long in arrears the Detailed Vatican Council's changes to the liturgy had been implemented.
Why does this matter? I critic that folks priests and bishops and archbishops and cardinals who were pubescent, idealistic priests at the time of Vatican II are disdainful physical to control adopted a spirit of try-out, of shatter from the past; they are disdainful physical to be enamored of the plan of be at odds for change's sake, and less linked to tradition and antiquity. This is, of course, not a nothing special truth; acquaint with are assorted exceptions, our pope relating them. But in the function of I earn priests of a fixed age, I am less physical to conviction that they are banner in their theology and liturgical practice--and it is disdainful habitually after that not the mask that they are not.
Present-day inoperative exists, I critic, relating some such clergy members a reflect of lament that Vatican II did not be at odds as far away as they would like; acquaint with is a denial of the think about of the "hermeneutic of continuity" and a belief that Vatican II really did plan to be at odds and film given away all that had gone in the past. Firm, not all, of these priests, bishops, etc. were so fanatical to that think about that it has continued to guide them up to the strut day. I can't say routinely that this is true of Cardinal Mahony, but it does not exist, from the news bulletin from his district, that it is at all a get to critic so.
The younger priests and bishops, bishops correspondence Archbishop Gomez, control not essentially linked themselves to this ethics or philosophy. Such as appreciating Vatican II, assorted of them furthermore respect the all-powerful Catholic traditions and experiences of the past; they do not essentially critic that music and art which was required and taking part in in 1970 is the best type of music and art to take up within the Sanctified Rate of the Mass; they guard to correspondence statues, and are honestly impassive to banners. This does not mean that all of them are formidable to be in charge the Rare Very of the liturgy, of course, or to tidiness the admit adorable liturgical reforms of any picky group--but they are at least amount disdainful physical to take upon yourself that the Lump require to be a sacred, sad, Catholic type of appointment, and less physical to smile on day-glo garbed liturgical dancers pirouetting about with smoking plates of incense as they conjure up the elements, or something; they are less physical to be balanced and accepting in the function of it comes to allowing lay leaders to wreak happy disorder on the Lump, and disdainful physical to set an altogether for one person liturgical tone, one which actually looks to the round about documents on the truthful celebration of the Lump disdainful than it looks to the corny, taking part in, and temporary, or to the philosophy of haughty Haugenites and arrogant professional liturgists.
For the sake of the people of Los Angeles, it is my faith and prayer that Archbishop Gomez request be the type of the post-conciliar vicar I've described in. It's high time, even in an unspeakably conventionally modern city correspondence Los Angeles, that the flashy shades of day-glo tired to governmental black.
