Thank you, Mr. Condon, for a fair-minded, thoughtful piece on this topic. This past Sunday, I was a visitor at a diocesan TLM at a parish in the southwestern United States. The church was absolutely packed, with another 150+ parishioners overflowing outside in tents while braving 96 deg. F temperatures. The congregation was beautifully d…
Thank you, Mr. Condon, for a fair-minded, thoughtful piece on this topic. This past Sunday, I was a visitor at a diocesan TLM at a parish in the southwestern United States. The church was absolutely packed, with another 150+ parishioners overflowing outside in tents while braving 96 deg. F temperatures. The congregation was beautifully diverse, mostly Latino but people of all ages, social strata and ethnicities... a true Joycean "here comes everybody" crowd. As Mexican-American kids in their Sunday best shuffled up to the communion rail next to elderly Caucasian ladies in veils and tattooed hipsters dressed in all=black, the choir sang "Panis Angelicus" and I couldn't help but think, "What sort of ecclesiastical Grinches in Rome could look at this and think it needs to be crushed?"
Thank you, Mr. Condon, for a fair-minded, thoughtful piece on this topic. This past Sunday, I was a visitor at a diocesan TLM at a parish in the southwestern United States. The church was absolutely packed, with another 150+ parishioners overflowing outside in tents while braving 96 deg. F temperatures. The congregation was beautifully diverse, mostly Latino but people of all ages, social strata and ethnicities... a true Joycean "here comes everybody" crowd. As Mexican-American kids in their Sunday best shuffled up to the communion rail next to elderly Caucasian ladies in veils and tattooed hipsters dressed in all=black, the choir sang "Panis Angelicus" and I couldn't help but think, "What sort of ecclesiastical Grinches in Rome could look at this and think it needs to be crushed?"