To the Right or to the Left?
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Ad Orientem
Ratzinger talks “Ad Orientem” (2003)
Cardinal Ratzinger’s English is *fantastic* (as this video shows).
“Table Altar” vs. “High Altar” (Novus Ordo)
It’s incorrect to say new Churches must be constructed with table altars.
“Ad Orientem” • Archbishop Naumann’s Letter
“…there are, in the core of the Church’s sacramental teaching and experience, good contentions and corollary arguments to be made for both practices.” —Archbishop Naumann
Bishop of Manchester • Letter Re: “Ad Orientem”
A $12,000 reward will be given to anyone who can produce a Vatican II document mentioning “celebration facing the people.”
Chief Reasons For Mass “Facing The People”
Are you being rude to people sitting in pews behind you?
“Ad Orientem” • Why I’m Rejoicing over Sloppy Errors in the Catholic Herald
His assertion that “smoking out enemies” is best done by appointing them to high positions in the Vatican is absurd.
Major Media Outlet Re: “Ad Orientem”
Corpus Christi Watershed is mentioned and cited!
“Ad Orientem” and Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
The people deserve to know the truth. It is time for ignorance to end so that the faithful may develop informed opinions.
Does Your Bishop Enforce The GIRM?
They will assume—and why shouldn’t they?—that “approved by the USCCB” applies to the hymns and songs…