Friday, April 27, 2007

Two Conflicting Visions

The always-excellent Mr. Gillibrand has posted the Text of Letter from the International Council of Christians and Jews to Cardinal Kasper. It basically deals with the upcoming Motu Proprio (subito!) and it's impact on Jewish (and now Muslim) relations.

One particular section caught my eye:

The expanded validation of such prayers [in the 1962 Missal -Ed.] will rightly challenge Catholic integrity in terms of the proclamations of the past four decades. Non- Catholics can rightly ask which is the normative view when two conflicting visions are supposedly legitimized. Saying that the missal of Pope Paul VI remains the normative text, while true, does not solve the problem in our judgment.

Does that say what I think it says? Non-Catholics would rightly question which is the true view of the Church. When two viewpoints/cultures/Missals, emanating from the same juridical body, directly oppose each other, human nature dictates that a comparison is made. One is objectively better than the other.

The Non-Catholics will question.

Will Catholics question?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's a good thing I decided against donating to the IFCJ when they sent me a begging letter.