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AP sees ‘an immense shift toward the old ways’ in Church in the US
May 01, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: In a tendentious wire story, the Associated Press reports on a “shift, molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics searching for more orthodoxy,” that has “reshaped parishes across the country.”
“I don’t want my daughter to be Catholic, not if this is the Roman Catholic Church that is coming.” said one woman in a Wisconsin parish, after “contemporary hymns were replaced by music rooted in medieval Europe.” (The AP reporter was presumably referring to Gregorian chant, which the Second Vatican Council decreed “should be given pride of place in liturgical services.”)
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May. 01, 2024 11:58 AM ET USA
The "immense shift" toward Tradition is the actual ongoing renewal stated at Vatican II in Lumen Gentium (8): "Ecclesia in proprio sinu peccatores complectens, sancta simul et semper purificanda, poenitentiam et renovationem continuo prosequitur." The Church, embracing in its bosom sinners, at the same time holy and always in need of being purified, always follows the way of penance and renewal.
