Another article on the Traditional Latin Mass

This article appeared in the July 28th edition of the Muncie Star Press. It is extremely well-written, and ignores the usual blathering of the progressive left.

Latin masses could make comeback

GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

For hundreds of years, it was the way most Christians
worshipped. Then, in the early 1970s, it nearly disappeared.
It involves a
priest speaking a "dead" language and keeping his back turned to the audience
for most of the service.


And now, thanks to a directive this month from Pope Benedict
XVI, it could start making a comeback.
Mass in Latin, currently confined to
a few parishes in each diocese, was until the early 1960s the only Mass that
Roman Catholics knew. But the church, in an effort to make Mass more
approachable, decided that worship should be conducted in the language of the
people, whatever language that might be given the locale.
Currently about
150 parishes in the U.S. now offer the Latin Mass but the liturgical books are
scarce and only a few hundred priests know the Mass. The director of the Vatican
publishing house told Catholic News Service he doesn't even know who holds the
copyright to the text.
But the pope's statement opens the door for more
churches to adopt the ancient style of worship -- a style that can be seen in
Indianapolis only at Holy Rosary parish.
There, in what was once Indy's
Italian parish, the Rev. Michael Magiera, whose priestly order specializes in
the traditional rites, conducts nine Latin Masses each week. On most weeks,
there are just three services in English.
At 7 p.m. Tuesdays, he has Latin
Mass in St. Mary's Catholic Church, 2300 W. Jackson St., Muncie.