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LETTERS
JULY/AUGUST 1998

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A FORM OF PUBLIC CONFESSION

Your letters to the editor are fascinating for the number of Catholic priests who write about how they are ashamed by the hatefulness of your publication and request that their names be removed from your mailing list.

I find this form of public confession to be as sad as it is anti-Catholic. It is no wonder that the mass is becoming more and more of a Protestantized ritual in which its reality is subverted by a disordered and emotional will to power which fuels the engine of relativism and false piety.

Being a Catholic does not relieve anyone from being rational nor does it in any way lessen anyone's obligation to the Truth, for Christ is the Truth, and the Church is His.

To deny the rational discussion of ideas, practices and errors, or the possibility of error, is a claim to being more than human or less than human. It is certainly not Catholic, and it is wholly inappropriate to the obligations of the priesthood.

George E. Mohun
Novato


LATIN MASS REVIVAL

I have just finished reading your fine interview with Fr. Rizzo about the Latin Mass community in Sacramento and the good work the Fraternity of St. Peter is doing for those who treasure the traditions of the Catholic Church [see "A Sense of Reverence", June].

St. Margaret Mary in Oakland has offered the Latin Mass for over eight and a half years, drawing parishioners from not only Alameda county, but San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin county and Contra Costa county.

Fr. Arnaud Devellers, Superior of the Fraternity in the United States, and Fr. Rizzo recently visited the Latin Mass community at St. Margaret Mary while in the area to meet with Archbishop Levada and Bishop Cummins. It is the hope and the desire of all who comprise this group that the Fraternity will soon be welcomed into this area.

It is a source of some pride that two former parishioners of St. Margaret Mary are at present Fraternity of St. Peter seminarians, a third is stationed in the Atlanta area and a fourth, who was actually a priest serving in another diocese, learned the Latin Mass at our church, later joined the Fraternity and is now doing his work in New Jersey.

Thank you for providing such important and hopeful news to your readership.

Arden Glass
Castro Valley

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