Care for the Church and Its Liturgy by Johnston William

Author:Johnston, William [Johnston, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780814662946
Publisher: The Liturgical Press
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

1 [This and all subsequent CGF quotes are my translation of Con Grande Fiducia. Italian original published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 99, no. 9 (2007): 795–99.—Trans.]

2 This understanding of Pope Benedict found expression also in the instruction of the PCED, Universae Ecclesiae, which states that “Diocesan Bishops, according to Canon Law, are to monitor liturgical matters in order to guarantee the common good and to ensure that everything is proceeding in peace and serenity in their Dioceses, always in agreement with the mens of the Holy Father clearly expressed by the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum” (no. 13).

3 Ratzinger, God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald, trans. Henry Taylor (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002), 455.

4 Ibid., 456.

5 Ibid. See also Ratzinger, “Church Movements and Their Place in Theology,” in Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith, 176–208; for example: “The local Churches too, however, and even the bishops, have to be told that they should not indulge in any pursuit of uniformity in their pastoral arrangements or planning. They should not set up their own pastoral plans as a yardstick of what the Holy Spirit is allowed to do” (207). See also Ratzinger, Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996), 100.

6 The phrase of Grotius, etsi Deus non daretur, was common in the writings of John Paul II, and addressing the issues it raises was of concern to Ratzinger as well. See, for example, “Europe’s Crisis of Culture,” in The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings and Speeches, ed. John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 325–35, at 334–35; or the brief reference in a liturgical context in Joseph Ratzinger, Milestones: Memoirs 1927–1977 (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, n.d. [1998]), 149.

7 “The World by Countries: Religionists, Churches, Ministries,” in World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, ed. David B. Barrett, George T. Kurian, Todd M. Johnson, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1:1.

8 Ibid.

9 See Todd M. Johnson, David B. Barrett, and Peter F. Crossing, “Christianity 2010: A View from the New Atlas of Global Christianity,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 34, no. 1 (2010): 29. The authors, from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, foresee Christianity expanding to 33.8 percent by 2025, and to 35 percent by 2050. The most rapid growth is in Pentecostal forms of Christianity. On this, see, for example, Allan Anderson, An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

10 Christophe Geffroy, Benoît XVI et “la paix liturgique” (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2008), 10.

11 Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, Constitutione Apostolica 19–20. The exemption was granted only for Masses without a congregation; further, it was not for use of the 1962 Missal as such, but for that Missal using “the rites and texts now in use” (DOL 209 at no. 1751), that is, as emended in 1965 and 1967. This instruction was issued on October 20, 1969, half a year

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