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Article: Pope to revive Tridentine Mass despite objections
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- May 27, 2007
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VATICAN CITY - It was one of the most radical reforms to emerge
from the Second Vatican Council. The Mass, root of Roman Catholic
worship, would be celebrated in the vernacular and not in Latin.
Now, little more than a generation later, Pope Benedict XVI is
poised to revive the 16th-century Tridentine Mass.
In doing so, he will be overriding objections from some cardinals,
bishops and Jews - whose complaints range from the text of the old
Mass to the symbolic sweeping aside of the council's work from 1962
to 1965. Many in the church regard Vatican II as a moment of badly
needed reform and a new beginning, a view at odds with Benedict, who
sees it as a renewal of church tradition.
A Vatican ...