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Article: Factors work against impact of pope's decision on Latin Mass
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2007
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Rebecca Stich, 17, was pleased with Pope Benedict XVI's new
apostolic letter allowing and promoting wider use of the pre-
Vatican II Latin Mass.
So was Mary Ellen Gremore, 85, another of the 400 people who
regularly attend such Masses at St. Stanislaus Church on the city's
near south side as the only sanctioned Tridentine Mass community in
the 10-county Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
"I think it's something that people should experience," said
Stich, of Brookfield, who has gone from asking her father, "Oh, man,
do we have to go?" to considering the formal services a more
reverential, sacred experience.
Hailed by traditionalists, the pope's letter made some Catholics
concerned that it might signal ...