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by Jim Holman.
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JANUARY 2002 LETTERS

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It was just about a month ago when I heard Father Michael Pham, the vocation director for the diocese, preach at the 10:00 a.m. Mass at Queen of Angels in Alpine. He was talking about the shortage of vocations in the diocese of San Diego. He went on to say that there will not be another ordination class in San Diego for three years. I was not too shocked to hear this -- considering what has been reported by your newspaper in the past several years.

I am a firm believer that the biggest threat to Bishop Brom, as was reported in your paper some time ago, is not a liberal seminarian, but a conservative one faithful to the Magisterium. The statement by Fr. Pham confirms to me that liberal dioceses have vocation shortages, and conservative dioceses (Lincoln, Nebraska, for example) do not. It is too bad that there are not that many Bishop Fabian Bruskewitzes in church leadership positions here in America.

I applaud you for your terrific newspaper. I like it a lot better than the "official" paper of the diocese.

Edward Kasprzycki

El Cajon


IS THIS WHAT MSGR. KRAFT WANTED?

It was with a very sad heart that I read the article "Not Just Porcelain Figurines" in [the November] issue of News Notes. Not so much for what was written but for what was left unsaid.

All of the theatrics displayed by the Chorus Breviarii doesn't take away from the fact that two Novus Ordo funeral Masses were sung in Latin using the traditional Gregorian Missa de Requiem. Do you suppose that is what Msgr. Kraft requested before he died when he asked for a Latin Mass funeral? The term Latin Mass has always been used for the Tridentine Mass. And I wonder now how Msgr. Kraft felt about the funeral Mass said for him, including the sermon which quoted an Anglican bishop and the Our Father with the Protestant ending? Is this what we are to expect in the future: And, if so, will we soon be seeing our Sunday Mass at Holy Cross (i.e. the Traditional Mass) in Novus Ordo fashion sung in Latin?

I see here unraveling before me a very clever but devious manner of foisting the Novus Ordo Mass on the traditional congregation, and it breaks my heart to think that this could happen. This is precisely the manner in which Archbishop Cranmer foisted the Anglican Mass onto the unsuspcting Roman Catholic Church in England at the time of the English reformation.

James Bartley

Talmadge Park

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