Sure, change the text of your main worship activity to near incoherence, then blame your Church's problems on President Obama. I'm sure he was consulted as part of that process

The Roman Catholic Mass is scripted by the Missale Romanum and its translations. Starting last November, Catholic parishes started using a new translation (based on a new revision of the Missale) developed under translation principles designed to satisfy the longing among some vociferous Catholic traditionalists for words as incomprehensible as the Latin used to be to most Catholics. Ultimately, though the new Missal translation failed to follow the guidelines set forth to hamstring the English traslation that was submitted in 1998, the 2010 translation is now the required wording for use in the Mass.

I can't give any examples off the top of my head...couldn't take more than about 8 months of the new dreck. Oooh, yeah, "for many, that sins may be forgiven" instead of "for all" -- that one does stick with me. But you have to check out some of the prayers that the priest says...I tend to lose count of the commas even in one sentence. And they brought back "through my fault, my fault, my most greivious fault" and the beating of the breast in the Confiteor.

Well the Church has spent the last 11 years (since Liturgiam Authenticum was promulgated) preparing to and shooting itself in the foot. I thought that blaming it on Obama, who obivously was not even in federal office for that whole duration and has no decision-making power in -- or even discernable connection to -- the Church was a good joke, but blaming him for choices made while he was still a child is . Thanks for the laugh.

It's like the classic Republican ploy: make sure something bad happens, then blame the other party to get yourself re-elected.

Remember people walking out of Church when priests read the USCCB voters guide at Mass?

In my diocese of Scranton, Bishop Martino was notorious for these stunts. He publicly stated Biden would not receive Communion in his diocese during the 2008 campaign. He retired early for reasons never full explained.

He was a young man, in his early 60's I believe. His resignation was accepted without delay by the pope. I know that he was controversial. Were the problems faced by the Scranton diocese exacerbated by his demand for absolute obedience to his dictates? I can't help from wondering if the CCB and the pope were deluged with letters from the parishioners calling for his to step down.

He was a careerist from the Philadelphia Archdiocese and the Scranton Diocese seemed to be his reward. Then he got swept up in the rightwing Catholic rhetoric and 2008 and became overtly political, although rather ineptly. Soon after he resigned. I suspect he drew too much attention and then old resentments from Philadelphia, which is often the case with careerists, were exploited. Poof he's gone. But that's only my speculating.

I do know that my daughter is getting confirmed on October 27 and Martino's predecessor, Bishop Timlin who is in his 80s, will do it. I've heard very little about Martino since he resigned.