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Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER Thinking with the Church—Liturgically! ......................... Joseph Koterski, S.J. ARTICLES 34 Catholic Truth in the Apostolic Tradition: The Living Apostolic Magisterium ..............................Rev. Matthew Lamb Number 2 Property as a Condition of Liberty ........................................ Jude P. Dougherty Summer 2011 What are the Doctrinal Impediments to the Reunion of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches? ............................James Likoudis The Habitus and Content of the Seminary Curriculum ........ Rev. Todd J. Lajiness How Liturgy Transforms: Cult and the Renewal of Catholic Culture The Mass of the Ages ...............................................................Ryan Topping A Note on Some Misapplications of Presbyterorum ordinis 16 .......Edward N. Peters Missing the Forest for the Trees? Spousal Sacrament and Eucharist .......................................................................Marie P. Loehr Broken Family Law Guidelines and Fixes .......Ron Grignol and Michael T. Ross And the Word became Flesh… .................................. Sister Esther Mary Nickel BOOK REVIEWS Chosen: How Christ Sent Twenty-Three Surprised Converts to Replant His Vineyard edited by Donna Steichen .....................................Kenneth D. Whitehead Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress by Raymond A. Schroth ................... Anne Barbeau Gardiner Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 by Seth Suman ...................................................................Jude Dougherty Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders. Translated and edited by Laurence Garvey ................... Jude P. Dougherty Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: A Model Theologian, 1918-2008 by Patrick W. Carey .............................................................Steven J. Meyer BOOKS RECEIVED ISSN 1084-3035 NOTICES, APPLYING FOR MEMBERSHIP, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars 2011 CONVENTION P.O. Box 495 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-5825 EX CATHEDRA www.catholicscholars.org The Good Samaritan Attends to Every Kind of Suffering ..........J. Brian Benestad J. Brian Benestad, Editor [email protected] AN Invitation to MEMBERS OF THE Fellowship FCS Quarterly • Summer 2011 1 The PresidenT’s Letter Thinking with the Church—Liturgically! Fellowship of Catholic Scholars by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. President, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Scholarship Inspired by the Holy Spirit, in Service to the Church here is need for great gratitude that the Vatican has held firm on the plan to use the first Sunday of Advent to -in ConTenTs augurate the revised translation of the liturgical texts for The presidenT’s leTTer ............................ 2 Masses celebrated in the English language according to the Tnovus ordo. It is no surprise that there have already been scholarly dis- ArTiCles Catholic Truth in the Apostolic Tradition: ..... cussions about some of the specific choices made for these revisions. The living Apostolic Magisterium ................. 4 But the calls to delay its implementation appear to be just delaying property as a Condition of liberty ............10 tactics on the part of some who see the 2011 version as an unfortu- What are the doctrinal impediments to nate return to a view of the liturgy with which they do not agree. the reunion of the Catholic and eastern Orthodox Churches? .....................................14 The importance of having an accurate English translation that The Habitus and Content of the seminary reflects both the truly prayerful style and the theological precisions Curriculum .......................................................21 of the Latin novus ordo is of wider importance than we might at how liturgy Transforms: Cult and first suspect. It pertains not only to those countries like ours whose the renewal of Catholic Culture, The Mass of the Ages ........................................26 predominant language is English. Although the official language of A note on some Misapplications the novus ordo texts remains Latin, any number of the smaller lan- of Presbyterorum ordinis ....................................33 guage groups tend to make their translations from English rather Missing the Forest for the Trees? than directly from Latin, and so it is invaluable for these regions also spousal sacrament ...........................................36 to have a splendid English translation from which translations into Broken Family law Guidelines and Fixes .............................................................39 their languages can be made. And the Word became Flesh ........................44 The corrections and improvements provided by this revision BOOK reVieWs occur at various levels. Lines from the Gloria and the Credo that Chosen: How Christ Sent Twenty-Three have been missing since the introduction of the 1973 translation, or Surprised Converts to Replant present only in some altered form, have now been restored. Many His Vineyard ........................................................ 46 an adjective that had been dropped has now been restored to us. Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress ................47 And yet this restoration of vanished words and phrases has been Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld done without producing a text that would strike anyone as exces- and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 .......49 sive, for the Roman style that produced the novus ordo was already Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to sober and severe. Restoring its judicious choices of adverbs and Neuroscience ........................................................49 Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: adjectives does wonders for the collects and the orations. Best of all, A Model Theologian ............................................50 the return of such deferential phases as “we beg you” will put an BOOKs reCeiVed .........................................51 end to a curious impression that one could perhaps get from some nOTiCes, ApplYinG FOr MeMBership, of the current version of these prayers. From the constant use of the 2011 COnVenTiOn .....................................52 imperative in the present translations, one might get the unfortunate OFFiCers And direCTOrs ......................53 idea that the priest is giving God orders about what to do. Some eX CAThedrA ...............................................54 of the restorations have considerable theological importance—in the creed, for instance, we will return to the phrase “consubstan- inVitatiOn to MeMBers OF The Fellowship ...................................55 tial” (rather than “one in being”), and in the consecration formula, pro multis will be rendered as “for many” rather than as “for all.” These points will need to be clarified in sermons, but this need will Reminder: Membership dues will be provide important opportunities for some badly needed catechesis mailed out the first of the year and are about authentic Catholic doctrine. based on a calendar (not academic) year. 2 FCS Quarterly • Summer 2011 Although there is no surprise to find resistance to for the Mystery of Faith to which these words refers is these materials coming from some quarters, the delaying the Eucharistic Christ now present on the altar. tactics are inexcusable. Among the arguments one hears Joined with this correction to what the priest says is the ironical notion that the texts that have been in use is a revision in the acclamations that will be said by for the last forty years or so are now “traditional” and the faithful. The first revision here is the elimination are so deeply ensconced in people’s minds that changes of what had probably been the option that is most of- will present grave difficulties for the faithful. But that ar- ten used (“Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will gument simply underestimates the powers of the faithful come again”). That option had been listed first among to understand and appreciate appropriate explanations. those available in the 1973 English translation, despite It is, further, quite curious that those making such argu- the fact that there is nothing in the Latin text that cor- ments did not find them persuasive during the far more responds to this option. The revised text of the three massive change in liturgical practices in the late 1960s. acclamations, which are present in the Latin novus ordo Should one encounter such an argument, the proper text, makes clear that they are prayers to Christ, and are reply, I think, is to affirm the inclination latent in this beautiful expressions of the piety that we ought to have objection about the true need to respect authentic tra- in our Lord’s presence. dition, but to insist that it is genuine Catholic tradition Here a brief comparison with the Latin text of that we need to preserve. The liturgy ought to provide a what Pope Benedict XVI has called the Extraordinary link between heaven and earth, and it would be wrong Form of the Liturgy may also be instructive. The Latin to destroy anyone’s footbridge to God. Happily, the words mysterium fidei that the novus ordo shifts to a po- changes here do not tear anything valuable down— sition just after the consecration formula are actually rather, they should be likened to the repair and beauti- within the words of consecration, pronounced over the fication of the very bridges to heaven