Preserving Christian Publications, Inc. TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC BOOKS ____________________________________________ Offering More than 5,500 Used and Out-of-Print Catholic Titles Availiable in our Printed Catalogs and on Our Web Site www.pcpbooks.net And 35 Books in Print Selected from Catholic Classics & Important Books for Our Time Catalog 189 September 2020 Preserving Christian Publications, Inc. is a tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation devoted to the preservation of our Catholic heritage. All charitable contributions toward its used-book and publishing activities (not including payments for book purchases) are tax-deductible. The Admirable Heart of Mary The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy by St. John Eudes by Father Adrian Fortescue “Essentially the Missal of Pius V is the Gregorian Sacramentary; that again is formed from the Gelasian book, St. John Eudes reveals to his disciples how which depends on the Leonine collection. We Our Lady’s heart was the first-fruit of Her find the prayers of our Canon in the treatise de Divine Son’s Passion, given to all of Mary’s Sacramentis and allusions to it in the IVth children, that it might be honored, cherished, century. So our Mass goes back, without essential invoked and, ultimately, with that of her Son, change, to the age when it was first developed out reproduced in them. This is the essence of St. of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of John Eudes’ spirituality which spilled over that liturgy, of the days when Caesar ruled the into the foundation of many religious world and thought he could stamp out the faith of congregations, literary works and, of course, Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a the practice of heroic virtue. This doctrine is foundation for the hymn to Christ as to a God. 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Not only was his own decision in on public worship, concerned Catholics rejoiced at this conformity with the universal laws of the Church, but also the defense of the rights of the Church against government decisions of Episcopal Conferences to introduce a widespread interference. The action of the Minnesota bishops followed practice of Communion in the hand were in violation of those the example of former papal nuncio to the United States, laws. Bishop Laise’s courage in defending the Church’s Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who had called attention to legislation prompted the warm and respectful praise for him similar interference by the Italian government with the from Bishop Athanasius Schneider, in the preface he wrote Church’s authority, in violation of the Lateran Treaty. for the Italian edition, now reproduced in translation in the While these recent developments in Church-State American edition. relations remind us of the proper role of the Church in society, An ecclesiastical law can be temporarily suspended in a there has been a parallel development within the Church case of emergency. The assumption has been made that such herself, concerning the Church’s laws regarding the reception is the case with the reception of Communion during the of Holy Communion during the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus pandemic, but at times this is done without an Among theologians and canonists, the question has examination of the medical evidence. The universal Church recently been raised whether bishops, in the emergency established the practice of Communion on the tongue as the brought about by the coronavirus, can suspend the right of the norm, and did this for a number of reasons. Since faithful to receive Communion on the tongue, on the Communion in the hand was only introduced by ignoring assumption that this traditional manner of receiving these reasons, subsequent epidemics even before the Communion is more likely to spread the disease. This coronavirus have provided occasions for trying to justify the medical assumption was challenged by Prof. Filippo Maria violation of the Church’s universal laws, in the context of a Boscia, President of the Association of Catholic Doctors in contrary custom that was not in conformity with those laws, Italy, and by a group of Austrian Catholic physicians. The but which an effort is being made to legitimize by using the manner in which the assumption is made overlooks current pandemic. fundamental principles regarding the Church’s liturgical The recent action of the Minnesota bishops provides an legislation and its application. For the question is not whether example of the proper exercise of episcopal authority in a right can be temporarily suspended for the common good, another related context. Archbishop Viganò pointed out that but whether a law can be suspended on the basis of certain the national Episcopal Conferences have no authority to medical assumptions. impose on individual bishops a policy of closing churches. The decision of the Minnesota bishops illustrates the fact that The distinction between a law and a right is interpreted it is individual bishops, either by themselves or in groups, in different ways by moral philosophers and theologians, but who interpret and apply the Church’s laws, and not national the common teaching is that a right is derived from a law, Episcopal Conferences when these go beyond the limits of whether it be divine law or human law, ecclesiastical or civil.