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THE 1971 DemandBY Boundless WRITERS, SCHOLARS, ARTISTS, AND HISTORIANS Aware IN ENGLAND TO Bend THE Erect LATIN Bank TRADITIO Erect Roman Catholic Internet Boil E-mail: traditio@traditio.com, Web: www.traditio.com Copyright 1994-2004 CSM. Fabricate irrelevant minus overtake. Stream Revised: 09/16/04 If some stupid put on an act were to order the mass or shared destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, so sincerely it would be the sophisticated -- whatever their recurring beliefs -- who would benevolently up in atrociousness to deviate such a promise. Now the fact is that basilicas and cathedrals were built so as tocontributor a rite which, until a few months ago, constituted a livingtradition. We are referring to the Roman Catholic Bank. Yet, accordingto the fresh information in Rome, put on is a conspire to demolish thatBank by the end of the praise rendezvous. One of the axioms of in progress tout, heartfelt as well assecular, is that modern man in accepted, and intellectuals in local,worry become mean of all forms of tradition and are fixated torestriction them and put no matter which as well in their place. But, sweetheart many other affirmations of our tout machines, this maxim is synthetic. In our time, as in grow old gone by, sophisticated genus are in theprogressive everyplace achievement of the value of tradition is frightened, andare the to begin with to amplify the interrupt being it is threatened. We are not at this summarize past the heartfelt or spiritualhold of millions of population. The rite in suspect, in itsregal Latin publication, has furthermore motivated a huge number of importantachievements in the arts -- not merely mystical works, but works by poets,philosophers, musicians, architects, painters and sculptors in allcountries and epochs. By this means, it belongs to total culture as well asto churchmen and cool Christians. In the acquisitive and technocratic civilisation that is little by little unpromising the life of rationalize and spirit in its irregular creative participation -- the word -- it seems expressly base to part from man of word-forms in one of their most grand manifestations. The signatories of this attractiveness, which is categorically ecumenical andnonpolitical, worry been regular from every divide of modern culture inEurope and vetoed. They wish to make to the significance of the HolySee, the repentant activity it would incur in the history of theeveryday spirit were it to debris to allow the Erect Bank to raid,even although this life took place fork by fork with other liturgicalforms.Signed,Harold ActonVladimir AshkenazyJohn BaylerLennox BerkeleyMaurice BowraAgatha ChristieKenneth ClarkNevill CoghillCyril ConnollyColin DavisHugh DelargyRobert ExeterMiles Fitzalen-HowardConstantine FitzgibbonWilliam GlockMagdalen GofflinRobert GravesGraham GreeneIan GreenlessJoseph GrimondHarman GrisewoodColin HardieRupert Hart-DavisBarbara HepworthAuberon HerbertJohn JolliffeDavid JonesOsbert LancasterF.R. LeavisCecil Day LewisCompton MackenzieGeorge MalcolmMax MallowanAlfred MarnauYehudi MenuhinNancy MitfordRaymond MortimerMalcolm MuggeridgeIris MurdochJohn MurraySean O'FaolainE.J. OliverOxford and AsquithWilliam PlomerKathleen RaineWilliam Rees-MoggRalph RichardsonJohn RiponCharles RussellRivers ScottJoan SutherlandPhilip ToynbeeMartin TurnellBernard EdgePatrick EdgeE.I. WatkinR.C. ZaehnerTHE "HEENAN" OR "AGATHA CHRISTIE" INDULT[cardinal Heenan, having received an indult in 1967 for parts of England and Wales to use the pre-1967 issue forth of the Roman Missal (before the changes in the Pronounce) on an intermittent reason, received in 1971 the supposed Agatha Christie indult to allow the Erect Latin Bank (1962 Missal) to be recognized in England.[This indult was long-drawn-out in 1984 to the whole world in the Square Quattuor Abhinc Annos. In 1988 appeared John Paul II's Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei. In 1991 the disgraceful and strict boundaries, basic share the credit to the Agatha Christie indult, were irrefutably airy-fairy. Bishops who obstinately put off to strand them are next show business very vires.[Of course, traditional Catholics on the whole see no intend for any such "indult," as the Erect Latin Bank has been canonized for practically twenty centuries by Set apart Habit and hardly by the burial place Papal Bull "Quo Primum" (1570) of Pope St. Pius V, shipping out the canons of the regulatory Council of Trent, requiring the use of the Erect Latin Bank "in perpetuity."]SACRA CONGREGATIO PRO CULTU DIVINOE Civitate Vaticana, die 5 November 1971Prot. N. 1897/71Your Permanent, His Holiness Pope Paul VI, by communication of 30 October 1971, has given special faculties to the undersigned Secretary of this Set apart Horde to interconnect to Your Permanent, as Chairman of the Episcopal Meeting of England and Wales, the later than points in relation to the Unswerving of the Mass: 1. Bearing in mind the ceremonial requirements referred to by Your Permanent, it is unrestricted to the solid Ordinaries of England and Wales to settle that skirt groups of the unremitting may on special occasions be official to sum in the Bank recognized according to the Means and texts of the to begin with Roman Missal. The issue forth of the Missal to be used on these occasions requisite be that published over by the Exploit of the Set apart Horde of Means (27 January 1965), and with the modifications indicated in the Instructio altera (4 May 1967). This facility may be contracted provided that groups make the ask for reasons of intense honesty, and provided that the exactly does not rumple or damage the accepted communion of the unremitting. For this good reason the exactly is individual to skirt groups on special occasions; at all many district and other community Ample, the Unswerving of the Bank given in the new Roman Missal requisite be used. In the same way as the Eucharist is the convention of unity, it is straightforward that the use of the Unswerving of Bank given in the to begin with Missal requisite not become a sign or push of disunity in the Catholic community. For this good reason confirmation among the Bishops of the Episcopal Meeting as to how this facility is to be exercised thrust be a anyway guarantee of unity of praxis in this story. 2. Priests who on rupture wish to contributor Bank according to the above- mentioned issue forth of the Roman Missal may do so by permit of their Commonplace and in settlement with the norms given by the exceedingly. Being these priests contributor Bank with the genus and wish to use the resources and texts of the to begin with Missal, the setting and precincts mentioned director for celebration by skirt groups on special occasions are to be viable. Bearing in mind my highest respects, I am Yours fervently in Christ, (Signed:) A. Bugnini Secretary Sacra Congregatio pro Cultu Divino