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London\u2019s left wing \u2018Catholic\u2019 journal The Tablet<\/span>\u00a0has launched an attack on Fr Tim Finigan over his celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. You can read the article (and Fr Finigan\u2019s comments) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What struck me about reading the article was the petty, sniping tone. All sorts of little grumbles about people who \u2018don\u2019t like\u2019 the Latin Mass and who \u2018feel excluded\u2019 or \u2018don\u2019t understand\u2019 what is going on. Grumbles that there are no extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, no bidding prayers led by the people etc. etc.<\/div>\n
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Good heavens! What if a conservative Catholic were to write a critique of any number of groovy Novus Ordo Masses led by Fr Folkmass and Sister Sandals? It could go on and on\u2026<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s left wing \u2018Catholic\u2019 journal The Tablet\u00a0has launched an attack on Fr Tim Finigan over his celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. You can read the article (and Fr Finigan\u2019s comments) here. What struck me about reading the article was the petty, sniping tone. All sorts of little grumbles about people who \u2018don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bitter Pill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"London's left wing 'Catholic' journal The Tablet\u00a0has launched an attack on Fr Tim Finigan over his celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. 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