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\u2026 this story<\/a> reminds me of a local parish I visited once where the priest changed the Agnus Dei to something like, \u201cProtector of the Earth, you take away our carbon footprint\u201d and some other such nonsense. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn a rare letter of explanation about an internal personnel dispute, Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Ill., publicly responded to the firing of the Rev. William Rowe, who has been pastor of St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Carmel, Ill., for 18 years.<\/em><\/p>\n

Braxton said in the Feb. 14 letter that several parishioners of St. Mary\u2019s had brought audio and video evidence to the bishop \u201cwhich showed the many changes and omissions Fr. Rowe makes in the Mass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowe said that when he prays the Roman Missal \u2014 the book of prayers, chants and responses used during the Mass \u2014 he tends \u201cto change the words that are written in the book to match what I was talking about\u201d in the homily.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe mentioned in the letter that we clash in our ecclesiology \u2014 our image of the church,\u201d said Rowe, 72. \u201cHe\u2019s right. He seems to consider the church as the bishops\u2019, and my notion is that the church starts with the people<\/strong>.\u201d full article<\/a> <\/p>\n

Hmm. The same \u201cpeople\u201d who went to the Bishop in objection of the improvised prayers. The source and summit of the Church is the Eucharists, not the people. Even my nine year old knows that. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"