We would appreciate if you could help us compile lists of the following:
1) Cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that have adopted ad orientem for all Masses in the 'Ordinary Form' of the Roman Rite / Novus Ordo (or at least for all Sunday Masses) in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005).
1-A) Cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that have abandoned ad orientem for all Masses in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite / Novus Ordo in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005). (Obviously this would apply only to churches that, prior to 1997 or shortly before that year were still celebrating all Novus Ordo Masses ad orientem.)
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2) Dioceses, cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that have firmly (and not just on paper) done away with communion in the hand in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005). (Information on dioceses that never accepted communion in the hand is also welcome.)
2-A) Dioceses, cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that have introduced communion in the hand since 1997 (and especially since 2005).
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3) Dioceses, cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that have done away with altar girls, or never accepted them, in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005).
3-A) Dioceses, cathedrals, basilicas and parishes that introduced altar girls in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005).
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4) Priests and bishops who have committed to say all of their publicly-attended (Novus Ordo) Masses ad orientem, at least in their own respective parishes or cathedrals, in the years since 1997 (and especially since 2005).
Naturally, parishes / oratories / chaplaincies that are exclusively dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass are excluded from these lists.
The cut-off year is established as 1997 because that was the year when then-Cardinal Ratzinger called for a "new liturgical movement". The year 2005 is also introduced as a secondary cut-off date, as that was when Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, thus giving impetus to the Reform of the Reform.
The cut-off year is established as 1997 because that was the year when then-Cardinal Ratzinger called for a "new liturgical movement". The year 2005 is also introduced as a secondary cut-off date, as that was when Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, thus giving impetus to the Reform of the Reform.
The contributors of Rorate are aware of some dioceses / cathedrals / parishes that qualify for at least one of these lists, but we are also aware that our information is incomplete, hence this post. For example, we are aware of only one bishop who qualifies for # 4 -- Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa -- and only three dioceses that qualify for # 2, namely, the Archdioceses of Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Lima (Peru) and the Diocese of Talibon (Philippines). Among dioceses that never accepted communion in the hand not just formally but also de facto, we are aware of the Diocese of San Luis in Argentina, at least when Bishop Juan Rodolfo Laise OFMCap was still its bishop. (We are not interested in listing places where communion in the hand is technically forbidden, but widely practiced and tolerated, with little or no effort being exerted to enforce the law.) We have not forgotten, of course, that since 2005, at least two countries -- Poland and Nigeria -- have adopted communion in the hand (list 2-A).
Hopefully our readers can add more examples.
Hopefully our readers can add more examples.
Please keep the combox free of polemics regarding the existence /inexistence, effectiveness / ineffectiveness or opportuneness / inopportuneness of the Reform of the Reform. There will be other times for that discussion.
