I am following how the Pope's MP is being handled at Universities. One of those Universities is the well known Catholic University of Steubenville in Ohio.
For those not aware of this university it is still the icon of America Catholic Orthodoxy in the Catholic college setting. However it has its detractors from the segments of the orthodox too.
Father Z has a fascinating post that gives us a glimpse of this at Franciscan University at Steubenville and Summorum Pontificum - UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY . What I find interesting, and sad at the same time, is how people are trying to pit the so called "traditionalist" and the "Charismatic" camps against each other. I think this is foolish and in fact goes against what Christ through his Church has been saying. It is a good read to go through all the updates. However let me make my contribution to one comment. I should note that I AM NOT a Charismatic Catholic. A person wrote:
I found the comment about the charismatic movement giving way to the traditional interesting. When I was at another Catholic college in the East (1996-2000), I was a part of the choir. We sang mostly Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant for our Sunday Mass. A very high percentage of us were the children of parish musicians/music directors and we had grown up in or in the atmosphere of the charismatic movement. And we all moved away from it toward a more traditional expression of the faith. With time, so have the parents of many of these people, but their children moved first. It was and remains an interesting phenomenon to me. I have doubts about the charismatic movement revealing itself to be the traditional movement. Too many charismatics have left the Church for Protestant charismatic groups. I think there are many reasons for this, but don’t want to send to long an email.
May I suggest quite the opposite. IF one has a Bishop that knows what they are doing the opposite can occur. I am thinking about my home state of Louisiana. Bishop Jacobs used to be Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria. This is in the hotbed of Pentecostalism in the US. He is a Charismatic. He embraced that movement and the result was people staying not leaving!!!! We see possible fruits of that because that Diocese still has tons of vocations. That is not the result of just the Charismatic movement but of many things. Still I am very wary of people talking about these "movements" almost in political like terms. Both IMHO are fruits of the Spirit.
Below is an official statement from Franciscan University of Steubenville on the initiation of the Traditional Latin Mass for the Franciscan community, released October 26, 2007. You are welcome to post it on other blog sites that have been running threads on this topic.
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Tom Sofio
Associate Director
Public Relations
Franciscan University of Steubenville
tsofio@franciscan.edu
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Regarding the Traditional Latin Mass and Franciscan University of Steubenville
As a Catholic university with a long history of faithfulness to the magisterium of the Catholic Church, Franciscan University of Steubenville fully supports Pope Benedict XVI’s recent Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, which expands the use of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Franciscan University fully supports the plans for the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Latin rite Mass at St. Peter Church in Steubenville. Franciscan University is located within the boundaries of St. Peter Parish, making it the official parish for the University and the repository for the records of any sacraments celebrated on the campus.
Summorum Pontificum indicates that it is the parish priest who is to accede to the requests of those attached to the previous liturgical tradition. The pastor of St. Peter Parish, Monsignor George Yontz, with the full support of Steubenville Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, has met with St. Peter parishioners, including Franciscan University students, and people from other parishes in the area. He is working with them to prepare for the proper celebration of Mass in the extraordinary form, and the University will remain in communication with him throughout this unfolding process.
The University is pleased that St. Peter’s will be the site for this, as it is easily accessible to our University members, being just one mile from campus. The University will provide transportation for students who need it to and from St. Peter’s Church for the traditional Latin rite Masses.
The first traditional Latin rite Mass will be celebrated at St. Peter’s on Sunday, November 25, the Feast of Christ the King. The dates of future Masses will be announced later by the parish office.
As the oldest Catholic church in the Steubenville diocese, St. Peter’s has the high altar, communion railing, and other requirements to celebrate the extraordinary form of the Latin rite, which are not found in many area churches. It will provide a beautiful and fitting setting in which interested students can enter more fully into this ancient liturgy.
Franciscan University will continue to offer its monthly Latin Novus Ordo Mass. In October, the University expanded the Sunday Mass offerings from three to four, with Sunday Mass now offered at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.