<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Vatican directive gets mixed reactions</h1>
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<p class="">The language of liturgy and Masses has always been
controversial in the archdiocese from the past 40 years. The Bangalore
Archdiocese that today comprises Bengaluru city, Bengaluru urban, Kolar,
Tumakuru, Ramanagaram and Chickballapur, was earlier under the
Pondicherry dioscese. Members of the community in the city even today
speak Tamil and Malayalam. The language of the masses and liturgy had
gained parochial colours as Kannada was pitched against Tamil, a senior
member of the community said.</p><p class="">The issue reached the
Pope and the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Vatican,
had appointed a three Bishop Commission on March 7, 2012.</p><p class="">The
committee met several times in the city and submitted its report to the
Vatican, based on which the three-language policy has now been formed.
While English Masses have been allowed, “Each parish Pastoral Council
has to now study and make a profile of the parish community based on
which the archbishop will decide the schedule of the masses and the
language to be used in every parish,” the directive said.</p><p class=""><b>Mixed reaction</b></p><p class="">Meanwhile, the decision of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Vatican, has got mixed reaction.</p><p class="">The
Akhila Karnataka Catholic Christara Kannada Sangha has objected to the
recent directives, demanding that the Masses in the State have to be
held only in the regional language. Writer M. Chidanandamurthy, was
among the first to raise the issue.</p><p class="">However,
welcoming the decision, social activist T.J. Abraham said that the new
directives were fair and alleged that language issue was being used as a
fig leaf for power games within the archdiocese.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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