"Letting Go" and America Magazine

Fr. Michael Ryan

A prominent Catholic pastor in Seattle is “letting go” of his campaign against a new Latinized translation of the church liturgy, but not his convictions in starting it. “It is the people who will have the last word on the new missal once it is introduced,” Fr. Michael Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral, said in a Sunday morning homily. Ryan caused a national stir, among Catholic priests, bishops and scholars, when he wrote a critical 2009 article for the Jesuit magazine America. He launched a campaign entitled “What if we said ‘Wait’?” aimed at taking a second look — involving the laity — at liturgical handiwork of the Vatican’s powerful, insular Congregation for Divine Worship.

Link (here) to the The Seattle Post