http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/01/fr-reginald-foster-tridentine-indult-not-going-to-happen/

You may recognize my name as Nancy and I are good friends of your parents. I found your site because, like me, you signed the pledge to stop the Senate resolution against President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq.

At any rate, with respect to the Latin Mass: As someone who was an altar boy in the early 1960s and who had memorized the Mass in Latin decades ago, I have an intimate understanding of the solemn, reverent, and universal appeal it has for those whose primary focus is to move into closer proximity with God.

It also recalls a wonderfully apposite quote from the great Catholic apologist, G.K. Chesterton, from his “Autobiograpy” (1936):

“So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called ’superstition.’ I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds, for I know vey well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.”

Yours in Christ,

Philip Mella
ClearCommentary.com