Via Yahoo:
The Vatican insisted Friday that lay people must not deliver sermons or preach the Gospel during Mass, issuing a new directive to crack down on practices that are becoming increasingly frequent in the United States and Europe.
It also talks about avoiding syncretism, perhaps to the point of excluding contextualization. I find it interesting that there’s an increased emphasis on clergy, when the world seems to be shifting more into a I-can-do-it-myself spirituality.
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“I-can-do-it-myself spirituality” — Hmmmm. Maybe the growing aversion to the notion of “clergy” is more connected to our individualism than we care to consider or admit.
The Vatican certainly does want people reading the Bible and thinking for themselves. The truth as the Catholic Church sees it is, people cannot “carry on the functions of the church without the hierarchy,” all they can do is delude themselves that without the hierarchy they are still “the church.” In fact, without the hierarchy, anything they do is no longer a “function of the Church,” but rather an individualistic, do-it-yourself spirituality that has nothing to do with Catholicism. So if the faith is the Vatican’s “territory,” then yes one could say that it is protecting it.