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Brad Miner
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David Warren
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On the validity of forms
Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The case of a young Detroit priest who was invalidly baptized and, therefore, invalidly ordained was quickly resolved. But it points to a larger, serious problem. After Vatican II, they allowed free-lancing. Priests began to add their own tropes to the language of the Missal, to “correct” translations they did not like, eventually to invent their own extemporaneous Eucharistic prayers.