Braxton said in the Feb. 14 letter that "several" parishioners of St. Mary's had brought audio and video evidence to the bishop "which showed the many changes and omissions Fr. Rowe makes in the Mass."
"He mentioned in the letter that we clash in our ecclesiology -- our image of the church," said Rowe, 72. "He's right. He seems to consider the church as the bishops', and my notion is that the church starts with the people."
Father Rowe doesn't seem to care that it was some of his own parishioners who objected. And ecclesiology involves a good deal more than one's image of the church. Finally, the reason you have a liturgy is that all can participate. Not too easy to participate in the padre's improvised version.
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