PaixLiturgique.org has reported on the liturgical conference in Paris (31 January to 2 February) attended by Francis' crusader against the Roman Rite, Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for the Liturgy.
- The conference was attended by about fifty students from the Institut Supérieur de Liturgie (ISL) in Paris and about one hundred clerical and lay liturgists from various French dioceses.
- Outsiders who wanted to attend the conference had to pay 120 euros (!), a measure to keep out unwanted guests (Catholics).
- There was only one bishop among the speakers, Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris, who had to attend ex officio because he was the host; he spoke mainly about Paris and about himself and then quickly left.
- Reverend Laurent Jullien de Pommerol of the parish in La Croix-Rousse (Lyon) and director of altar servers at the Service national de la pastorale liturgique et sacramentelle (SNPLS), was due to lead a workshop on training altar servers, but he had left the …More