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Abstract
In light of the move to the right manifested in the recent changes to the Roman Rite, this essay seeks to add an Africentric and postcolonial critique to other recent liturgical and linguistic critiques of the new rite by liturgy scholars and pastors. I argue that the new translation is an attack on not only Vatican II principles but also on black Catholic theological principles, the black Catholic community, and oppressed populations in general. The essay seeks to locate the racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism behind the imperialist nostalgia of Liturgiam Authenticam by revisiting the 1960s and the issues and movements to which the Second Vatican Council was a response. I make the argument that this present translation and the imperialist motivations behind it should be countered with a renewed effort from black Catholics to create and petition for an African American Catholic rite.
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Hamilton, Kenneth L. Crowe
(2019)
"Regrouping in the Clearing: Resisting Liturgiam Authenticam and Reconsidering an African American Rite,"
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium: Vol. 12, Article 10.
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https://ecommons.udayton.edu/jbcts/vol12/iss1/10
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