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Worshiping with Agatha Christie.(Faith matters)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 20070821
Author:Zaleski, Carol

WHAT WOULD Agatha Christie Do? In 1971 she put her name on a petition urging the conservation of an endangered species: the traditional Latin mass, threatened with extinction in the aftermath of Vatican II. The petition noted that the preconciliar mass, a thing of beauty in its own right, was the inspiration for countless works of poetry, philosophy, music and other arts throughout the centuries. Intervening, as UNESCO might, to safeguard an intangible cultural treasure, the petition asked the Holy See to consider "the appalling responsibility it would incur in the history of the ...

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