Rorate Caeli  Aparecida Notes: The Pope in Brazil - IV A
Remarkable Speech  Not even the setting (the beautiful and vast
Metropolitan Cathedral of São Paulo), the music (some tasteful
polyphonic pieces and an aesthetically deficient, yet dignified,
use of plainchant for the psalms and hymns of Vespers --
unfortunately, in the vernacular), nor the overall attentive
mood of those who were present at the event could possibly have
prepared the largest episcopate in the world for the remarkable
speech of the Holy Father to the Bishops of Brazil.  The Holy
Father delivered a precise diagnosis of the deep crisis of the
Catholic Church in Brazil - extensive to many other nations: all
important topics were covered by the Pope, from liturgical
disobedience to attentiveness to the sexual maturity of
seminarians, from a condemnation of the use of the Church as a
field for ideological confrontation to the need to be clear in
all ecumenical settings that the only Church of Christ subsists
in the Catholic Church presided by