At first I did not give this much thought and then it got loose in the blogosphere and the people who are rather less conservative then myself got hold of the thing and went wild. Well I guess that was before the bothered to get a translation of what was said. Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh said the inclusion of the chant was “very, very troubling” since it was an “invocation of something other than the God we know.” So if we turn to another bishops blog we get a translation of what was actually said:

I am not sure what god Bishop Duncan believes in but I, with my limited understanding of Trinitarian Theology, find nothing wrong with this!

This is another case of people not listening. We hear something that sounds a little bit off and we have to jump on whatever we think it is without having all of the facts. Now I have done this myself and have felt very foolish after the fact.

I am not very surprised however that Bishop Duncan has made no statement regrading this since!

One of the interesting if not disturbing points is that some bishops have come from Africa against the wishes of their, I guess the term is, provincial. They have come to join their brothers and sisters but may face retribution when they return. So bad is it that they have changed the way to procession on Sunday will be done. Usually the bishops process by province, but this year they will not so it is harder to identify who is there. How nice! They will know we are Christians by our love.