The New Sin: Kneeling (A quick survey of links)

The big story today is a (front page) Los Angelas Times article about the members of a parish being told that kneeling at certain times in the Mass is " ... rebellion, grave disobedience and mortal sin...", and apparently even the bishop is in on it (!):

"At a small Catholic church in Huntington Beach, the pressing moral question comes to this: Does kneeling at the wrong time during worship make you a sinner?

Kneeling "is clearly rebellion, grave disobedience and mortal sin," Father Martin Tran, pastor at St. Mary's by the Sea, told his flock in a recent church bulletin. The Diocese of Orange backs Tran's anti-kneeling edict.

Though told by the pastor and the archdiocese to stand during certain parts of the liturgy, a third of the congregation still gets on its knees every Sunday." [More...]

Numerous Catholic blogs have been covering this story for some time, so do read up:

• Bettnet: Kneeling as a mortal sin
• Off the Record: warning: not for children or the squeamish
• Open Book: On the Kneeling Beat
• Cafeteria is Closed: Los Angeles Times story on ban on kneeling in Orange County
• Get Religion: Is kneeling really a mortal sin?
• Roman Catholic Blog: A Ban on Kneeling? Some Catholics Won't Stand for It