A recent article from La Nazione alerts us to this latest liturgical abuse: “Priest invokes Mohammad; Vatican investigates.” Apparently, in the Madonna delle Tosse Catholic parish in Florence last week, a parish priest prayed the following in the closing prayer to the Mass:

“Lord, infuse in us the firmness of the Muslim believers in confessing our ideas before the world without caring about derision or of the disrespect of others. Teach us that the real war, as the Prophet said, is that which happens within ourselves, on the inside, without hate nor the shedding of blood.”

To add insult to injury, the prayer was also printed in the parish bulletin.

The Florentine faithful were — justifiably — “scandalizati” [scandalized], says La Nazione.

Whispers in the Loggia reports that this incident has been referred to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, an official of which has, on background, already called it “a very serious case” of liturgical abuse. The dicastery has opened a case.