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That’s an elegant way to translate ‘First Lady,’ ‘La Consorte.’
Ok, I’ll bite. What makes Ranjith’s visit so odd?
Mary,
I think “la Consorte” is just “Wife”, not “First Lady”. I have been referred to in that way, and I can assure you I am not married to a head of state. :^)
Malcom Ranjith. Well, the President is in good company.
The President aside, is Ranjith’s audience normal routine or may we begin to wonder what it’s about (though we’ll likely never know).
No, the point is that the President of the United States is at the bottom of the list.
Maybe Archbishop Ranjith paid the Holy Father a goodbye visit before his departure from Rome to Sri Lanka, where he is scheduled to take possession of his See on August 1st.
[Wishful thinking] Or perhaps the Pope called him in to ask if he accepts a red hat to be delivered at the next consistory. [/Wishful thinking].
P. McGraf,
That’s normal. The list is always presented in the cronological order of audiences, from the first to the last. The President was the last person to be received.
So, the Holy See Press Office listed (in the usual order it uses) first the people that the pope had received in the morning, then the people that the Holy Father would still receive that morning, and then the people that the Holy Father would receive in the afternoon.
P. McGrath: He was the last audience of the day.
Would the Church be better off if the Pope simply dissolved the “audiences,” incredibly long Encyclicals that virtually nobody reads, and such and simply spent his days pastoring in Rome, roaming the streets preaching the Gospel, feeding the hungry and tending to the poor and ill?
Would such a reform of the Papacy would reinvigorate the Church and Catholic identity?
(I realize that his exclusive return to the TLM would be the best way for the Pope to reinvigorate Catholic identity. But the Pope has made it clear that he doesn’t have any desire to do that.)
Steve, no. On all counts, to every question and to the stuff you put in brackets.
What a charmingly antique picture of contemporary Rome! I can see the hungry
in their picturesque rags, in ancient doorways, as feral dogs lick their
sores. Then there’s the horse-drawn dead cart passing by on the street, with a warning
bell. And look, over there! A saintly knight cutting his cloak in twain! And
in this corner, a humble infirmary where nuns are grinding up poltices. Let’s
get the octogenarian pope down here to preach, book in hand, amid the refuse,
and give sustenence to the groaning peasants of Rome. Of course, thousands can
see him better from St. Peter’s Square, but never mind that. And never mind that the teeming
hungry of 21st century Rome tend to be alley cats! O my! Does no-one think
of our feline brothers? Get him out there with a basket of dolphin-friendly fish.