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Category Archives: POPES
Pope Benedict XVI’s Midnight Mass Homily
Pope Benedict XVI’s Midnight Mass Homily: Dear Brothers and Sisters! The reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to Titus that we have just heard begins solemnly with the word “apparuit“, which then comes back again in the reading at the Dawn … Read More
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Tagged Benedict XVI, Francis of Assisi, homily, Midnight Mass, Thomas of Celano
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New head of the USA Anglican Ordinariate to be named soon
Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity. It is exciting that on 1 January, very soon, the new Ordinariate for Anglicans will be established in the USA. The Ordinariate will need a leader. This is from the site Virtue … Read More
A paragraph about the role of the Bishop of Rome and about collegiality
A great and succinct paragraph about the authority of the Successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff, and the the successors of the Apostles, especially diocesan bishops in union with the Holy Father. […] Our Lord is the Head of the … Read More
Problems with the Anglican Ordinariate in England?
Preamble: Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity. Pope Benedict gets to determine the parameters and dynamics of ecumenism, not his critics. According to his approach and vision, he has been making headway. Some will say that he is … Read More
Changes to the C of E
From The Weekly Standard: The End of Canterbury Will the sun set on the Anglican communion? BY JOSEPH BOTTUM The archbishop of Canterbury is going to resign next year. At least that’s the story making the rounds of newspapers in … Read More
CH: “You cannot be an Anglican and use the Roman Missal.”
On the site of the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, there is an interesting piece about Catholic and Anglican and Anglo-Catholic and Anglicanorum coetibus Catholic identity. The Bishop of London is right about Anglicans using the … Read More
Benedict XVI on Bishops
As I write, Pope Benedict XVI is in Africa. For this trip his Post-Synodal Exhortation (following the Synod on Africa) has been released with the title Africae munus. It is a long, “omnibus” document. We can look at a few … Read More
Episcopal Church nuns received into the Catholic Church
UPDATE: I posted a request to readers HERE about writing to the sisters to welcome them into formal communion. ___ I enjoyed this story in the Baltimore Sun: Archdiocese of Baltimore welcomes new order of nuns All Saints’ Sisters of … Read More
“Pro fidei RE-propagatione”
I received yesterday an email stating that priests of the SSPX were today going to say votive Masses “Pro fidei propagatione“. Good idea! I am all for what the Holy Father is promoting, including a new effort in spreading the … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard: “Tacens stat ursus. Turrim spectat clericus. Quis sapit magis?”
