Musings about Tradition in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and an attempt to collect essays and articles which would appear in a Catholic press which exercised critical solidarity with the Hierarchy.
But I get the glimmer of a feeling that the election of Pope Benedict has shown the liberals that their day is up, and that their response is a last fling before they, and their beliefs, are consigned to history.
I had worried that the Pope, while a smooth operator as Cardinal Ratzinger, would find the Church he inherited too big and diverse to be able to shape, given his age and his health. How wrong could I have been! This is the most politically astute pontificate since ... I can't think. It is hard to think of a Pope since the French Revolution who has managed to speak across the Bishops to the priests and to the people in the way our current Pope is doing.
17 Nov
ReplyDeletedeath of Good Queen May & Cardinal Pole - the death day of pre-reformation English Catholiscism - how apt!
I wouldn't have dared make the connection!
ReplyDeleteBut I get the glimmer of a feeling that the election of Pope Benedict has shown the liberals that their day is up, and that their response is a last fling before they, and their beliefs, are consigned to history.
I had worried that the Pope, while a smooth operator as Cardinal Ratzinger, would find the Church he inherited too big and diverse to be able to shape, given his age and his health. How wrong could I have been! This is the most politically astute pontificate since ... I can't think. It is hard to think of a Pope since the French Revolution who has managed to speak across the Bishops to the priests and to the people in the way our current Pope is doing.
Ad multos annos!
He is creating a grass root movement.
ReplyDeleteWatching him operate is like listening to Mozart.