tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post1541588545802251900..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: The Westminster Stakes - a good time to place a bet?Ttonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-87781515931629903542007-02-06T21:31:00.000+00:002007-02-06T21:31:00.000+00:00Fr Ray: not only no episcopal experience, but not ...Fr Ray: not only no episcopal experience, but not even a Priory. At least Cardinal Hume had been an Abbot.<br /><br />But we have three Benedictines to think about: Archbishop McDonald, whom the Pope knew in Rome and whose appointment is alleged to have been made by the Pope in spite of the <i>terna</i> offered to him; Bishop Kenney, who did goodness knows what in Scandinavia, but obviously did it well; and Fr Nichols OP, with whom the Pope in evidently very close.<br /><br />I did describe the tenner as speculative!Ttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-67412636595957789912007-02-06T16:08:00.000+00:002007-02-06T16:08:00.000+00:00Whereas in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton any...Whereas in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton any nurturing has to be done by the diocesan, Westminster has four competent auxiliaries, so it does not matter so much if the A/b is not so hot in that directionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-67485670768456406862007-02-06T14:55:00.000+00:002007-02-06T14:55:00.000+00:00But no Episcopal experience, Tony, though he would...But no Episcopal experience, Tony, though he would be good for anyone outside of Westminster but the clergy there need nurturing.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-30926574345854788212007-02-04T19:31:00.000+00:002007-02-04T19:31:00.000+00:00You are undoubtedly right with respect to Frs Radc...You are undoubtedly right with respect to Frs Radcliffe and Jamison and Archbishop Fitzgerald. Bear in mind that Bishop Kenney wasn't really "returned": he was sent.<br /><br />Big hint about why Ttony might be placing a speculative tenner: who wrote "A POPE AND A COUNCIL ON THE SACRED LITURGY: Pope Pius XII's 'Mediator Dei' and the Second Vatican Council's 'Sacrosanctum Concilium' with a comparative study" and had it published by Franborough Abbey, home of Dom Alcuin Read, whose "Organic Development of the Liturgy" had a preface by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger? Fr Aidan Nichols.Ttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-19601590331139782272007-02-04T09:39:00.000+00:002007-02-04T09:39:00.000+00:00I am surprised Radcliffe and Fitzgerald are in the...I am surprised Radcliffe and Fitzgerald are in there, hardly Benedictine material, then neither is the Benedictine. The Birmingham auxillary is the unknown quantity, no-one quite knows why he was returned to England from Sweden.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.com