Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara. A Pontificate Dedicated to the Cause of Unity Australia Archbishop John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, has issued a …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara.
A Pontificate Dedicated to the Cause of Unity
Australia
Archbishop John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, has issued a statement welcoming Pope Benedict’s decision to permit Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as communities. “We are profoundly moved by the generosity of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI,” said Archbishop Hepworth. “This is an act of great goodness on the part of the Holy Father. He has dedicated his pontificate to the cause of unity.”
Ecumenism as a Return to the Terrain of Tradition
Vatican
The Italian journalist Sandro Magister has noticed that the Anglicans that presently are ready to enter the Catholic Church are part of the "traditionalist" wing of the Anglican Communion. Also traditionalist are the Lefebvrist communities that Benedict XVI is making increasing efforts to bring into obedience to Rome. Likewise attached to the grand tradition are the Orthodox Churches which have more productive encounters with the current pontiff. Magister concludes: Today more than ever, with Joseph Ratzinger as pope, the ecumenical journey seems not a pursuit of modernity, but a return to the terrain of tradition.
“The professional ecumenists on both sides screwed it up”
UK
The British journalist Damian Thompson has reported in his blog that apparently both Lambeth Palace and elements in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity were “implacably opposed” to Pope Benedict XVI’s new arrangements for the Traditional Anglicans. Apparently Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury persuaded Cardinal Kasper head of the Pontifical Council for Unity that it wasn’t a good idea to issue the Apostolic Constitution. But this portfolio was taken out of Kasper’s hands a long time ago. According to Thompson it looks as if the cardinal was simply “informed” what was happening by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Thompson comments: “The professional ecumenists on both sides had decades to get this right. They screwed it up. So now Pope Benedict has opened up another route to unity.”
There is One Name That Matters
Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI dedicated yesterday’s audience to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who he called “the last of the Fathers” of the Church. According to the Holy Father for Bernard "faith is first of all an intimate personal encounter with Jesus, the experience of his closeness, of his friendship and his love.” The Pope added: “Let us hope that this can happen in all of us." Bernard of Clairvaux loved to repeat, "there is one name that matters, that of Jesus of Nazareth.”
A Pontificate Dedicated to the Cause of Unity
Australia
Archbishop John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, has issued a statement welcoming Pope Benedict’s decision to permit Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as communities. “We are profoundly moved by the generosity of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI,” said Archbishop Hepworth. “This is an act of great goodness on the part of the Holy Father. He has dedicated his pontificate to the cause of unity.”
Ecumenism as a Return to the Terrain of Tradition
Vatican
The Italian journalist Sandro Magister has noticed that the Anglicans that presently are ready to enter the Catholic Church are part of the "traditionalist" wing of the Anglican Communion. Also traditionalist are the Lefebvrist communities that Benedict XVI is making increasing efforts to bring into obedience to Rome. Likewise attached to the grand tradition are the Orthodox Churches which have more productive encounters with the current pontiff. Magister concludes: Today more than ever, with Joseph Ratzinger as pope, the ecumenical journey seems not a pursuit of modernity, but a return to the terrain of tradition.
“The professional ecumenists on both sides screwed it up”
UK
The British journalist Damian Thompson has reported in his blog that apparently both Lambeth Palace and elements in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity were “implacably opposed” to Pope Benedict XVI’s new arrangements for the Traditional Anglicans. Apparently Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury persuaded Cardinal Kasper head of the Pontifical Council for Unity that it wasn’t a good idea to issue the Apostolic Constitution. But this portfolio was taken out of Kasper’s hands a long time ago. According to Thompson it looks as if the cardinal was simply “informed” what was happening by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Thompson comments: “The professional ecumenists on both sides had decades to get this right. They screwed it up. So now Pope Benedict has opened up another route to unity.”
There is One Name That Matters
Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI dedicated yesterday’s audience to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who he called “the last of the Fathers” of the Church. According to the Holy Father for Bernard "faith is first of all an intimate personal encounter with Jesus, the experience of his closeness, of his friendship and his love.” The Pope added: “Let us hope that this can happen in all of us." Bernard of Clairvaux loved to repeat, "there is one name that matters, that of Jesus of Nazareth.”