Here’s a video featuring Bishop Kevin and a fine hat.
14 responses to “Newman. Pope. Feast Day.”
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Well, el Papa, gave us the Ratsfinger again. Twice in one trip.
http://mundabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/saucy-pope-wears-leo-xiiis-stole-in-westminster-abbey/
That has to be a record! Twice in four days.
Kelvin, do the RCs lump everyone in the Encyclical? I ask because your orders are not really English orders are they?
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Thanks David | Dah•veed – I think that all Anglicans are lumped together. I am indeed not in English orders.
Its worth reading Apostolicae Curae all the same. Much of the argument focuses on the actual form of the Anglican ordinal at the time.
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David | Dah•veed,
In fairness to Benedict, it was a very nice stole. One wonders if he has two millenia of papal vestments to chose from – The Vatican must have the Mother of all Dressing Up Cupboards! 🙂
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BirthdayFest
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New CDs
Three new CDs purchased this week. It seems ages since I bought new music. Firstly Kate Rusby’s new CD The Girl who Couldn’t Fly. You know exactly where you are with the Barnsley Nightingale – maudlin songs of love and folly. Excellent for the winter nights. Then a copy of Jennifer Bate’s recording of Messiaen’s…
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Could the cat be deaf?
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