@MountainButorac Costs a fortune to look this cheap, someone said.
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Henry Wallingford
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Henry Wallingford
@HWallingford85
Considerably less reluctant Roman Catholic.
Katılım Ocak 2022
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This is the style Cardinals have been wearing since 2023, and still did yesterday, as you’ll see from my photo of Cardinal Burke. My shot from 2022 has slightly nicer ones, but the face accessory throws everything off.
Damian Thompson@holysmoke
Notice that he’s ditched the revolting Bergoglian style of vestments. Forgive my ignorance, but why a (nasty) chasuble last year and a cope yesterday?
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@CatholicHerald No-one is interested in what this poorly-educated friar has to say.
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Bishop Michael Martin responds to tensions over the Traditional Latin Mass and gives his view on whether there might be a change in Church-wide policy.
🔗 ow.ly/1b7C50YAElT
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@holysmoke @FatherNaylor @JamieFranklin40 Even if the numbers of 'traditionalist' Anglicans were growing, it doesn't matter: the horse has bolted.
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@FatherNaylor @JamieFranklin40 Given that the Primate of All England is a woman, the Church of England is hardly a natural home for them.
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Now that Sarah Mullally is Archbishop of Canterbury, St Stephen’s House is moving ever closer to full acceptance of women’s orders. This a major trend in Anglo-Catholicism.
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@LiturgyGuy Patronize your flock! Great optics, bishop!
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“I would still say that the majority of Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte don’t know anything about what we are talking about.”
Despite nearly daily news coverage in both secular and Catholic media, a dubia signed by 40% of his priests, and liturgical directives impacting nearly every parish which fosters priestly vocations in the diocese, Bishop Martin contends that his flock “doesn’t know anything” about the ongoing discord in the diocese.
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EVENT: Join C20 for a bumper Bank Holiday weekend in Bristol. We’ll see the recently refurbished Grade II* listed Clifton Cathedral (1973), the last major cathedral to be built in Britain; ‘Bauhaus, Breuer, Bristol’ exhibition and lots of Brutalism!
🗓️ Thu 30 Apr - Sat 2 May 2026
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…
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@M_P_Hazell @CatholicSmark @holysmoke Viola would be frightening. He is genuinely smart and knows his stuff.
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@CatholicSmark @holysmoke It's his replacement I worry about. If, as happened last time, the current DDW secretary is promoted to prefect, we're all in trouble. (but hopefully Leo realises that and we return to the pre-2021 pattern of appointment - and dare we also hope for a new secretary?)
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I do not know if @holysmoke's word on Roche checks out and he's Malta bound. But I do think its likely he is the next of the Francis court to find himself in a new endeavor.
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@nicospuntoni @holysmoke Ghirlanda is really, really horrible. Even Roche would be better than him.
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@holysmoke My sources report that there is pressure within the SMOM to call for the removal of Gianfranco Ghirlanda as patron cardinal. On 13 February, Pope Leo XIV received Grand Master Fra’ John Dunlap in private audience.
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Arthur Roche leaving Divine Worship to become patron of the Order of Malta, according to a Vatican source. If true, great opportunity for Pope Leo to appoint a non-sociopath to supervise liturgy.
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@hf_222222 Roche to Rome was Cormac's final gift to the Church. A big BXVI error.
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As with all appointment rumours, believe it when we actually see it, & the identity of who replaces the retirement age Roche is probably more important.
It will likely also be informative if this happens before or after the next Consistory which is scheduled to deal with the TLM
Damian Thompson@holysmoke
Arthur Roche leaving Divine Worship to become patron of the Order of Malta, according to a Vatican source. If true, great opportunity for Pope Leo to appoint a non-sociopath to supervise liturgy.
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@WalkingHymnal The universe of 'make money by baiting trads online'...
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What universe is Mike living in?! Seriously....
Scott Smith@hf_222222
Could someone explain the psychology of copelords who make up falsehoods to support the Germans over Pope Leo? The Germans have an official gay blessing document which dissents from Fiducia supplicans - Pope Leo explicitly called out their error & they told him to pound sand!
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@EmeseZsBalog Britain had a great culture. It was beautiful - it didn't take itself too seriously, and people's aspirations were rather moderate, actually. Now, it's unrecognizable. The country is culturally destroyed.
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It’s been a month since I’ve moved back to Hungary 🇭🇺 after 15 years in the UK 🇬🇧
I was a teenager when I left. Here are three things I’ve learnt and have been reflecting on — a thread 🧵
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@M_P_Hazell I imagine Cardinal Roche truly believes it's only 'trads' who don't like him.
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Here's the thing: we trads would very much like to play our full part in the life of the Church, as Vatican II asks (e.g. AA 10) and as Summorum Pontificum encouraged, rather than have our entire existence treated as some sort of begrudging "concession" by paranoid prelates.
Austen Ivereigh@austeni
Cardinal Roche calls out the agenda behind the trad campaign. “What else is going on when they have been given the concession of this Mass? What is the problem? Something else is clearly afoot,” he says. @OSVNews osvnews.com/cardinal-roche…
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The ghost of the blue and white Norman paint scheme on the vaulting high up at the east of Durham Cathedral.
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@BruvverEccles @mfjlewis I think the word is 'triggered'...
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Ah, the excellent Lord Moylan has finally encountered Mike "potato head" Lewis, @mfjlewis, slavering worshipper of Pope Francis and hater of his critics.
Lord Moylan@danielmgmoylan
I don’t know who Mr Lewis is but he appears to live in a dark, conspiratorial world and may need help. Does he have a family member?
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@pluant It's about Mass being done in an effeminate way.
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It’s because it’s not really about the TLM.
It’s about demanding the New Mass be done a certain way, namely with absolutely minimal reminders of what once was…
Sensus Fidelium@Sensus_Fidelium
This is so bad and daft. He mentions the parishes that had the TLM but thing is many parishes that DIDN'T offer a TLM used the rails. I can name quite a few (including the cathedral) that didn't have the TLM but used the rails. AND if you didn't want to kneel you could stand at the rail. It was rare to see and mostly very elderly folks.
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@pluant And yet GIRM 295 contradicts him: Ab aula ecclesiae opportune distinguatur aut per aliquam elevationem, aut per peculiarem structuram et ornatum.
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This is the hour to appear reasonable and generous, kind and diplomatic.
Let the rigid, ideological, intransigent enemies of the Old Rite look like the unreasonable fanatics they’ve always been.
Brian Williams@LiturgyGuy
Bishop Martin of Charlotte explaining that the communion rail has no place “in the liturgical life of the Novus Ordo” since the norm (in the US) is to receive Communion standing. Possibly His Excellency can cite the liturgical text or section of the GIRM stating such a ban? His Excellency also seems to be troubled by the actualization (in certain Charlotte parishes) of the mutual enrichment Pope Benedict often spoke of.
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@holysmoke These are the kind of men that are selected to be bishops when they are in seminary. You know it; I know it. Risk-averse, bland, and grey.
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Great to hear – I think I know which parish it is. But why don’t the English bishops give the Ordinariate church buildings of their own? They’re so pathologically risk-averse and unimaginative.
James Martin@BoroughBloke
@holysmoke My parish was dying on its feet. Closure was a possibility at one point. The Ordinariate took over and transformed the place. It’s since been beautifully renovated and attracts a good congregation.
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@holysmoke Agree wholeheartedly. Look at the church in Malton that was generously offered to the RC diocese. Reordered through 90 degrees so the 'sanctuary' is now in the side aisle. Deliberately offensive.
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Interesting comment from a Catholic priest after Mullally’s enthronement:
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@MLJHaynes @OSVNews The Cardinal himself celebrates a horrible Mass. He makes it all about himself, so he is no-one to give lectures about poor formation to anyone.
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Cardinal Roche on Catholics who have been given the “concession” of the traditional Mass:
“What else is going on when they have been given the concession of this Mass? What is the problem? Something else is clearly afoot”
Via @OSVNews
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@holysmoke @pluant Well, with, for example, the potential triple merger of Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hallam, there ought to be plenty of buildings to go around!
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A big vote of confidence in the Ordinariate from Rome. Now let’s see the English bishops give it the support it deserves – for example by handing over some church buildings.
Silere non possum@silerenonpossum
A patrimony taking shape: how Benedict XVI’s Ordinariates are lived today Read now: silerenonpossum.com/en/un-patrimon…
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@MarianSekerak @Pontifex Well, thankfully, it's clearly an issue for the Pope and the French bishops.
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For the vast majority of Catholics, this is a non-issue. The Church has bigger concerns than dealing with fringe dissenting groups rejecting St Paul VI's liturgical reform (some even Vatican II). And if it's just about language, Latin can still be used, as @Pontifex noted.
Matthew Hazell@M_P_Hazell
RETVRN
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