Pope gets radical and woos the Anglicans # 2 of 2

Pope gets radical and woos the Anglicans # 2 of 2
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007
We conclude with Damian Thompson poignant article in the Telegraph.co.uk 16/11/2007

“He may also have to reform an entire department, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, which spends most of its time promoting the sort of ecumenical waffle that Benedict abhors.

This is a sensitive moment. Last month the bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a network of 400,000 breakaway Anglo-Catholics based mainly in America and the Commonwealth wrote to Rome asking for “full, corporate, sacramental union.”
Their letter was drafted with the help of the Vatican. Benedict is overseeing the negotiations. Unlike John Paul II, he admires the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He is thinking of making special pastoral arrangements for Anglican converts walking away from the car wreck of the Anglican Communion.

This would mean that they could worship together, free from bullying by local bishops who dislike the newcomers’ conservationism and would rather “dialogue” with Anglicans rather than receive them into the Church.

The liberation of the Latin liturgy, the rapprochement with Eastern Orthodoxy, the absorption of former Anglicans – all these ambitions reflect Benedict’s conviction that the Catholic Church must rediscover the liturgical treasure of Christian history to perform its most important task: worshipping God.

This conviction is shared by growing numbers of young Catholics, but not by the Church politicians who have dominated the hierarchies of Europe for too long.
By failing to welcome the latest papal initiatives – even to display any interest in them, beyond the narrow question of how their power is affected – the Bishops of England and Wales have confirmed Benedict’s low opinion of them.
Now he should replace them. If the Catholic reformation is to start anywhere, it might as well start here.”

Addendum: LifeSiteNews.com - Wed. Nov. 21, 2007 By Hilary White titled:
Liberal Bishops and Moral Dissenters Ignore Pope Benedict’s Liturgical Instruction

“In response to decades of request and complaints about unauthorized liturgical and doctrinal innovation, Pope Benedict XVI issued a document July 7, called a ‘motu Proprio,’ erasing the restriction of what he called the “extraordinary rite” of the Mass. The document instructs bishops and priests who want to observe the older rite must be allowed to do so without having to ask permission and that congregations must have the Latin Mass if they ask for it….

“One American priest, Richard McBrien of Notre Dame University, is a leading voice of dissent on sexual issues, abortion and marriage and is widely seen as spokesman for the liberal wing of the bishops and clergy who object to the return of the traditional Mass. He wrote in The Tidings, the diocesan newspaper of the archdiocese of Los Angeles, that young Catholics cannot have experienced the old Latin Mass. He wrote, “It is a mystery how one can be nostalgic for something one has never experienced.” McBrien praised the work of “liturgical scholars” who, he said, “have published articles which carefully pick apart the reasoning behind the papal document.”
Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI
George H. Kubeck, www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com Duplicate into Spanish.