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Pope Francis' first moves hint at break with past
BBC News ^ | 16 March 2013 | David Willey

Posted on 03/16/2013 2:08:29 PM PDT by cothrige

The first 48 hours of the pontificate of Pope Francis have given the world a foretaste of what it is going to be like to have a Jesuit priest for the first time in history as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholic believers.

Minutes after the election result was declared in the Sistine Chapel, a Vatican official called the Master of Ceremonies offered to the new Pope the traditional papal red cape trimmed with ermine that his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI gladly wore on ceremonial occasions.

"No thank you, Monsignore," Pope Francis is reported to have replied. "You put it on instead. Carnival time is over!"

It was just one small sign out of many this week that as Massimo Franco, one of Italy's shrewdest political editorial writers, commented in the Corriere Della Sera, "the era of the Pope-King and of the Vatican court is over".

You only had to look at the shocked faces of many of the courtiers when they suddenly realised the significance of what had happened and understood that it really was over.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: argentina; conclave; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I am amassing huge grains of salt for what I see in the press, and especially in the British press.

Ditto.

21 posted on 03/16/2013 2:40:49 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: muawiyah
not all Americans know the term FASCHING ~ but they do know what A CARNIVAL is ~ but I take it he was referring to the period of time when such festivals and parades take place ~ and, that’s over.

I take it you are saying that he had in mind the Carnival celebration preceding Lent? I think that would be likely true, if he actually said this at all. However, I can't see how that would mitigate anything? The mozetta which our new pope refused to wear is not a Carnival costume after all. Therefore, such a statement would seem to most people I think to be quite dismissive of the previous pope and the MC Msgr. Marini. Is it really possible he would have said such a thing? I just don't know.

22 posted on 03/16/2013 2:44:15 PM PDT by cothrige
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To: livius

I’m inclined to agree. The rad trads are very upset (and their schismatic tendencies came out on the first day when they slimed the new pope on the basis of the tiniest shreds of evidence. They are all convinced he’s liturgically tin-eared, as most Jesuits are.

He may indeed be that. But even if he is, it’s not the end of the world (and I write that as one devoted to the Extraordinary Form but not to the exclusion of the NO) and so the incredible overreaction was way out of line.

I’m guessing this quotation is a distortion of something that did happen (he may indeed have rejected the ermine-trimmed cape, which does have a technical name, but the BBC could be caught dead mentioning it, but even if he chose not to wear it I very much doubt he said the words put in his mouth here), a distortion DELIBERATELY spread abroad in the press by his enemies who seek to split off from him all those who love the old liturgy and traditions.

Divide and conquer.


23 posted on 03/16/2013 2:52:23 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Paladin2
I read that too, and rejoiced, but it wasn't clear to me just what was being claimed here. Did he simply receive their resignations at age 75 (which he has to option to do or not to do)?

Or did he take out guys younger than 75 by making them an offer they couldn't refuse? ("Resign now or I'll depose you" -- or something like that)?

I'd be grateful for clarification on that.

24 posted on 03/16/2013 2:54:32 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Legatus
In charity we must assume that the episcopal residence was utilized for other purposes during his tenure.

Lord grant me charity though.

I know what you mean and second your prayer for myself. I am trying not to be uncharitable either to our Holy Father or to any others serving Holy Mother Church in their small ways. But, I do find myself wondering about these things and what they mean. Perhaps his house was utilised very efficiently and served the Church in some way while he didn't live there. Maybe he even used it as a shelter for people or some such (though surely that would be printed in every source if true) or just an office. I don't know, and won't pretend to. But, I do worry about people who are so persistently and publicly humble. There are people in this world who take a bit too much pride in being humble, and so I am not going to swallow down the media theme of our humble pope any quicker than I did their insistence that our last one was a Nazi. I will wait and see what some of the real fruits of his pontificate are and then decide what I think is true.

25 posted on 03/16/2013 2:55:35 PM PDT by cothrige
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To: cothrige

I think The Church may well have a Pope that is for go, not for show.


26 posted on 03/16/2013 2:55:45 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: cothrige
he's well known for his attitudes on personal possessions ~ so nobody would take his statement as anything but a personal preference.

Maybe he's a crypto-protestant ~ after all they never came out in the open in Italy, and only briefly in Spain. In Argentina he's been known to associate with them.

27 posted on 03/16/2013 3:04:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: null and void
"I think The Church may well have a Pope that is for go, not for show."

Thanks. Sure hope so.

28 posted on 03/16/2013 3:05:13 PM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Legatus; cothrige

I remembering hearing that his residency was used for a school , I think, for poor children, and some may have also resided there with the nuns.


29 posted on 03/16/2013 3:14:20 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: cothrige
Could the new pope have been this hostile and rude,

A Jesuit is a different breed of priest, open and honest.

A needed fresh beeze has arrived in Rome.

30 posted on 03/16/2013 3:15:17 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: berdie

later


31 posted on 03/16/2013 3:18:48 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Houghton M.

Divide and conquer is their program. That said, I was as stunned as you are by the rad trads and their vituperative, foul-mouthed reaction. There isn’t an EF mass at my Cathedral parish, and the two that do exist in the diocese are so horrible they look like parodies (the worst liturgical hits of 1955, howled into a mic by one or two of the worst voices of the 21st century, combined with priests who barely know their way around). However, I have always supported it and I thought it would be nice to bring it back...until now. Then I suddenly realized that a lot of people involved with it have no interest in the faith. They’re all out there broadening their phylacteries, and could just as easily be high-church Anglicans, as far as the Faith is concerned.

So I’ve sort of bailed on the project. I think the best thing of all would be to go back to the 1965 missal (mostly in the vernacular, but simply a translation of the 1962 missal with a few minor changes) and start over. It wouldn’t upset the rational EF people, and I think it would be perfectly acceptable to most of the non-doctrinaire Novus Ordo folks.

Actually, that’s what everybody thought the “new mass” that was announced was going to be: nobody expected the Novus Ordo, and it was a real shock to everybody, including the clergy, and was imposed with great ferocity by the boy bishops (such as Mahony) appointed under Paul VI.

So maybe we should start over again. But that said, the important thing is the faith, and while Francis may not be a great liturgist, I don’t think he would approve of anything that distorted the Faith, and that’s what matters.


32 posted on 03/16/2013 3:18:52 PM PDT by livius
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To: cothrige

I am looking at that picture of His sweet open smile - and it is morphing from: Let Us Pray - to - Let Us Prey !

Go get em’ , Holy Father !

(I noted in a previous thread that I read someplace that he was known to be an ___-kicker. Very nice when combined with his obvious deep humility.)


33 posted on 03/16/2013 3:25:38 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord (economic civil war ?)
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To: cothrige
Pope Francis' first moves hint at break with past

The title of this article makes people think that our Francis is just panting to break from "the past."

The lame streamers can't wait to find some crack in the armor and exploit it, even if they have to make it all up.

They either don't know what makes this guy tick or are afraid of what makes him tick.

Either way, we need to pray for him daily, like he asked us to do.

34 posted on 03/16/2013 3:33:05 PM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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To: livius

No, don’t bail on the EF. Benedict was right to set it free and it will have a salutary effect on the OF. I deliberately used “rad trads.” I’m a trad myself. Only some traditionalists are rad trads consumed by a fundamentally schismatic mentality. Many others are not. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Martin Luther was a traditionalist reformer. Many of his complaints were fully justified. But he took on a schismatic mentality when confronted in 1518. He would not have had to go that route. Traditional reformers need not be schismatic.


35 posted on 03/16/2013 3:50:53 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: onyx
I remembering hearing that his residency was used for a school , I think, for poor children, and some may have also resided there with the nuns.

Interesting. I do hope it is true as it would offer more substance to the stories.

36 posted on 03/16/2013 3:52:59 PM PDT by cothrige
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To: cothrige
Pope Francis [in his first homily] quoted French writer, Leon Bloy, “Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.” Some of Bloy's other quotes:
"This place stinks of God!"
"Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig."
And my personal favorite:
"The only mistake in life is not to become a saint."
I would need some confirmation, though, before I'd believe this post from the BBC, but for Pope Francis to quote [the direct] Leon Bloy from the get-go, was interesting. Here's more on Bloy:
Bloy was a remarkable French writer...who was responsible for the conversion in 1905 of the Maritains, Jacques and Raïssa. Bloy was, and is still, a much-neglected literary genius - neglected in part because of the vehemence of his writing, which seems to well up from a source as deep as some Old Testament prophet...
The following passage is from Jacques’ introduction to Léon Bloy: Pilgrim of the Absolute...
All his life he hated injustice, loved the poor and the forsaken, hoped - with what impatience! - for the revelation of God’s Glory... He ardently desired martyrdom, he thought himself destined to it, he expected it in the form of a bloody and extraordinary immolation that was refused him... --Jacques Maritain

37 posted on 03/16/2013 4:05:45 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: cothrige

I believe it was used to house an order that had nowhere else to go.


38 posted on 03/16/2013 4:17:38 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: onyx
I remembering hearing that his residency was used for a school , I think, for poor children, and some may have also resided there with the nuns.

That's why I automatically try to find a charitable explanation for the actions and words of others... and an uncharitable explanation for my own. I'm a cranky so and so sometimes.

39 posted on 03/16/2013 4:23:30 PM PDT by Legatus (Keep calm and carry on)
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To: cothrige

It takes a lot of money to run one of those huge residences.


40 posted on 03/16/2013 4:35:43 PM PDT by firebrand
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