Tag: Pope Benedict XVI
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Pray Tell visits with Timothy Radcliffe, OP
“Pope Benedict’s emphasis on beauty in liturgy was wonderful and to be welcomed. It is true that the return of some forms of vestment, the red shoes, and some curious hats did put people off! They certainly did not turn me on!”
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Sacra Liturgia 2013
“[T]he Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, Dominique Rey, wants to reassure those Catholics who think that the moment for “liturgical renewal” – a shorthand definition for a return to a more solemn style of celebration hopefully ushered in by Benedict’s legalization of the pre-Second Vatican Council Latin Mass – is now over.”
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Vernacular liturgy and Pope Francis’ “hermeneutic of continuity”
The Mass at John Lateran in Rome this Sunday is part of Francis’ “hermeneutic of continuity” – with Vatican II, with Pope Paul’s reform of the rites, and with the rest of the Catholic Church.
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Reporting on Benedict and Francis from Bavaria
In the Süddeutsche Zeitung from Munich – most likely a newspaper Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reads daily – Matthias Drobinski is noting the contrast between Pope Francis and his predecessor.
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U.S. Catholics Express Favorable View of Pope Francis
The contrast to Pope Benedict at the beginning of his term is striking.
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Msgr. Jim Moroney: Pope Emeritus Benedict was Liturgical Leader with Exceptional Support for the New English Missal
Msgr. James Moroney had the privilege of working with Pope Benedict on the completion of the new English translation of the Roman Missal.
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Two Popes, Two Palm Sundays
The Deacon’s Bench notes “an interesting study in contrasts”: