NB: A July 19 article in the English service of ZENIT about Castel Gandolfo is their much-delayed translation of the story based on an interview with the Pontifical Villas director by Vatican Radio last July 8 which appeared in L'Osservatore Romano on July 9, and which I translated and posted that day on page 117 of this thread.
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The 'news' I do not post:
Also: There are some
minor or peripheral stories that I do not necessarily post right away - if ever - preferring to wait until they turn out to to mean anything at all or I can safely continue to ignore them. My
personal criterion is this: Does the story add anything appreciable to the cultural, historical and social context of Benedict XVI's Papacy?
[Others are free, of course, to post what they want when they want to.]
So I have not reported on the temporary glitch in which a search engine directed searches for the Vatican to a pedophilia site - which it turns out was empty. Or that Christopher Hitchens has revealed he has esophageal cancer. Or the miscellaneous sniping from the far-out liberal nuns (nuts) in the United States (I prefer to wait for the visitation report).
And obviously, not the totally predictable liberal outrage against the proscription of women ordination now codified into canon law - with the priestette advocates all feigning this was anything new at all!
I intend to remain journalistically impervious to routine same-old-same-old dissent on the same-old-same-old liberal causes. One can acknowledge they take place but not waste time on their dreadful counter-Magisterium polemic.
Then, there was Mons. Fellay speculating the Pope must say the traditional Mass in private once in a while. Something that apparently Fr. Lombardi thought fit to deny. Why on earth he had to make a denial, I do not understand. He could simply have said, "I do not know".
(Personally, I like to think the Pope could have said it in his private chapel at least once - maybe even every Sunday - if only for the benefit of his Memores Domini housekeepers who probably never experienced the traditional Mass before. GG, who taught for years at an Opus Dei university, would not be an unlikely acolyte.]
The third anniversary of the implementation of
Summorum Pontificum will come September 14, two days before the Holy Father leaves for Britain. Will he finally say it in public then? I had been hoping he might do it in Carpineto on Sept. 5, because the setting is smaller than any of his other pastoral trips, and it was Leo XIII's Mass, after all. But so was it Celestine V's Mass, and he did not do it in Sulmona.
But nothing could be more emblematic that the traditional Mass has regained full rights within the Church than for the Holy Father to say it in St. Peter's for a worldwide audience. I hope he decides the time has come to do so.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 21/07/2010 00:37]