In 2008, on the Jubilee of the Appearance at Lourdes, the medieval Arms of the Primatial See of Canterbury ... blue, with representations of the Pallium and the Primatial Cross ... proudly presided over the Concourse at Lourdes. It marked the presence, at the Jubilee Ecumenical Pilgrimage, of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. He was joined by Walter Kasper, who sang the International Mass on September 24, the Solemnity of OLW, at which Rowan preached.
I can't recall what were the Propers of that Mass. I suspect they were not the Loretto-based propers, cunningly adapted to Walsingham by Fr Fynes Clinton, and now rightly accorded pride of place in the DW Missal.
Two queries: (1) does anybody remember? (The Pilgrimage booklet does not give this information.)
(2) Can anybody provide a link to the Paper which ... I think, subsequently ... Cardinal Kasper read to the English Anglican bishops, urging them to show their Catholicism by rejecting proposals to accept women 'bishops'.
I think, BTW, it is mistaken totally to write Kasper off, simply because there was a phase when PF kept saying what a fantastic theolgian K was. It is my understanding that K is not supporting the current heterodox movements within German "Catholicism".
With all due respect for your erudition and the long-distance affection for you I share with many on this blog, I do not understand your "soft spot" for Cardinal Kasper, whose own words and free actions for decades have been employed in the cause of various heterodox causes in the post-conciliar Church. It is hard to peg him as an orthodox defender of the Christian tradition.
ReplyDeleteHere it is, Father.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/dialoghi/sezione-occidentale/comunione-anglicana/relazioni/dichiarazioni-comuni/misc/en3.html