tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3422022831210448649..comments2024-03-28T22:56:16.016+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Tesco zucchettoFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-44749610601756169092011-02-03T21:23:14.082+00:002011-02-03T21:23:14.082+00:00Fr H - What is the equivalent of suffragan? Is it ...Fr H - What is the equivalent of suffragan? Is it the same thing as an auxillary bishop?justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15441632434304154517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3370469998060553762011-02-03T20:37:29.430+00:002011-02-03T20:37:29.430+00:00"...Churches should choose their own bishops...."...Churches should choose their own bishops." Can't argue with that and not a 'new' or unorthodox concept at all! ;o)Canon Jerome Lloyd OSJVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10764146635659770019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-75037102235820227182011-02-03T14:18:33.176+00:002011-02-03T14:18:33.176+00:00Indeed. I have long thought that 'the telegrap...Indeed. I have long thought that 'the telegraphic magic wire' of Wiseman that could enrapture Ward with the notion of an encyclical on his breakfast table every morning was something that destablized the Church. Modern communications made for centralization, which also meant an abdication of responsibility by local bishops for orthodoxy.Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84417022555589671922011-02-03T13:56:04.988+00:002011-02-03T13:56:04.988+00:00Good points, Father!
I’m not sure what a diocesan...Good points, Father!<br /><br />I’m not sure what a diocesan bishop does on a day to day basis. I suspect a lot of it is ‘paperwork’. While in theory he is the ‘father of the diocese’, in fact he is the manager or diocesan CEO (“Catholic Executive Officer”). Like a secular manager whose status in the company is often determined by the number of people reporting to him, he will have direct reportsGORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62903395989151196022011-02-03T13:48:29.901+00:002011-02-03T13:48:29.901+00:00Perhaps another route to reform of the current epi...Perhaps another route to reform of the current episcopal system is to do an end run around it, and encourage the establishment of monastic establishments which also serve as centers of pastoral care for the faithful of the region. The abbot of such an abbey would then indeed be "the Man of, the Father of...his Church", as this concept is better preserved in the abbeys than in the Steve Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021781365974293126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-47274785217779247262011-02-03T12:30:42.197+00:002011-02-03T12:30:42.197+00:00On the morning of Benedict XVI's election, my ...On the morning of Benedict XVI's election, my son sent out a text message "Habemus Papum". One of his friends, not a Catholic, called him and asked what the message meant.<br /><br />When my son told him that we had a new pope, the friend asked, "And his name is Habemus?"<br /><br />We had a good chuckle over this.nodjamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15685453024156579633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21231964755967103962011-02-03T11:33:14.028+00:002011-02-03T11:33:14.028+00:00I will never forget the morning of the election, w...I will never forget the morning of the election, when my German aunt woke me with the news "Wir haben ein Deutscher Papst" - we have a German pope - I thought, surely not!<br /><br />But it was him, even against what I had thought were insupperable odds.<br /><br />My friends and I had speculated about what name the new pontiff would take - I had said we need a Benedict (of Nursia fame)The Sibylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02540910187441941952noreply@blogger.com