21 October 2009
The announcement of this Apostolic Constitution has come as a surprise. So, too, has the generosity of its measures. It is important to understand its context as well as its content.
The Apostolic Constitution is the response of Pope Benedict to the approaches which have been made to the Holy See by groups of Anglicans, in different parts of the world, asking for full visible communion within the Catholic Church. It is, then, a response, not an initiative, by the Holy See. It is a response designed to establish a provision which will be equitable and uniform in whatever part of the world it may be taken up...
Read in full in The Catholic Herald.
Mass of our Lady of Walsingham
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In the old Roman Missal, in the Appendix pro Aliquibus Locis, there is
(December 10) the Mass Pro Translatione Almae Domus Lauretanae i.e. the
Holy House a...
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