Professor Hans-Jürgen Feulner receives papal knighthood

Professor Hans-Jürgen Feulner, long-time friend of the Ordinariates, member of the Anglicanae Traditiones commission, and professor of liturgics at the University of Austria, has been awarded a papal knighthood.

The knighthood was officially bestowed in the Nuntiature in Vienna by parchment certificate of appointment at which time Prof. Feulner received the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great. It was an impressive ceremony, with nice words from the Nuncio, and Mgr. Lopes, from the Congregation of Doctrine and Faith, reading a letter from Cardinal-Prefect Mueller; Msgr. Lopes pinned the Order on Prof. Feulner's jacket.

The little group of guests comprised representatives from the university, city of Vienna, the German embassy and others.

This is the second layman, to my knowledge, to receive a papal knighthood for work involved with the Ordinariates (Dr. Clinton A. Brand of St. Thomas University in Houston, Texas being the other...see a story on that here).

I am pleased to publicize this happy, and well-deserved, award.

Professor Feulner to speak on Anglican Use Liturgy

On Sunday, April 14th, there will be a short talk by Professor Hans Jürgen-Feulner from the Catholic Theology Faculty at the University in Vienna (Liturgics) following Mass at Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Church, meeting at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, in Santa Ana, CA. Mass is at 3:00 pm.

Dr. Feulner delivered an important talk at the Anglican Use Conference in Houston in 2009 entitled, “The Anglican Use Within the Western Liturgical Tradition,” which has been included as a chapter in Anglicans and the Roman Catholic Church: Reflections on Recent Developments, published by Ignatius Press in 2011.