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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Panier de Crabes
Un panier de crabes, meaning a basket of crabs, is frequently an expression French people use when considering the Vatican. Crabs are good to eat, when they are fished out of the sea, boiled alive and eaten cold or as … Continue reading
Back from England
We returned home last Thursday after having buried my beloved mother, and having seen her body lying cold and flat in the coffin in the chapel of rest the day before. I said the Subvenite and the Libera me and … Continue reading
Interesting point of view by Sandro Magister
Sandro Magister has written an article Last-Ditch Appeal: The Pope Should Withdraw His Resignation making the case for a hypothesis of Pope Benedict XVI withdrawing his abdication before the end of this month. Of course he would lose all credibility. … Continue reading
Sunday Evening Worship with the Baptists
Sophie and I are presently with my sister near Bradford and Leeds, and we prepare to go over to my father’s house the other side of the country. My sister and brother-in-law are Baptists (my sister married a Baptist). Yesterday … Continue reading
Another Reflection for this Lent
It is customary during Septuagesima-tide to prepare ourselves for Lent, deciding which spiritual disciplines we are going to be more serious about, which sins and vices we are going to work against, what things which are neutral or good in … Continue reading
My Mother’s Funeral
The arrangements are in place and my mother’s funeral will be held in family intimacy on Wednesday 20th February. I will be away from blogging and perhaps also all internet-based contact from the morning of Friday 15th February until I … Continue reading
Problems Downstream
I could also call this article The Wacko Factor! Another British conservative press article: Pope Benedict XVI resigns: he won’t be a recluse, so could he divide the Church? I see the conspiracy theories coming! Thirty years ago I was … Continue reading
Views on Benedict XVI
The news came out yesterday that the See of Rome will be vacant as from the end of this month and there will be a conclave to elect a new Pope. The bookmakers are taking bets and calculating probabilities, based … Continue reading
Pope Benedict XVI is abdicating
Here is the most official source I can find: Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation at end of month on Vatican Radio. Also see Damian Thompson’s Pope resigns. This is unbelievable news, but evidence of Benedict XVI’s deep humility. I’m … Continue reading
Rome and the SSPX – the dead end
This article has been doing the rounds. The Impossible “Road Map” of Peace with the Lefebvrists. I usually lack interest in this flogged and sterile subject. The Novus Ordo conservatives tell the SSPX to submit as if the current Pontiff … Continue reading
