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Benedict XVI

‘God wants the very best for you’: Benedict XVI in the UK

December 31, 2022

Looking back, 12 years on from that visit, how has Pope Benedict XVI shaped the future of the Catholic Church in England and Wales? Certainly, for every Catholic in their late twenties and early thirties whom I know, Benedict is the reason we are still Catholics. And for those who have converted, or those who had lapsed and have reverted in the last 12 years, he seems to have been a common factor in bringing people back into the loving arms of the Church.

Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Cardinal Nichols

December 31, 2022

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Pope Benedict. He will be remembered as one of the great theologians of the 20th century. “I remember with particular affection the remarkable Papal Visit

Journey from top dog to faithful hound

October 21, 2021

Piers Paul Read reviews Benedict XVI: A Life Volume II:  Professor and Prefect to Pope and  Pope Emeritus 1966-the Present  by Peter Seewald

On the unity of the Church in our times

July 25, 2021

In a homily preached on 18 July 2021 at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, liturgical scholar Dom Alcuin Reid offers both a reflection on the place of the traditional Latin Mass in the unity of the Church, and a description of how his monastery will respond to Francis’s Traditionis Custodes. He asked us to highlight his call

What Benedict XVI thought about liturgical change

July 22, 2021

A week after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, liturgical scholar Dom Alcuin Reid predicts what he will do about the liturgy. A monk of the Monastere Saint-Benoit in Frejus-Toulon, France, his book The Organic Development of the Liturgy carried a preface by then-cardinal Ratzinger. His 2007 article Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

Cardinal Müller critiques Pope Francis’ ‘harsh’ response to extraordinary form, compared to German Synodal Way

July 20, 2021

By Courtney Mares. Rome, Italy, Jul 19, 2021 / 16:00 pm. The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has critiqued Pope Francis’ recent restrictions on extraordinary form Masses as “harsh” compared to his modest response to the “massive attacks on the unity of the Church” posed by the Synodal Way

Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

July 18, 2021

Though it has just been rejected by his successor, Benedict XVI’s motu propio Summorum Pontificum made many people happy when he issued it in 2007. Liturgical scholar Alcuin Reid celebrated the statement as a needed application of the real intentions of the Second Vatican Council. He had reason to say this. A monk of the

Twelve quick thoughts on Pope Francis dropping his long-expected bomb on the traditional latin Mass

July 16, 2021

1) In his motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis says St. John Paul II’s indults were only meant to heal the breach with Archbishop Lefebvre, not to have the traditional latin Mass as a continuing reality in the Church (my paraphrase). He quotes Pope Benedict XVI on “allowing” the TLM, which seems to buttress the point