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n Easter Sunday an image dire situation of Christian minorities appeared on social media that around the world. seemed to sum up Christianity According to the group World Watch Oin the 21st century. It showed a statue International, an estimated 200 million of the Risen Christ, dressed in a flow- Christians face some form of perse- ing white garment, with his right arm cution today. As the Catholic commen- raised in a gesture of victory, the mark tator John Allen says, “The low-end of Crucifixion visible on his left hand. estimate for the number of new Chris- His robe was spattered with blood, great tian martyrs every year is around 8,000, clots of it as well as small specks, while the high end runs to 100,000. freshly shed that very morning. The That works out to either one new statue stands in one of the three martyr every hour, or every five churches in Sri Lanka targeted by minutes – in any event, a human rights suicide bombers on what should have scourge of astonishing proportions.” been the most joyful day of the year. Some Western leaders are begin- The bombers carried out a coordi- ning to grasp this reality. In her Easter nated assault on the churches, and four message, Theresa May acknowledged hotels frequented by Westerners, on that across the world “churches have Easter Sunday morning. As we went been attacked, Christians murdered to press, the death toll had reached [and] families forced to flee their 321 and was still rising, with at least homes”. The Prime Minister promised 500 injured. that Britain would in future “stand up

More than 50 were killed at St Sebas- S for the right of everyone, no matter N tian’s, a church north of the capital, C what their religion, to practise their Colombo, in a predominantly Catholic The statue of Christ at St Sebastian faith in peace”. area known as “little Rome”. Amateur Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka That is easier said than done, because footage showed twisted bodies lying it is almost impossible to guarantee between shattered pews and gaping In a heartening sign, the Muslim the security of the hundreds of thou- holes in the roof. This is the church council of Sri Lanka condemned the sands of churches worldwide. Terror- with the blood-flecked statue of the atrocities against “our Christian broth- ists will always be able to find a soft Risen Christ. At St Anthony’s Shrine in ers and sisters on their holy day of target. This creates what John Allen Colombo, a blast ripped pews to pieces Easter”. Meanwhile, Sheikh Ahmed calls “an ugly and utterly predictable and left the floor and ceiling covered in el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, dynamic”: that on every major feast blood. The church, which contains a the seat of Sunni Muslim learning, day for the foreseeable future Christian precious relic of St Anthony of Padua, deplored the violence, saying: “I cannot communities will face attacks as dread- is a designated national shrine. The imagine a human being could target ful as those in Sri Lanka. third church attacked by bombers was the peaceful on their celebration day.” But we should not despair: Christi- the Evangelical Zion Church in The mass media’s reaction was also anity was born amid persecution and Batticaloa, on Sri Lanka’s east coast. striking. For years, Western media have has grown despite it into the world’s This was the first major attack given scant coverage to atrocities largest faith. Violence harms the body on the Indian Ocean island since a fero- against Christians. But for a full 24 of Christ, but it can never destroy it. cious civil war ended a decade ago. A hours the Sri Lanka bombings domi- Jesus himself not only predicted that government spokesman said that a local nated the news cycle. Cynics might his followers would be persecuted, he Islamist group known as National argue that this was because dozens of also showed the daunting path that he Thowheed Jamath carried out the holidaying Westerners were among the wished them to follow: “But I tell you, attacks with the help of an “interna- victims. Nevertheless, the coverage love your enemies and pray for those tional network”. will have raised awareness of the who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

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What happened? What the media said What world leaders said MORE THAN 300 people IN THE New York Times, Randy Boy- POPE FRANCIS expressed his “grief and were killed in a series agoda said that the attackers must sorrow”, and said that he was praying of bomb attacks in Sri have chosen their targets carefully. “for the numerous victims and Lanka on Easter Sun- St Anthony’s is a national shrine and injured”. He hoped “that everyone day. The eight bomb “has long been a place frequented by will condemn these terrorist acts, blasts targeted churches travellers – domestic and foreign, inhuman acts, that are never justifi- and hotels, including Catholic and non-Catholic – before able.” The UN Secretary General, the shrine of St An- they begin journeys around the António Guterres, and Mike Pompeo, thony of Padua in the island”. Negombo, where another the US Secretary of State, also offered capital city Colombo. church was bombed, is known as their condolences and condemned S N

Christians, almost all C “Little Rome” thanks to its “robust the attack. Catholics, make up less Mourners in Catholic culture”; yet the annual festi- Other responses were less than eight per cent of Colombo val in honour of St Sebastian attracts predictable. On Twitter, Barack Sri Lanka’s 21 million those of all faiths. The question for Sri Obama referred to the victims not as residents. Lanka was whether terrorism would Christians but as “Easter worshippers” The government wreck its tradition of pluralism. – a phrase also used by several US believes the attacks In the Guardian, Giles Fraser said politicians, including Hillary were carried out by the the attacks reminded us that “We are Clinton. There was some debate on Islamist group National living though one of the most serious social media over whether the phrase Thowheed Jamath. phases of Christian persecution in was an attempt to avoid saying Twenty-four people history, and most people refuse to “Christian”, or merely an awkward have been arrested. acknowledge it.” formulation. Overlooked  ‘Final dra ’ of new Vatican constitution What happened? Why was it under-reported? What will happen next? THE Council of Cardi- CATHOLIC media have received the ITS MAIN reported change is the nals has reportedly story cautiously. The original report creation of a ‘‘super-dicastery’’ for approved the final came in an exclusive article by Dario evangelisation, combining the work draft of a new Vatican Menor Torres of the Spanish weekly currently overseen by the Congrega- constitution. Praedicate Vida Nueva. Other publications may tion for the Evangelisation of Peoples Evangelium (Preach the be biding their time until Pope Francis and the Pontifical Council for the Gospel), will replace makes an official announcement. Promotion of the New Evangelisa- Pastor Bonus (The There may also be an attitude of tion. This would reportedly be placed Good Shepherd), “We’ll believe it when we see it”: the above the Congregation of the S N

promulgated by St John C document has been five years in the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The Paul II in 1988. The Relegation? CDF making and there have often been symbolism of relegating the doctrinal apostolic constitution Prefect Cardinal reports that it was on the verge of office would be controversial. outlines the structure Luis Ladaria appearing. Yet if Torres is right, The draft will now be sent to the of the Curia and its Francis could sign the new constitu- other dicasteries and episcopal workings. tion by the end of June. conferences for approval.

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MANY CHURCHES will be holding serv- ON SUNDAY April 28 Spain WEDNESDAY May 1 is the feast of St A ices for Divine Mercy Sunday, which goes to the polls for its I Joseph the Worker (left), an optional D E M

as always takes place a week after first general election since I memorial. It was instituted by Pope K I

Easter Sunday. Preceded by a novena 2016. The Socialist PSOE W Pius XII in 1955, to coincide with Inter- / R

which began on Good Friday, it is a party leads in the polls, U national Workers’ Day, partly to show O T

day to implore God’s mercy. but would need to forma A that there was a Catholic alternative to L E

The Divine Mercy devotion came coalition to govern. PP, D communism. The Pope said he wanted S

about through the visions of St Faustina which is second in the E to “reaffirm … the dignity of work, and G R

Kowalska, a 20th-century Polish polls, proposes restricting O inspire social life and laws based on a E mystic. access to abortion. G fair share of rights and duties”.

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What happened? What the media said What world leaders said MORE THAN 300 people IN THE New York Times, Randy Boy- POPE FRANCIS expressed his “grief and were killed in a series agoda said that the attackers must sorrow”, and said that he was praying of bomb attacks in Sri have chosen their targets carefully. “for the numerous victims and Lanka on Easter Sun- St Anthony’s is a national shrine and injured”. He hoped “that everyone day. The eight bomb “has long been a place frequented by will condemn these terrorist acts, blasts targeted churches travellers – domestic and foreign, inhuman acts, that are never justifi- and hotels, including Catholic and non-Catholic – before able.” The UN Secretary General, the shrine of St An- they begin journeys around the António Guterres, and Mike Pompeo, thony of Padua in the island”. Negombo, where another the US Secretary of State, also offered capital city Colombo. church was bombed, is known as their condolences and condemned S N

Christians, almost all C “Little Rome” thanks to its “robust the attack. Catholics, make up less Mourners in Catholic culture”; yet the annual festi- Other responses were less than eight per cent of Colombo val in honour of St Sebastian attracts predictable. On Twitter, Barack Sri Lanka’s 21 million those of all faiths. The question for Sri Obama referred to the victims not as residents. Lanka was whether terrorism would Christians but as “Easter worshippers” The government wreck its tradition of pluralism. – a phrase also used by several US believes the attacks In the Guardian, Giles Fraser said politicians, including Hillary were carried out by the the attacks reminded us that “We are Clinton. There was some debate on Islamist group National living though one of the most serious social media over whether the phrase Thowheed Jamath. phases of Christian persecution in was an attempt to avoid saying Twenty-four people history, and most people refuse to “Christian”, or merely an awkward have been arrested. acknowledge it.” formulation. Overlooked  ‘Final dra ’ of new Vatican constitution What happened? Why was it under-reported? What will happen next? THE Council of Cardi- CATHOLIC media have received the ITS MAIN reported change is the nals has reportedly story cautiously. The original report creation of a ‘‘super-dicastery’’ for approved the final came in an exclusive article by Dario evangelisation, combining the work draft of a new Vatican Menor Torres of the Spanish weekly currently overseen by the Congrega- constitution. Praedicate Vida Nueva. Other publications may tion for the Evangelisation of Peoples Evangelium (Preach the be biding their time until Pope Francis and the Pontifical Council for the Gospel), will replace makes an official announcement. Promotion of the New Evangelisa- Pastor Bonus (The There may also be an attitude of tion. This would reportedly be placed Good Shepherd), “We’ll believe it when we see it”: the above the Congregation of the S N

promulgated by St John C document has been five years in the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The Paul II in 1988. The Relegation? CDF making and there have often been symbolism of relegating the doctrinal apostolic constitution Prefect Cardinal reports that it was on the verge of office would be controversial. outlines the structure Luis Ladaria appearing. Yet if Torres is right, The draft will now be sent to the of the Curia and its Francis could sign the new constitu- other dicasteries and episcopal workings. tion by the end of June. conferences for approval.

 e week ahead

MANY CHURCHES will be holding serv- ON SUNDAY April 28 Spain WEDNESDAY May 1 is the feast of St A ices for Divine Mercy Sunday, which goes to the polls for its I Joseph the Worker (left), an optional D E M

as always takes place a week after first general election since I memorial. It was instituted by Pope K I

Easter Sunday. Preceded by a novena 2016. The Socialist PSOE W Pius XII in 1955, to coincide with Inter- / R

which began on Good Friday, it is a party leads in the polls, U national Workers’ Day, partly to show O T

day to implore God’s mercy. but would need to forma A that there was a Catholic alternative to L E

The Divine Mercy devotion came coalition to govern. PP, D communism. The Pope said he wanted S

about through the visions of St Faustina which is second in the E to “reaffirm … the dignity of work, and G R

Kowalska, a 20th-century Polish polls, proposes restricting O inspire social life and laws based on a E mystic. access to abortion. G fair share of rights and duties”.

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Parisians knelt to pray, Notre-Dame was many the roof burns off, it’s is rather unpleasant: the The week in even as the flames rose things – an “artistic mon- hard for [the fire] to stage-fright I had when quotations ument, selfie backdrop, spread to the rest of the I had to give a Lenten architectural masterpiece, building”. lecture there.” film location, historical Medieval builders, Persecution of site”. But its primary pur- conscious of the risk of an intensity pose had always been a fire, used stone vaults. sacred one – and “even The roof is timber, but and extent At his blog, William as the old church was the structure underneath unprecedented Newton reflected on the being destroyed, it man- is generally able to with- scenes in Paris after the aged to bring together stand fire. In Rémi Brague’s re- in many fire broke out. “Hundreds those who seek eternal Moreover, Capps and marks to Le Point, trans- centuries of Parisian Catholics, life through Him who O’Sullivan wrote, the lated for First Things by Cardinal Vincent many of them young promised, ‘I shall rise roof’s destruction does Stephen E Lewis, he said, Nichols and Justin people, were kneeling again.’” not lead to an overall col- however, that the fire was Welby, Archbishop of together on the streets lapse, as it might in an- a chance to reflect on the Canterbury, on the around the burning Why the cathedral other building. That’s Marian meaning of the threat to Christians Cathedral for hours.” is still standing because, “In 12th- and cathedral. Thus: “The Joint statement To some, it was a 13th-century buildings of question that this fire baffling sight: “Like the this type, the walls are poses to us, and which all Ancient Romans com- held in place by flying these traces pose to us Eventothe menting on the way that buttresses” – pillars con- more discreetly, is that of secular eye the the Early Christians went nected to the main build- knowing what we want word that to their deaths in the ing by arches. The to do about them: destroy Colosseum, the secular At CityLab, Kriston weight of the walls, roof them, like the Islamic keeps coming media had no idea how to Capps and Feargus and ceiling is transferred State had begun to do to to mind is process the sight of peo- O’Sullivan looked at the to these buttresses, all that preceded Islam? ple praying the rosary architectural reasons for amounting to what Embalm them with miracle and singing hymns to the Notre-Dame’s survival. Reilly calls “a structural museographical aestheti- Sophie Pedderof the Mother of God, even as Gothic architecture is exo-skeleton”. cism in ‘the purple Economist on Notre- the most famous building “strong stuff”, they shroud in which the dead Dame’s survival in the world dedicated to wrote, “built to withstand After the fire, a choice gods slumber’? Find Twitter her was being reduced even an inferno”. Lisa for the French nation once again the spiritual to ashes.” Such is the Reilly, a historian at the For the French philoso- impetus that used to carry incomprehensibility University of Virginia, pher Rémi Brague, the them, and which could My freedom of the Faith – “foolish- observed that cathedrals cathedral carried no dear give birth to new master- of speech ness to Gentiles”, as from Notre-Dame’s era personal memories: “My pieces, artistic but also has been St Paul wrote. were “designed so that if memory of Notre-Dame social? There’s a choice.” sacrificed for a politically  Meanwhile... correct agenda thatnoone  There was some Marc Fournier, chaplain  The satirical web- bleak amusement to be to the fire brigade, had site The Onion, mean- now dare had in the media’s carried “a statue of while, took advantage disagree with struggles as it reported Jesus” out of the burn- of France’s reputation Kristie Higgs, a teacher on the Notre-Dame ing cathedral. A correc- for melancholy existen- fired after criticising fire. Some news sources tion was later added: it tialism. “Paris Vows To transgender teaching seemed surprised that a wasn’t a statue the priest Rebuild Notre-Dame Mail on Sunday cathedral might be a had rescued, but the Despite Cosmic Absurd- sacred site: “Tourist Blessed Sacrament. ity Of Seeking Inherent mecca Notre-Dame also The London Times, Meaning In Fleeting Statistic of revered as place of wor- meanwhile, referred to Creations Of Man,” the the week ship,” was the flat- the Blessed Sacrament site reported. footed headline on an as one of “Notre-Dame’s It “quoted” President Associated Press report. most important relics”, Emmanuel Macron as Another venerable along with the Crown of saying the rebuilt cathe-

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Toronto New York City Priest’s praise of Francis plagiarised from anti-Catholic site Man arrested with petrol in New York cathedral ALLEGATIONS of plagiarism against a prominent AMANhas been arrested after reportedly trying priest have taken an unexpected turn. Fr Thomas to take cans of petrol into St Patrick’s Cathedral Rosica (left, CNS photo), a Vatican adviser and CEO in New York. Marc Lamparello, a PhD student of the Salt+Light TV network, has apologised for at City University of New York, was stopped by multiple cases of using other writers’ work without security staff. attribution. Fr Rosica has gone on sabbatical. Now it He has now been charged with attempted has emerged that his most contentious statement was arson, reckless endangerment, and illegally S

itself plagiarised. Last year, he claimed that Pope transporting flammable materials in public N Francis “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants” and that the places. Lamparello graduated from Boston C Church is now “openly ruled by an individual rather than … its own College, a Jesuit school, in 2004. Since then, he has been a dictates of tradition plus Scripture”. These words were, it appears, philosophy instructor at several universities. taken from a blog by Richard Bennett, a Protestant writer who was Police said they did not suspect terrorism, and have described criticising Pope Francis, the Jesuit spiritual tradition and the papacy. Lamparello as “emotionally disturbed”.

Trenton, New Jersey Catholic governor signs assisted suicide bill THE GOVERNOR of New Jersey has authorised an assisted suicide bill, despite being, in his own words, a “lifelong, practising Catholic”. Governor Phil Murphy signed the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act into law on April 12. Under the new law, those with a terminal illness and less than six months to live may ask a doctor for medication to end their life; they then administer it themselves. “After careful consideration, internal reflection and prayer, I have concluded that, while my faith may lead me to a particular decision for myself, as a public official I cannot deny this alterna- tive to those who may reach a different conclusion,” said Gover- nor Murphy. Bishop James Checchio of Metuchen called the new law “a brazen attack against the sanctity of human life”.

Tegucigalpa Cardinal faces allegations THE MOST senior churchman in Honduras has come under attack in a new book by a long- standing acquaintance. Cardinal Óscar Maradi- aga of Tegucigalpa, faces several allegations from Martha Reichmann, whose late husband was the Honduran ambassador to the Holy See.

Reichmann’s book, Traiciones Sacradas S N (Sacred Betrayal), claims that the cardinal C protected an auxiliary bishop who resigned last year after allega- tions of sexual and financial misconduct. Reichmann claims that Pope Francis protected Cardinal Maradiaga in turn. The cardinal has not commented yet, but has previously complained about being “slandered”.

Brasília Caracas Bishops adopt new handbook on abuse Venezuelans ‘return to the faith’ amid nation’s tragedy THE BRAZILIAN Conference of National Bish- PRIESTS in parts of Venezuela are speaking of a surge in Mass ops (BCNB), responsible for the world’s attendance as formerly apathetic Catholics turn back towards God. largest Catholic population, has adopted new The Washington Post reported that with the political situation still measures for dealing with allegations of priestly abuse. in turmoil, and facing food shortages, power cuts and lack of clean The Conference’s handbook, published in March, states: water, people are finding their way back to the Church. “The [BCNB], with this document, reaffirms its unconditional Fr Jesús Godoy, a priest in Chacao, Caracas, told the Post that adherence to a zero-tolerance stance regarding cases of sexual he now sees 2,000 people each weekend. “All my Masses are full, abuse of minors, according to what Pope Francis has affirmed.” which has never happened before,” said Fr Godoy. “They beg for Eduardo Campos Lima, of Crux, reports that the guide stresses help. They want God to give them the tools to live in crisis.” “the need to collaborate with the authorities and demonstrate full support to the investigations”.

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Vatican City Christ can release nations from violence, says Pope Vatican City EASTER IS “the feast of tombstones taken away, rocks rolled aside”, Pope exchanges warm words with teenage activist Pope Francis said at the Easter Vigil in St Peter’s Basilica. During POPE FRANCIS has given words of the liturgy, Pope Francis baptized and confirmed eight adults, who encouragement to a young environmen- were between the ages of 21 and 60. The five women and three tal activist. Greta Thunberg, aged 16, men included four Italians and one person each from Ecuador, has become famous as leader of the Peru, Albania and Indonesia. “school strike” movement. Thunberg S N

The following day, while giving his Easter blessing, Francis thanked Francis for “speaking the C prayed aloud: “May the one who gives us his peace end the roar of truth”. He replied: “God bless you, arms – both in areas of conflict and in our cities – and inspire the continue to work, continue. Go along, go ahead.” The Pope leaders of nations to work for an end to the arms race and the trou- has addressed the issue several times, notably in his encycli- bling spread of weaponry, especially in the economically more cal Laudato Si’ and at a meeting with oil executives last year. advanced countries”

Seoul Bishops condemn abortion ruling THE BISHOPS of South Korea have expressed “profound regret” after the country’s highest court opened the way to pro-abortion laws. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional to prevent the termination of a pregnancy. “The Constitutional Court sentence negates the fundamental right for a foetus to live,” the bishops said.

Khartoum Sydney Christians live in hope after al-Bashir ousted Rugbyplayer punished after allusion to St Paul l SUDANESE Christians are hoping for a future free A LEADINg rugby player has been disciplined after alluding to from oppression after Islamist dictator Omar St Paul’s warning about sin. Israel Folau posted on Instagram: al-Bashir was deposed in a military coup. “Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, athe- Edward Clancy of Aid to the Church in Need ists and idolators – Hell awaits you.” The list is adapted from 1

told Crux: “It will be good news if the Christians Y Corinthians 6:. The word arsenokoitai, sometimes loosely trans- T T are protected in the new government and if the E lated as the modern word “homosexuals”, refers more precisely to people have religious freedom ... if the Christian G men who are sexually active with other men. Rugby Australia, the minority is afforded the opportunity to live and work freely.” governing body, wants to bar Folau from the game. He is contest- Sudanese Catholics are among the most persecuted in the world. ing the decision. Though Christians once made up 10 per cent of the population, Margaret Court, Australia’s most successful tennis player ever, South Sudan’s secession in 2011 reduced this to less than two said: “What he is saying about repenting is straight out of the per cent. Bible. My heart goes out to him because he’s being persecuted.” , CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 9 Vatican

Communications In response to a teacher’s question regarding how best to convey the core commitments of Christian culture in a The Pope’s editors manner consistent with the reality of culturally diverse societies, Francis said, “[A]t the beginning you spoke about a multi-ethnic and multicultural society. Why Vatican officials ‘tidy up’ papal speeches Let us thank God for this! Let us thank God, because dialogue among cultures, among people, among ethnicities is a here was a pretty big stink in which to kill children, with which to kill richness.” certain quarters earlier this month people. We are the ones who create differ- He went on to say, “[T]oday there is the over some very selective editing of ences – and you must state this clearly, up temptation to build a culture of walls, to off-the-cuffT remarks Pope Francis made to front, without fear.” raise walls, walls in the heart, walls on the the students, faculty and staff of the San The places Francis named are excised land in order to impede this encounter Carlo Institute of Milan. Here is the from the official transcript, which reads with other cultures, with other people.” essence of what happened. instead: “… But why do they wage such Francis then delivered his signature line The April 6 event with San Carlo’s a cruel war? Because other countries on the subject: “Those who raise a wall, folks was a typically Franciscan Q&A – sell weapons, with which they kill who build a wall, will end up a slave at least when it came to the Holy Father’s children, people …” within the walls he has built, without answers. The Pope had the questions and Thus, a specific and explicit indictment horizons.” During the course of that worked from notes in answering them, of Europe – which may or may not have response, however, the Pope also got into but did not deliver prepared remarks. In included Russia (a member of both the specifics – apparently more than his offi- response to the first question – regarding Council of Europe and the Organisation cial redactors found opportune to release. God’s apparent penchant for playing for Security and Co-operation in Europe) “Jesus was a migrant,” Pope Francis favourites – Francis offered a lengthy – and the United States became a general offered. “People say [migrants] are delin- disquisition on “differences”. complaint against countries that trade in quents. We have our own share of delin- “We create differences,” Francis said. “I weapons of war. quents here as well. am certain that all of you want peace,” the Italian outlets reported Pope Francis’s “It was not the Nigerians who invented original transcript (translated) reads. “ exact words the same day of the event, the mafia,” he added in reference to the ‘And why are there so many wars?’ for but appeared not to have noticed the influx of Nigerians to Italy. example, in Yemen, in Syria, in departures and omissions in the official Portions of the citizenry view this with Afghanistan?” transcript. suspicion, owing to the presence of Niger- Francis went on to say: “If they had no Pope Francis also spoke to another sore ian crime syndicates that run, among other weapons, they would not wage war. But subject during the San Carlo session: things, significant portions of the sex why do they wage such a cruel war?” The immigration and the so-called “Nigerian trade in Italy (and have since the 1980s). answer Francis gave – as evidenced from Mafia” in Italy. There was another “It is a national ‘treasure’, the mafia is the video – continued: “Because we – rich episode of “censorship” in the official ours, ‘made in Italy’, it’s ours – and all of Europe, America – sell weapons, with transcript. us have the possibility of becoming delin- quents,” the Pope said. The entire passage was excised from the official transcript. On the day of the event, Italian-language journalists reported Pope Francis’s ipsissima verba regarding migrants and mafiosi, but did not pick up on the discrepancies. Not surprisingly, however, other news outlets took note of the changes. Breitbart cottoned on to the changes and reported the story in English on April 8, while the German-language kath.net picked up the story on April 10. Scripta manent, verba volant, the old adage runs. We usually render it: “The written word remains, while spoken words fly away.” The sense of the thing is clear: written – and a fortiori printed – words are fixed fast, and become the offi- cial record of what one said, while spoken words are heard if at all, then are lost on the wind. That was true until the age of audio recording. Now we have audio-visual S N

C records, too. Hence the kerfuffle. Pope Francis gave off-the-cuff answers to students from Milan’s San Carlo Institute Christopher Altieri

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suppressed free speech. Student bodies belonging to the universities may, however, be open to regulation. Unions must also abide by equality and human rights laws. This was tested earlier in 2019 when Glasgow Students for Life was denied affili- ation to the university’s Students’ Represen- tative Council and its corresponding benefits of the use of premises and a booth at the freshers’ fair. The students’ council had claimed it would be contrary to its ethos to endorse “a society which calls for limited rights for women”. It backed down when the pro-life group threat- ened legal action, arguing that it had a right to the same privileges enjoyed by pro-abortion groups at the university. The group had been supported by ADF L

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I ADF, said: “Freedom of speech is the foun- N dation of every free and democratic society. Of all places, a university is where students Free speech should be free to debate and explore ideas, even those with which we may disagree. “It simply does not work when astudents’ Melting snowflakes body picks sides and censors the one with which it disagrees.” Other university groups are now also being challenged over their intolerance, with the Pro-life groups are fighting back against campus censorship – and winning latest case involving a complaint by Aberdeen Life Ethics Society against the Aberdeen University students’ association. here is something of afree speech “Universities are places where people can The pro-life group was denied affiliate crisis in British universities. The encounter challenging and, at times, uncom- status in October because the students’ asso- propensity to ban the discussion or fortable ideas, sometimes for the first time. ciation had a pro-abortion position. It is now promotionT of ideas which some students This is something which we should encour- mounting alegalchallengeto its exclusion, might oppose or find offensive has led to the age, rather than [something we should] seek on the grounds of discrimination. phenomena of no-platforming, safe spaces to protect students from.” Alex Mason, a doctoral student and and other means of exclusion. This policy was welcomed by religious and founder of the society, told The Tab website it The fragility and delicacy of some pro-life groups in particular. Small wonder. should be normal for universities to “foster students, their shameless intolerance, have In the past decade universities have, for free debate and discussion over important now become asource of fun for their older example, excluded Jewish groups (on the ethical issues like abortion. Unfortunately, compatriots, who often refer to them as grounds that they might support Israel), there is alot of socialpressure on young “snowflakes”. banned Bibles in halls of residence because people to conform to the pro-abortion view- The situation might be risible were it not so they were insufficiently multicultural, and, point. For many of us, our pro-life beliefs grave, given that universities are institutions on numerous occasions, denied the right of were forged from our understanding of gesta- charged with preparing talented young people association to pro-life students. tional science, as well as our Christian faith, for vital roles in society, including leadership. Life, the pro-life pregnancy counselling and the ability to express these beliefs must Indeed, the Government has already inter- charity, was even excluded from freshers’ be protected.” vened in an attempt to avert the development fairs at Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Aberdeen University (pictured), mean- of what might have resulted in tragedy as Roehampton, Northampton and Warwick while, is making clear that it does not oppose crucial democratic rights are gradually mere weeks after government policy on free membership of the pro-life group in the eroded. Last year, it imposed a duty on all speech came into effect. students’ association. “The university is universities to demonstrate to the Office for This prompted the charity to complain to an inclusive community and recognises Students (the regulator for higher education) the OfS, which agreed that Life should be different beliefs, values and cultures,” said how they will uphold freedom of speech. permitted to “publicise its work and services aspokesman. Sir Michael Barber, chairman of the OfS, to students”. The Office said, however, that The two cases may suggest that universi- said he wanted to see from universities “the it could not actively intervene because its ties are at last seeing sense in challenging the widest possible definition of free speech”. regulatory powers did not extend to the “snowflake” culture, even if their motivations “We will never seek to limit freedom of students’ unions and associations barring are purely practical in origin. It would be to speech within the law, and we will always such activity. their benefit and that of the country if use our powers to promote rather than restrict The universities minister, too, declared students eventually followed suit. it,” he said. “Education and scholarship himself helpless when it came to directing are advanced through dialogue and debate. activities of the unions – even when they Simon Caldwell

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officials publicly criticising their own bishop is practically unprecedented. Even very conservative colleges tend to be reti- cent in their dealings with the clergy, since the diocese has a say in everything from their chaplaincy programme to whether they can officially call themselves “Catholic”. Still unusual, however, was the response by the president of one such conservative college: Ave Maria University in Florida. Many were surprised when its president, Jim Towey, issued a blistering attack on Pope Francis’s critics in the wake of the publication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s “testimony”. He claimed the letter was part of a “rift between Pope Francis and some conservative members of the Church hierarchy”. Mr Towey argued that Archbishop Viganò timed its publication “to inflict the maximum damage possible to the Pope’s credibility, and the choreographed chorus

S of support by others in league with them, N C was just as troubling.” He added: “Contrary to the popular narrative, most Abuse crisis conservative Catholics are not following suit and embracing their defiance, and certainly not on our campus … when Grading the bishop Church dissent becomes openly hostile and rebellious, and some members of the hier- archy assert their opinions as if they were elected pope instead of Francis, faithful A Catholic university president calls for the resignation of Bishop Malone Catholics like our students will rally to the Supreme Pontiff’s defence.” Of course, defending the Pope isn’t the ow do Catholic colleges help to abandoned office that was then dialed same as defending the local ordinary. But reform the Church in the wake of into remotely from the victim assistance the question they seek to answer, about the the latest revelations of clerical sex coordinator. So for the first three weeks, role of Catholic educators in such crises, is abuse?H Answers vary widely across the you actually couldn’t have received a the same. Dr DePerro seems to give the hundreds of tertiary institutions that iden- live response.” (The diocese has said impression of institutions ordered towards tify with the Faith. Dr Dennis DePerro, the that O’Connor’s allegations are internal reform, whereas Mr Towey’s are president of Bonaventure University, has “contradictory”). ordered towards defending against Catholi- taken an unusually proactive tack, calling So Dr DePerro wouldn’t be the only cism’s enemies. If you see universities on his local ordinary, Bishop Richard layman in Buffalo who believes that principally as a means of changing the Malone of Buffalo, to resign. Bishop Malone ought to resign. Still, culture within the Church, you may sympa- While Dr DePerro admires Bishop others argue that, while he might not be thise more with Dr DePerro; if you believe Malone’s “unflinching desire to repair the the most media-savvy prelate in America, their first duty is to train young Catholics damage” caused by abuse, he observes that Bishop Malone has followed every as apologists and evangelists, you may “sometimes, the most courageous thing a protocol for handling abuse in the diocese. agree more with Mr Towey. man can do is to step aside and recognise A spokeswoman for the diocese responded Naturally, whether any of this is effective that his voice is no longer being heard and to Dr DePerro’s comment by saying: remains to be seen. University presidents that he stands in the way of creating true “We suspect that Dr DePerro has not fully aren’t the class of people one usually looks resolution.” studied the carefully developed and well- to for leadership in such crises as this one. To be sure, Bishop Malone (pictured) has publicised protocols of the Diocese of That’s why some onlookers criticised Mr faced considerably more than the ordinary Buffalo.” She insisted that “the bishop has Towey’s defence of Pope Francis, saying amount of criticism. Last autumn, a former received helpful input from others, includ- he inserted his college into a messy dispute diocesan employee went public with ing the president of Canisius College and for no obvious reason. And many no doubt concerns that the diocese was covering up other members of the Movement to Restore would argue that, whether they’re calling the potential threat to the laity. According Trust, on how diocesan procedures might for a prelate to resign or rebuffing those to Siobahn O’Connor, a list of more than be improved. The bishop would have who do, Catholic educators’ job of forming 100 names of credibly accused priests was welcomed and still would accept such young minds is difficult enough. Wading edited down to 42, in order to protect the input from Dr DePerro, but to criticise the into these controversies doesn’t make it diocese’s reputation and assets. She also bishop for following established protocols any easier. criticised the diocese’s victim-help hotline, is unjust.” saying: “The calls were actually sent to an Regardless, to have Catholic university Michael Warren Davis

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migrants are “heroes” who are “often have more skills or are more willing to work” than the Spanish.) Officially speaking, the meeting was a “strictly private affair”, but the Vatican press office’s interim director Alessandro Gisotti described the gathering as “cordial”. Members of Lega – formerly known as the Northern League – expressed disap- proval of the Spanish mayors’ visit. Immi- gration spokesman Toni Iwobi (Italy’s first black senator) asked: “Where were these mayors earlier, when uncontrolled immigra- tion created social unrest? When big money was made exploiting immigrants? Or when thousands of immigrants were left to their fate?” But speaking to Spanish television, Pope Francis was blunt: “To have blocked a ship is an injustice. Why do they do it? To drown them?” Y T T

E Critics claim that the Pope’s stance on G migration is simplistic. Angela Merkel’s plan to welcome a million migrants into Italy Germany, they say, looks good in the head- lines, but the reality on the ground is that it enables the economic exploitation of the The populist and the Pope vulnerable by criminal gangs of people smugglers and sex traffickers. The “ports closed” policy seems inhuman in our Salvini is at odds with Francis on migration, but reportedly still wants an audience image-conscious age but according to supporters it offers the strongest hope of ending or significantly lessening the encour- ith a popularity rating of 59 per considerably less approval: the Vatican. agement of criminals to put migrants’ lives cent and his right-wing Lega Rumours in Rome claim the interior minis- at risk through Mediterranean crossings. movement’s poll figures now ter wants nothing more than to be received Meanwhile, one in three young Italians of double the vote it took in last year’s general by the Holy Father in the Casa Santa Marta, working age is out of a job. Italy’s infra- W structure is overwhelmed, short of invest- election, Italian interior minister Matteo but Pope Francis has steered a cautious and Salvini is the man of the moment. The critical course in his dealings with Salvini. ment and has suffered decades of neglect. selfie-obsessed politician has made ample No formal request has been made, but the As the partial collapse of a four-lane motor- use of social media to bypass established feelers which have been put out have come way bridge in Genoa last year demon- media channels, cutting out the middleman back with a clear message: until the govern- strated, some of it is literally falling apart. to get his message across directly to Italian ment drops its “ports closed” policy, Salvini If Pope Francis is such a critic, why is voters. won’t get his selfie with the Pope. Salvini so keen to meet him? The reason is Essential to Salvini’s popularity has been It’s not that the Vatican has shut the inte- clear: Italy’s seven million practising his firm – and much criticised – stand rior minister out completely; in September, Catholicvoters. A sizable portion may vote against illegal immigration and people he was warmly received at a celebration of for the Lega already but much of the trafficking amid the migrant crisis in the the feast of St Michael the Archangel jointly Catholiclay establishment remains wary of Mediterranean. Since the NATO interven- organised by Italian police and the Vatican the populist party. The weekly magazine tion in Libya, a long stretch of the North gendarmerie. But the event was excluded Famiglia Cristiana, for example, with a African littoral is now a lawless and from the Vatican’s official agenda and was circulation of half a million, has taken a ungoverned area. Criminal gangs have not promoted by the Holy See’s Press very strong line against Salvini, with one stepped into the breach, preying on the Office. front cover comparing him to Satan with the hopes of thousands of disadvantaged people More telling than cold shoulders are those headline “Vade retro Salvini”. across Africa and the Middle East, extract- who have been welcomed warmly. Spanish Salvini knows that being received by the ing huge profits with the promise of getting politicians on the left have jumped over Holy Father in the Casa Santa Marta could migrants into Europe. themselves to condemn Salvini’s policy and calm establishment Catholic opposition to Italy faces a particular burden given its were delighted when Spain accepted one of him and help him win more votes. All the extensive coastline and proximity to Libya. the vessels turned away by Italy’s closed same, he can’t afford to dump his most As the minister in charge of borders and ports. Pope Francis recently received popular and successful policy for the sake security, Salvini has unabashedly sought the Madrid mayor Manuela Carmena and of a photo op. With Salvini riding a popular- limelight for his policy of totally closing all Barcelona mayor Ada Colau alongside ity high already, there’s unlikely to be any Italian ports to vessels carrying migrants Óscar Camps, founder of the pro-migrant movement on the part of either the Pope or rescued in the Mediterranean. NGO Open Arms. (As mayor of the Spanish the politician in the immediate future. While the policy has proved popular with capital, Carmena abolished the city’s offi- voters, there is one place it has found cial Nativity scene and said undocumented Andrew Cusack

14 CATHOLIC HERALD, APRIL 26 2019 Diary ANTOINE ROGER LOKONGO

Kinshasa colonialism and troubled independence, the country is taking charge of itself. very Holy Week begins with the Shortly before attending the Way of the celebration of Palm Sunday. For us Cross, three men digging while sweating in the Democratic Republic of under the scorching sun asked me for CongoE (DRC), there is no shortage of water. Remembering Christ’s words on the palm leaves. In fact, here in our parish of Cross – “I am thirsty” – I bought three St Perpetua, a stone’s throw from the banks packets of water for them. They really of the River Congo, tall palm leaves were appreciated the gesture. Throughout the planted along the procession route and Way of the Cross, I meditated on the waved during the procession to commemo- number three (the Trinity) and Jesus rate the triumphal entry of Jesus into thirsting for the fulfilment of God’s will. Jerusalem. The coincidence intrigued me. Our procession began from a large Equally thought-provoking was the fact private compound adorned with trees and that, as the narrative of the Passion of the flowers (it felt like the Garden of Olives) Lord Jesus was being read on Palm made available by a wealthy Christian. As Sunday, a local cock crowed four times we went along singing, in Latin as well as remain missing. Poor infrastructure puts (not three) immediately after the part the vernacular, and waving palms, I kept the lives of many in peril. where Simon Peter denied Jesus. Little on thinking that the crowd in Jerusalem did things like that happen in our lives but it not pick the palms only because they were owever, there are many signs of hope takes the eyes of faith to see the meaning readily available. The palm tree, one of the here. The workers who are rebuilding behind them. DRC’s precious natural resources, is very theH road leading to our parish are all life-giving. Therefore it symbolises Jesus. Congolese. After a long experience of he laity too are taking the initiative. In Lent, Mgr Edouard Kisonga, t is clear that our country needs a better AuxiliaryT Bishop of the Archdiocese of political class, as well as a clergy “puri- Kinshasa, came to our church to install fiedI of the old leaven, so that they become our new parish priest, a missionary from a new dough”, as St Paul puts it. In fact, Zambia, and lay the foundation stone for Holy Thursday had a dual significance in the building of a new parish church. Kinshasa. First, because Mgr Fridolin At the end of Mass, the bishop Ambongo presided over his first Chrism announced that he had run out of fuel. Mass as Metropolitan Archbishop of Lourdes Pilgrimages from £350 We had to take another collection. Then he Kinshasa, during which he warned more surprised us by saying he was not in need than a hundred priests working in the Arch- 18 Apr [Easter 2019], of fuel after all. 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, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 15 Cover story The struggle for Notre-Dame The cathedral’s reconstruction will once again pit Church against state

SAMUEL GREGG

he Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, is renowned for his calm demeanor and easy-going manner. TThat made it all the more significant when, during a recent radio interview following President Emmanuel Macron’s address to the nation about the burning of Notre- Dame Cathedral, Aupetit expressed his astonishment at Macron’s failure to mention Catholics as among those affected by the drama surrounding what is, after all, a functioning and active Catholic cathedral. “Le mot catholique n’est pas un gros mot,” he insisted. (“The word ‘Catholic’ is not a swear word.”) In the aftermath of the fire which destroyed a major part of an edifice which means a great deal to France, many have focused on the significant architectural and

historical losses. Fewer, however, have Y T T E

reflected upon the role which Notre-Dame G has played in the life of French Catholi- cism, especially after the Revolution. Before 1789, few would have identified Notre-Dame as French Catholicism’s epicentre. Like most things in pre-revolu- Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit criticised Emmanuel Macron’s address to the nation tionary France, much of the French Church’s energy focused upon the royal food. It was seemingly forgotten to history. much of the Church’s life to the French court at Versailles between 1661 and 1789. A few years later, Notre-Dame’s fortunes state. This makes it all the more ironic that Even before then, the cathedrals of changed when Napoleon determined that some of the 19th century’s most powerful Chartres and Reims were considered more his regime’s security required reconcilia- catechetical sermons were delivered in significant churches: the former on account tion between the Revolution and the Notre-Dame in 1835 by an avowed of its sheer beauty, the latter as the tradi- Church. Though the state continued (and Concordat critic, Fr Henri-Dominique tional coronation site for France’s kings. continues to this day) to own the buildings, Lacordaire. Thousands came to listen to As the city where Clovis, le roi de tous les exclusive use of the cathedral was trans- the priest whose preaching brought many Francs (king of all the Frankish tribes), ferred to the Church following the 1801 sceptics to faith and who weren’t adverse was baptised on Christmas Day circa 499, Concordat between Paris and Rome. to his message of “a Free Church in a it is Reims, not Paris, which even today is Napoleon made a point of being crowned Free State”. seen as representing France’s beginnings as Lacordaire’s addresses sparked Notre- la fille aînée de l'Église (the eldest daugh- Before 1789, few would have Dame’s re-emergence as a place for evan- ter of the Church). gelisation in a city beginning to experience Like many other things in France, this identified Notre-Dame as all the economic and social upheavals asso- state of affairs changed dramatically in ciated with the Industrial Revolution. 1789 and the subsequent movement of French Catholicism’s epicentre Today the homiletic tradition begun by French political life back to Paris. Initially Lacordaire is known as the Conférences de this didn’t benefit Notre-Dame at all. in Notre-Dame in 1804 and had numerous carême à Notre-Dame de Paris and it Following Pope Pius VI’s condemnation of Te Deums sung there to commemorate his continues to be based in Notre-Dame. the French National Assembly’s Constitu- military victories. One side-effect was to Speakers in more recent years have tion civile du clergé in March 1791, the foster a symbolic identification between included the convert-writer Fabrice Revolution’s anti-Catholic dimension Notre-Dame and post-revolutionary France Hadjadj as well as Rémi Brague, regarded became far more evident. in many Frenchmen’s minds, something by many as Europe’s most important The Revolution’s subsequent war against which could never have been realised at Catholic intellectual. the Church included turning Notre-Dame Reims or Versailles due to their associa- into a temple for “the Cult of Reason” and tions with the Ancien Régime. here is, however, another side to Notre- “the Supreme Being” in 1793. Shortly after Though the Concordat provided the Dame. This relates to its role as a stage Robespierre’s fall in 1794, the cathedral Church with some protection from anti- Tfor many of the controversies marking became a storage place for weapons and clericals, it also once again subordinated French Catholicism which are never far

, 16 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 beneath the surface of the French Church’s memory. Perhaps the most significant of these concerns the ambiguous path followed by the Church during the dark years of German occupation between 1940 and 1944. That the vast majority of French bishops and French Catholics – like most French- men – opted for Marshal Philippe Pétain and Vichy rather than Free France in 1940 is indisputable. But as the war continued and Vichy’s collaboration with Germany deepened (including active participation in the deportation of Jews to death camps in the East), the splits among French Catholics grew more pronounced. Some joined Vichy paramilitary groups like the infamous Milice. Others entered the Resist- ance. Yet other Catholics sought to straddle both worlds. Notre-Dame became a place where these divisions were put on full display. In April 1944, the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, who had protested against the round-up of Jews in Paris in July 1942, welcomed Pétain to Notre-Dame before an enthusiastic crowd of thousands. Just two months later, Suhard presided in the cathedral at the funeral of the collaborator, notorious anti-Semite and devout Catholic Philippe Henriot, following his assassination by Resistance members. On August 26 that same year, another devout Catholic, General Charles de Gaulle, participated in a public ceremony at Notre- Dame, again with thousands in attendance inside and outside, held to celebrate Paris’s liberation from the Germans. De Gaulle’s deep faith, however, didn’t inhibit him from informing Suhard that His Eminence’s pres- ence in his own cathedral that day would be undesirable, given the cardinal’s very public closeness to Vichy. In recent decades, Notre-Dame has been part of something more hopeful in the life of French Catholicism. When Jean-Marie Lustiger, a convert from Judaism, was appointed Archbishop of Paris in 1981, the Church in France was well down the accom- modationist path that’s presently emptying out German Catholicism. Over the next 24 years, le bulldozer, as he was known by friend and foe alike, built a series of institu- tions located around Notre-Dame, like the Ecole-cathédrale in the rue Massillon, which have over time injected new vigour into Catholic Paris. The “dynamic orthodoxy” that Cardinal Lustiger wanted his archdiocese to embody has been on display in Notre- Y T T E

Dame ever since. G Whether it’s regular public prayers, lectures by distinguished Catholic thinkers, or The devastated interior of Notre-Dame well-attended Masses characterised by solid preaching, there’s little doubt that Paris’s enter into France’s history. No one questions this fact as it contemplates Notre-Dame’s practising Catholics now regard Notre-Dame that, least of all French Catholics. But as future. as far more than a museum. For them, it is a Archbishop Aupetit reminded France’s presi- For the French state to do otherwise would major locus of their religious life in the City dent, the cathedral’s full meaning is incom- not only be an insult to France’s Catholics. of Lights. Many of them were seen with their prehensible without situating it in the life of It would also result in a grave injustice being archbishop and priests in the streets around Catholic France, especially post-1789. For done to the history and collective memory of Notre-Dame singing prayers and hymns as that reason alone, I don’t doubt that Aupetit France itself. the cathedral burned throughout the night of and his flock will be relentless – as le bull- April 15. dozer himself would surely have been – in Samuel Gregg is research director at the To look upon Notre-Dame is certainly to insisting that France’s government recognises Acton Institute

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he essay on sexual abuse by Pope Benedict to be, at best, a minor offence, is Emeritus Benedict XVI merits atten- it at all surprising that Benedict would not tion for its analysis of the ecclesial entrust his essay to Mgr Viganò’s depart- andT cultural trends that led to the sexual ment? Who knows what changes Viganò abuse crisis. But the manner of the essay’s might make and pass off as the original? publication also illuminates the current Indeed, only a foolish Benedict would give compromised state of Catholic media. Viganò and company another chance to Columnist Ross Douthat of the The manipulate him. New York Times wrote that “portions of the It was also wise to ensure that a reliable document were edifying, but there was English translation was ready to go imme- little edifying in its reception. It was passed diately. Had the essay been released only in first to conservative Catholic outlets, German, its initial reception would have whose palpable Benedict nostalgia was been shaped in an environment dominated soon matched by fierce criticism from by the well-funded German bishops’ Francis partisans.” communications presence. The German Indeed the increasingly partisan nature bishops’ website, katholisch.de, did indeed of the Catholic press, combined with the criticise the essay, but a global audience tattered credibility of the Vatican own’s did not have to rely on the German reac- media, explains why Pope Emeritus tion, given that the document was widely

Benedict XVI released his essay in such a Y available in English. T T strange way. E Commenting on the negative coverage The essay, written in German, was G of the essay, former Vatican doctrinal chief consigned to a small journal in Bavaria for The Pope Emeritus: no fool Cardinal Gerhard Müller said: “It is brutal priests, a rather unusual place for an essay when in the name of the bishops – and on a that would be of global interest. At the re-appointed him – the same day – as a website funded by them – such obscene same time, the essay, rather expertly senior deputy in the same Vatican depart- articles are being commissioned which translated into English, was made available ment of communications. demean personalities like Benedict XVI as to various English outlets friendly to More broadly, Vatican communications not even the most ignorant enemies of the Benedict. has had a rough year since Viganò’s decep- Church would venture to do it, for, they Not only was it not released through tion. In December, Pope Francis approved still have more respect and decency. official Vatican channels, it appears that it the removal of L’Osservatore Romano’s “Our progressivists have, after throwing took Vatican media organs by surprise editor-in-chief and the installation of a overboard the sexual morality, also lost the when it was released. (Benedict wrote that commandment to love one’s neighbour. It he had “contacted” Pope Francis about his Itappearsthatittook is naked hatred that is here given a plat- essay, but not that the Holy Father had form. I hope that bishops will exercise their approved its publication.) Vatican media organs by responsibility, in order to implement a Why might Benedict and his household change of course of this platform or other- have chosen to release the essay in that surprise when it was released wise to end the abusive use of Church manner? taxes.” The first problem is that Vatican dedicated partisan, Andrea Tornielli, to When a German cardinal says that about communications have proven dishonest, to provide “editorial direction” to all Vatican the German bishops’ news service, it is Benedict’s own particular pain. It was just communications. This was followed by the safe to conclude that it would be foolish to 13 months ago that the then chief of Vati- resignation of the papal spokesman, address the universal Church through the can communications, Mgr Dario Viganò Gregory Burke, and his deputy, Paloma medium of the German Catholic media. (no relation to Archbishop Carlo Maria García Ovejero. More recently, the entire And Benedict is no fool. Viganò) misled the Vatican press corps editorial staff of the Women Church World Why did Benedict employ the means about a letter of Benedict, complete with a supplement of L’Osservatore Romano that he did to release his essay? Because he doctored photo of the letter. Viganò was resigned. Those who work inside Vatican knows that neither those in Rome nor in spinning a tale about Benedict praising the communications lack confidence in it; it Germany are trustworthy. theological sophistication of Pope Francis, would be rather much to ask Benedict to which he had declined to do. trust it. Fr Raymond J de Souza isa priestof Viganò resigned after his mendacities Given that Pope Francis considered the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario, were revealed but Pope Francis doctoring a text by Pope Emeritus and editor-in-chief of convivium.ca

, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 19 Agony Priest

FR GEORGE RUTLER

“… one often has to choose between feeling a damned fool and being one” — GK Chesterton

Dear Father Rutler, For years I’ve felt a deep devotion to the Mother of Sorrows and the dolorous My family is mostly Protestant, and they aspect of Catholic spirituality. However, obviously don’t cross themselves before it can become extremely oppressive – praying, say “debtors” instead of “tres- especially during Holy Week. Is there passers” during the Lord’s Prayer, and such a thing as feeling too much sorrow so on. I never know what to do when for our sins? we’re together. Would it be ostentatious Michael D from Boston, MA for me to do things the Catholic way? Does God mind if I ask him to forgive Presumption and despair are two sides of my debts instead of my trespasses? the same coin of pride. Christianity is Martina V from Houston, TX useless without the Cross but it is senseless with nothing but the Cross. Our Lord fell I am not glad that you asked this, because under the Cross three times, but he also got it provokes the pedant in me. We could up three times. That is what saves martyr- look at the Greek since, as early as the 3rd dom from masochism. As St Paul wrote to century in Egypt, Origen used paraptoma the Church in Corinth, “…forgive him, and which means trespasses, and yet Augustine comfort him, lest perhaps such a one in Hippo, who opted for Latin since his should be swallowed up with overmuch Greek was shaky at best, found signifi- sorrow” (2 Corinthians 2:7). cance in debita as a reference to Jesus speaking about paying “the utmost My fiancée’s father is an Episcopal farthing”. But that does not prove much priest. He refers to himself as “Fr So- since our Lord spoke it first in Aramaic, a and-so”; I don’t feel comfortable using language I approach with caution, espe- that title for him, but I also don’t want cially its daunting plural forms and to refer to him as “Mr So-and-so”. He’s subjunctives. Jerome, who gave us the a very prim man and probably won’t Vulgate, used both peccata (sins) and Can we dwell too much on the invite me to call him by his first name delicta (offences). There should be no dolorous side of Catholic spirituality? anytime soon. What should I do? Catholic-Protestant tension here: Wycliffe Name and address withheld (1359) uses “sins” and “trespasses”, oblate of the [redacted] order as a terti- Tyndale (1526) and the 1549 Book of ary/oblate and was ordained a perma- If your prospective father-in-law, while not Common Prayer use “trespasses”, while nent deacon. He spends all his time a Catholic priest (cf Apostolice Curae of the King James Bible (1611) has going to Mass, praying, volunteering... 1896 and Ad Tuendam Fidem of 1998), “debtors”. Your Protestant friends are He’s a very holy man, but we have five requires that his prospective daughter-in closer to the Latin Rite by saying “debts” kids, and I need him around the house! law address him as “Father”, he may be (peccata). Ronald Knox is invariably Is that selfish of me? insecure. Perhaps your fiancé’s father is precise, but he uses “trespasses” probably Name and address withheld prim in compensation for the fact that his by familiarity with both the Book of clerical lineage is rooted in the loins of a Common Prayer and the Douai Bible. Midlife crises can be worse for males of priapic Tudor king. So, it is really no big deal, though the species than for females, since men do I hope there is a prospect of a happy “debts” emphasises sin as a moral obliga- not expect their own kind of menopause. marriage, but if your fiancé is the sort of tion while trespassing stresses crossing a Your husband’s faith may see him through man who would make a good husband, he moral line. Going back to a Jewish source, this, if such is his problem, but if he should ask his father respectfully to stop Ira Gershwin: “You like tomato and I like ardently reads Sacred Writ, he should acting like an asinus asinorum. “Therefore tomahto… but if we ever part, that might recall the advice of St Paul to the eager shall a man leave his father and his mother, break my heart.” So let your Protestant clergyman Timothy: “For if a man know and shall cleave unto his wife: and they relatives keep the Catholic usage, while as not how to rule his own house, how shall shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24 KJV). a good Catholic you may pray the way the he take care of the church of God?” If he Protestant Tyndale did. retorts that the Apostle said women should FrGeorgeRutleris the pastorof keep silent (1 Corinthians 14:34), that only St Michael’s Church in New York City. I think my husband is going through applies to conduct in church. Freely preach To seek his advice, write to his midlife crisis. He became a tertiary/ to him at home. [email protected]

, 20 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 TIM STANLEY Biden, Buttigieg and the modern Church

ete Buttigieg, the Democratic presi- dential candidate and flavour of the month, offers America “generational leadership”P – and I’m finally old enough to understand what that means. I’m 36, he’s 37 and he’s one of the first politicians I can identify my own life with, including the fact that he got into God at university. Me at Cambridge; Pete as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. But while I gravitated towards Catholicism, he wound up an Episcopalian, despite being the son of a Maltese immi- grant, baptised Catholic, a pupil at a Catholic high school and scion of a Y famously Catholic town, South Bend. T T E

The contrast with Joe Biden is fascinat- G ing. Joe embodies the Vatican II generation of Catholic Democrat. Born into a mostly Both Biden and Buttigieg were baptised Catholics, but their paths have diverged Irish family in the northeast; evolved left- wards on gay rights and abortion; probably more compelling challenge is how the Some people get off on (or are even paid a bit embarrassed by parts of the Cate- Church speaks to a generation raised in the for) having controversial opinions, and will chism; but has stuck with the faith never- cultural landscape shaped by liberals like peddle any old nonsense to get five theless because he is devout and the Mr Biden. How do we address people who minutes of fame. Maybe they believe this Church is family. Biden admires Pope ought to be with us but now regard the rubbish, maybe they don’t – it really does- Francis and you can guess why. Both men private lives they have built for themselves n’t matter because the key thing to remem- represent the Sixties’ emphasis upon the in this liberal social order as non-nego- ber is that almost no one else thinks this social gospel, moving towards something tiable? way. But the media (as with fake news) more explicitly egalitarian that speaks to an I’m not sure I have an answer, but picks up the fake view because they think audience beyond the Church. what’s obvious is that the Vatican II gener- it’ll get audiences and clicks, and thus they But what are the fruits for the Church ation’s downplaying of social conservatism turn a nothing-burger into a major story by itself? Well, turnout on a Sunday isn’t and stress upon socialism hasn’t made the the magic of over-exposure. The major strong and politicians like Joe Biden slightest bit of difference. On the contrary, outlet for this in the UK is Good Morning publicly contradict Catholic teaching with growth seems to be where there is witness, Britain with Piers Morgan, which regularly near-impunity – and then there’s the bleed- authority and beauty. I note that Mayor features people debating opinions held by a ing away of the future generation. Let’s Pete said in an interview “if there’s going minority of one, such as a member of the face it: not only should Pete Buttigieg be a to be music, I want an organ, not a guitar” - Scottish parliament who said Churchill Catholic for his own benefit but we also so he sounds pretty ripe for conversion was a “white supremacist ... mass need men of his qualities. Aside from to me. murderer”. The show’s list of hot topics is being well-educated and articulate, he did a heartbreaking in its inanity: is Fireman tour with the military and put his life on the was incredibly saddened by the tragedies Sam sexist? Should cyclists have number line of his country; things that cannot be in Paris and Sri Lanka - and then plates? Should bird feeders be banned? said for Donald Trump. Imaddened by some of the responses to If these subjects come up when I’m on a He’s also gay. And married. How his them. A few said Notre Dame is a symbol TV panel, I’ll sometimes say: “I don’t sexuality might have shaped his attitude of Christian oppression so let’s not mourn know” or “I don’t care”. It’s a revolution- towards Catholicism is unclear, but liberals it. One numpty said “don’t send your ary response that generates a mix of like Mr Biden would probably argue that prayers” following the Sri Lankan killings laughter and panic in the studio, but my so long as the Church sticks to its ancient because he claims he saw Christian fellow pundits need to start taking a stand. moral teachings, the more it’ll alienate missionaries converting Buddhist orphans You don’t have to answer silly questions; people of ability like Mr Buttigieg. Change for food and shelter after the Indian Ocean you don’t have to turn a fake view into a or die! But it’s obvious, 50-odd years after tsunami. I won’t name names because talking point. Given the enormity of the Vatican II, that these beliefs are not up for that’s precisely what they want. problems facing our poor old planet, negotiation (just ask Pope Francis, who You’ve heard all about “fake news”? I think we owe it to the public to elevate remains utterly orthodox) so the bigger, Well, I call this phenomenon “fake views”. the conversation.

, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 21 Feature Enjoying the papacy Leo X almost bankrupted the Vatican, but as an artistic patron he was a genius

STEPHEN WITHNELL

ope Julius II, the “Warrior Pope”, was the most successful – and fortunate – artistic patron of the High Renaissance inP Rome. But we cannot fully appreciate him without also considering his successor, Pope Leo X. These two popes were a double act. Julius may have been the patron of the masterworks of the age, but Leo was the true connoisseur. The sins of Leo X are many. The conse- quences of his reckless and extravagant reign are infamous. He bears a heavy personal responsibility for the unfolding of the Protes- tant Reformation. I have no intention of chal- lenging the verdict of history. But I think it’s nevertheless important to recognise Leo’s cultural achievements. The High Renaissance in Rome reached its artistic culmination and fulfilment under him. It was during Leo’s reign that the collabo- ration between the arts and humanist scholar- ship reached its peak. Artistic genius was paired with learned advice with a frequency and effectiveness unseen previously. This did not happen in the same way or to the same extent as under Julius. These ambitious and dazzling collaborations between intellectual scholarship, artistic talent and patronage were not inevitable. Leo was born Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the Republic of Florence. While Julius was a warrior-states- Raphael’s Portrait of Leo X with Two Cardinals man with an intuitive approach to artistic patronage, Leo was a highly educated and St Peter’s, he vastly expanded his notorious humanist “learned adviser” in Fra Giovanni sophisticated prince. He valued art for art’s programme for the sale of indulgences and Giocondo. Raphael was grateful for this. In a sake, read Latin and Greek, composed music heaped fuel on the fires within Christendom similar vein, when Raphael wished to read and actively participated in the arts of his which ultimately led to the Protestant the 1st-century architect Vitruvius, the time. The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt Reformation. humanist scholars Andrea Fulvio and Fabio wrote that while Julius “understood the Many of the collaborations which defined Calvo were asked to translate it for him. importance of finding poets to eulogise him the arts under Leo were his direct doing. They The immensely ambitious Villa Madama … the enjoyment of elegant Latin prose and were significant because humanists were very on Monte Mario is a case study in the collab- melodious verse was part of the programme rarely artists and artists were very rarely oration of patronage, humanism and the of Leo’s life”. humanists. Why? Because humanists were visual arts. Raphael’s concerns as an artist are Leo was also a spendthrift and a glutton. highly educated scholars with years of those of Vitruvius and Pliny – for orientation, His love of luxury and excess is summed up academic training. Roman humanism was a for separation of public and private spaces perfectly in his oft-quoted remark: “Since particular intellectual movement devoted to and for views. Giovanni da Udine’s beautiful God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.” the studia humanitatis – the literary, historical Garden Loggia is decorated with a scheme He reputed to have said this to his brother, and moral studies which developed from from tales from Ovid. In the Villa Madama Giuliano, after his election to the papacy in renewed interest in Antiquity, its writings and we see a culmination of the High Renaissance 1513. Giorgio Vasari called Julius II “magnif- its civilisation. Knowing a bit about the clas- understanding of the Antique – extravagant icent”. He settled on “munificent” for Leo. sics and the liberal arts or being a man of yet delicate ornament, rich use of colour, and Whereas Julius restored the papal finances, culture and of the world didn’t make you a expensive and varied materials. Rome may Leo X practically bankrupted the papacy. humanist (and it still doesn’t). have rediscovered the plan and form of good Much of the territory won by Julius was lost Leo knew that artists and scholars needed architecture under Julius, but it was Leonine by Leo. Rather than change course, he each other. For Raphael’s commission to Rome which added back the light, colour and pawned papal plate and then, to fund the new rebuild St Peter’s, Leo paired Raphael with a ornament.

, 22 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 When Raphael painted The School of Catholic Herald magazine app Athens in theVatican’s Stanza della Segnatura for Julius II, there was no Greek 51 issues for only $21.99 printing houseor languageschool in Rome. Julius commissioned the masterwork, but it Published everyThursday.Go to yourapp store. was under Leo that a Greek school and Hurrybefore new prices start in Easter printing press was finally established in the city to givesubstanceto theart. Herevived Rome’s university, the Sapienza, founded chairs in Greek and Hebrew and appointed nearly a hundred professors. erritorial losses, financial pressures and political crises all contributed to a loss ofT confidence early on during Leo’s reign. He was a weak politician and a waverer. He either did not understand or could not act as the times required. Just a year after Leo’s election, he enlisted Raphael and his school to support a papacy threatened on multiple fronts. Theworld had changedin less than fiveyears. The School of Athens is a positive and optimistic painting with an ambitious catholicheraldUS.com agenda for the future. It is flooded with light. Raphael’s paintings for Leo are quite differ- A detail from The Fire in the Borgo ent. In The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila in theStanza d’Eliodoro, Leois cast as nated Bible, a looking glass and a gilded bell thepopewho can (becauseheneedsto) save for summoning servants. Leo seems as if he the Church from existential threat. In The has been disturbed, and gazes towards some- Tangney Tours Fire in the Borgo in the Stanza dell’Incendio oneoutsideof thecomposition. Lourdes Pilgrimages Leo is depicted as the man who can take Leo and his court had hoped his reign Lourdes $   command of a situation of elemental danger. would achieve – or simply enjoy – a Pax 2) April !ights !"# %&'(()!"#$%&' $(() The contrast between Raphael’s 1511- Medica; helikedtheideaof theMedicias 1512 portrait of Julius II and his portrait of healers but didn’t do much to bring this " !   ! Leo X is also instructive. Julius and Leo are about except identifying the witty pun. He " #$% & 'ights From £(49 pp both seated, depicted from the waist up, was an extravagant Renaissance prince wearing the fur-trimmed cape and velvet hat when the Church needed a steady Successor May " Nights From £! 9pp of their office. The similarities, however, end to the Prince of the Apostles. It needed there. The portrait of Julius is charged with pastoral careratherthan patronal flair. What #$ %&% ' Night( From £!)9pp an almost terrifying latent energy. It depicts good wecan credithis papacy can beseenin thepopesitting alonein deepthought his artistic patronageand in thecollabora- Coach Pilgrimages - Lourdes following his loss of Bologna in 1511. The tions between humanists and artists which !"#$ %& $(! )## $ % weight of the world is on his shoulders; his he both understood and effected. This left hand grips the chair. He wears the beard synthesis was carried forward from Julius to 1 to  A  #$ - from £225 he vowed not to shave until he recaptured culmination, fulfilment and fall under Leo. Fatima Pilgrimages - from £580 thecity. Theroom is barebut at thesame time filled with his presence. Julius looks Stephen Withnell is a DPhil student in archi- "# $ %&' ( ) "  within himself with fiery intensity. tectural history at Campion Hall, Oxford,  "#  ' ( ) "  Raphael presents Leo as plump and director of strategy at Stonyhurst College "#  " ( ) "  freshly shaved, and flanked by relatives. He and a governor of Westminster Cathedral Lourdes, Burgos, Santiago & Fatima sits at a desk with a jewel-encrusted, illumi- Choir School  "   " ( ! ) "  Rome " %&' !  " ( !#"  ) " JOE WALSH TOURS Holy Land SHRINES OF ITALY  %&'   " ( ## ) "  Visit our website for all our tours from £ PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI Join

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, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 23 SOHRAB AHMARI Sri Lanka’s cross – and ours

e who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me,” but “he who loses his life for my ‘Hsake will find it” (Matthew 10:38-9). By that stark measure of discipleship, Sri Lanka’s slaughtered Christians have amply proved themselves. On Sunday, they filled their churches in Colombo to greet the Risen Jesus only to fall victim to Islamist savagery. The Christians of Sri Lanka lost their lives for the sake of the Lord – simply, beautifully, radically – and even now their wounds are glorified like his. The question the Sri Lanka massacre, and others like it in places such as Egypt, Nigeria and Iraq, pose to Christians in the West is: what have we sacrificed for the faith lately? What have we suffered for the S N

suffering God? C A friend of mine likes to say that “there are no Styrofoam crosses”. If you’re Clergy and police view the bomb damage at St Sebastian’s in Negombo, Sri Lanka handed a real cross, you will recognise it by the heavy weight, by the pieces of wood tor who welcomes Catholicism – provided Here’s what the cardinal actually said: that splinter off and prick your hands as it’s the bashful, mumbling faith of a Cardi- “It’s very unfortunate language. Let’s you try to carry it. nal Joseph Tobin. Pressed recently by a hope that eventually that language is a The Bible and the saints assure us that Today programme presenter to explain the little less hurtful.” any such cross, borne gladly, can be a Church’s position on human sexuality, the Much, much less was being asked of source of sanctification: the sudden and cardinal shied away and, more than that, he the Cardinal Archbishop of Newark than serious bout of illness, the demands of effectively dismissed the Catechism and is daily asked of Christians in the Sri caring for parents in senescence, the thus the biblical, patristic and philosophical Lankas of the world. If he gave her the inevitable sacrifices that come with raising heritage on which that magnificent docu- “wrong” answer, the Today interviewer children. ment rests. wouldn’t have beheaded the cardinal or We Christians in the developed world “How can you welcome people that you dispatched a suicide bomber to his must wonder, however, if there are collec- call ‘intrinsically disordered?’ ” the inter- chancery. The worst that could have tive crosses that we have so far shirked, viewer asked. befallen him for proclaiming the especially those of us well placed to Church’s moral absolutes were a bit of proclaim Christ crucified in our re-pagan- What have we sacrificed for awkwardness and the scorn of those who ised societies. Islamist violence stalks scorn the Church anyway. Western homelands, to be sure, but our thefaithlately?Whathavewe Catholics prepared to forgive the cardi- insecurity isn’t systematic. We don’t reside suffered for the suffering God? nal might wonder: how far is the distance in “ungoverned spaces” like our brethren from Tobin’s brand of Christianity to the across swathes of Africa do. Nor in lands disembodied, “symbolic” Christianity of where the security forces are indifferent to “Well, I don’t call them ‘intrinsically Serene Jones, the Union Theological threats to our physical security (Egypt, for disordered,’ ” Tobin answered. Seminary president who recently told the example) or too incompetent to fend them Now, here was the cardinal’s opening to New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof that off (Sri Lanka, apparently). add: “And nor does the Catechism of the she doesn’t believe in bodily resurrection, Even so, as Matthew Schmitz has written Catholic Church!” He could have gone on the virgin birth and hell. Or how far is the in these pages, the Christian faithful face to explain the natural law basis of the distance from Newark to Colombo’s persecution in Western democracies. It Church’s teaching. How often does a Today simple, bloodstained faith? targets our minds and consciences instead audience get to hear a prince of the Church of our bodies, the kind of persecution that propound the idea, pre-dating Christianity, Sohrab Ahmari is the op-ed editor of the our Lord said we should most fear that morality is written into human nature New York Post, a contributing editor of (Matthew 10:28). and therefore can be discerned by human the Catholic Herald and author of the Islamic marauders, after all, are an old, reason? Talk about an apostolic opportu- memoir From Fire, by Water (Ignatius open enemy. More insidious is the persecu- nity. Press)

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Clericalism and the I have a special reason for liturgical revolution LETTER OF THE WEEK being cheered to learn that GKChesterton played an impor- SIR – In his letter (April 12) tant part in Jack’s conversion. Jack Robbins criticises me for Make Confession available again For I too, in 1959, at the age of giving “prominence to undue 17, warmed to Chesterton. criticism of the reformed Mass”. SIR – I would like to endorse the comments made by Dr Holly Thanks to him I too wanted to Actually, a careful reading will Ordway (Letter, April 12) on the subject of the Confession crisis. become a Catholic. Here was a show that most criticism was of I now live in Antwerp, Belgium, where, due to a shortage of thinking man of the 20th century the process of the reform made priests and perhaps lack of penitents, Confession is normally avail- who had discovered Christ and by those involved in it, or by able only on request. Until two years ago the cathedral only pro- His Church, and with wit and Council Fathers, rather than of vided Confession during Holy Week, but now it offers it most panache assailed anti-Christian the Mass itself. My own “undue weekdays for 30 minutes before the 4pm Mass. Regular scheduled progressivism. Already fashion- criticism” can only be in daring Confession is only available in St James’s Church every Saturday able in his day, the latter was to question whether the new for two hours – in Dutch, English and French. rampant in the 1950s and it Mass, as received and cele- In a cathedral with so many visitors it should be possible to offer remains so in our own time. brated, measures up to what the Confession in multiple languages each day, and hope to attract Unlike Jack, however, I did Council mandated of any liturgi- those visitors who are inspired by what they have seen. However, not at 17 have the courage to cal reform in its name. with only three priests in the cathedral they lack time and resources do what I knew I ought to do. However, I do appreciate Mr for this. A university chaplain, an Robbins’s closing exhortation The situation in the US is much better. In Chicago, St Peter’s in Anglican, of whom I was in that “priests and people [concen- the Loop provides Confession 10 hours per weekday and four awe, persuaded me that it was trate] on celebrating the current hours on Saturdays. People just drop in and know they can speak “not necessary” for a Christian Form of Holy Mass in a truly sa- with a priest. This is just a dream in most European countries. to be a Catholic. Lazily I ac- cred, dignified, reverent and It seems strange to see how many people go to Communion on cepted his advice. Only 30 beautiful manner”. Presuming he Sunday in Antwerp and yet are unlikely to have been to a recent years later did I see that ‘‘it” means the Ordinary Form (as the Confession due to lack of availability. was indeed necessary. Then at Extraordinary Form is also “cur- Eamon McAleavey last I acted accordingly. rent”), I can only agree; and he Antwerp, Belgium With Easter joy we congratu- may, perhaps, be heartened to late Jack. know that this is exactly what I David Jowitt try to do, as do many others I SIR – In the aftermath of this some issues first raised by Jos, Nigeria know. If only priests and people terrible fire and the deep distress St Thomas Aquinas in his had more universally and consis- it has caused, one can only hope Summa Theologiae. Pugin’s vision tently tried to do this from the that people will recognise that it It is not only hell that we outset, rather than so many using was the Catholic Faith that held should be concerned about when SIR – The caption to your photo- the 1969 missal as a mere tem- Europe together, and that this one considers that many of us (if graph of the sanctuary of Pugin’s plate for their own idiosyncratic tragedy may bring many back, we are lucky) are likely to spend church, St Thomas of Canter- creations, not a few of which I especially in France, eldest a very long time in purgatory. bury (Image of the Week, April was subjected to in my youth, daughter of the Church. For example, at Fatima, Our 12), gives a rather misleading then we might not need to be Sue Mawson Lady was asked by Lucia about and incomplete picture of the raising so many questions about Gurnard, Isle of Wight, England the fate of two girls from the architect’s taste and abilities. Paul VI’s missal now. village who had recently died. The church is certainly not Mindful of how many priests Life in purgatory One of the girls, Amelia, had “complete”: the sanctuary’s pres- did, and still do, change elements died aged around 18 or 19. Our ent furnishings are modernistic, of the Mass according to their SIR – Stephen A Clark (Letter, Lady told Lucia that Amelia utilitarian and poverty-stricken own lights, I can only wonder if April 5) has done an excellent “will be in purgatory until the and must bear little relation to the Church’s current bête noire, job in summarising the very end of the world”. A sobering Pugin’s original designs. clericalism, has been fully and long and detailed pamphlet “A thought for everyone. Pugin’s patroness forbade him accurately identified. Soul in Hell” which was granted Michael Hernon to build one of his favourite in- Fr Hugh Somerville Knapman OSB the imprimatur which guaran- Sutton Cold(eld, England stallations, a rood screen, and St Elizabeth’s, tees that the text is free from ordered the removal of the one Scarisbrick, Lancashire, England doctrinal error. My 30-year wait he had (disobediently!) begun As the New Testament alone to install. Poor Parisians contains more than 20 references SIR – It was a pleasure to read The church was damaged in to the eternal torments of hell, it the article by Jack Payne (Diary, the Second World War, and the SIR – It is reported that would be very foolish and sinful April 19), and to know that in East Window is obviously a later “hundreds of millions” have to deny that hell exists. spite of the current agonies our replacement. But were Pugin’s been donated for the restoration Having said that, I have an Catholic Church is passing altar, tabernacle and other sanc- of Notre-Dame. It is a good thing open mind on the authenticity through, in spite of the internal tuary furnishings destroyed by there are no poor Parisians who of the pamphlet (Letter, April conflicts that plague her, a enemy action? If not, what was need the money. 12) even though I have no British 17-year-old has this their fate? Do they still exist? Derek McMillan problem with its contents. I Easter confidently found in her Blaise Compton Durrington, West Sussex, England note, however, that it does cover his home. Welwyn Garden City, England

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A fresco to guide us through these dark times

Fra Angelico’s masterpiece tells us ‘Do not be afraid’, says Michele Bregande

n the first Easter morn- ing, Christ’s followers were mourning, and his despairingO Apostles hid in a locked room. The broken and bloodied corpse of Jesus had been laid in a tomb, and a heavy stone blocked its entrance. But faithful women had already awoken and had left for the tomb to finish anointing the body of Christ with oil and spices. When they arrived, the stone had been rolled away; they faced an empty tomb. This moment in the story of Christ’s Passion and Resurrec- tion is profoundly illuminating. Here we look at a fresco of the Resurrection that focuses more on that human experience than on Christ’s glory. Why? Like most of the stunningly beautiful frescoes in the 12th-century Convent of San Marco in Florence, Fra Angelico (with his apprentice Benozzo Gozzoli) created this fresco in a cell belonging to one individual monk in 1440-42. He painted a luminous fresco in every private cell at San Marco as a means for each monk to enter into deeper meditation and prayer. For his entire life, one man lived in his cell with one image – and what depth and mystery was unveiled over those years. Like the monk in his cell, we can reflect upon this singular Fra Angelico movingly shows the moment the women see that Jesus’s body is not there human moment that occurred after the Crucifixion, but before rendered so sweetly, with a soft hearts and souls likely feel as Christ, women were margin- knowledge of the Resurrection. flush on their cheeks, cherubic empty as the tomb. alised, expected to deal only We are drawn to these women lips, graceful hands. Their Who are these women? with matters of the home. Jesus in a very dark moment; their gowns with gently flowing Though there are different broke every rule by associating delicate brows are furrowed, folds are the only rich colours accounts in the Gospels as to with, healing, forgiving and their eyes either downcast or other than the red cross of the who was present, what’s most including women in his midst. teary, and one woman leans Trinity on Christ’s halo. They important is to recognise that Women wept at the foot of his over and searches deeply into have no understanding that the first visitors to the tomb Cross, and now women come the empty abyss. They are Christ has risen, and their were women. In the time of to the empty tomb. There they

, 28 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 are greeted by an angel who says: “Do not be afraid.” This is the second time that a JensFLaurson A musical miracle at Notre-Dame woman in the life of Christ is greeted by an angel with those very words: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour evastation and disbelief was our with God. And behold, you will conceive response when we watched the in your womb and bear a son, and you shall Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame de call his name Jesus.” DParis ablaze, shorn of its collapsed spire Do not be afraid! The first time the angel and hungry flames consuming the roof of God spoke those words was when Mary and truss. Because I am wired a certain said “Yes” to become the mother of the way, my immediate thoughts went to Son of God. With her fiat, she became the Notre-Dame’s 1868 organ, a master- perfect model of the feminine gift of recep- piece of romantic organ-building and, tivity. Her empty womb fills with life – not alongside his instrument at Paris’s Saint- just any life, but with the redemptive Sulpice, the crowning glory of its Christ. Now, while the women approach builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll’s career. the empty tomb with fear and confusion, Almost miraculously, the 8,000-plus the angel of God again speaks these words: pipe instrument has survived, damaged “Do not be afraid.” He points one finger neither by fire nor water. into the dark tomb, and the other toward Notre-Dame is a cradle of Western the risen Christ, whose light and glory the church music, with the likes of Léonin women still do not see. But they under- (c1150 – c1201) and Pérotin (c1200) stand; from out of the dark tomb, Jesus has establishing the Notre-Dame school of again come into the world as new life. polyphony. With their names having By design, women are life-bearers. been passed on to posterity, “they mark Regardless of whether a woman bears a the earliest transition where composers child, human lives are entrusted to her care. stepped out of anonymity to become artist-individuals”, according to the music journalist Bernhard Neuhoff. When we experience darkness, But Notre-Dame is just as associated

with music written for and on its organ – Y T think back to this image of the T specifically the romantic organ school E women at the empty tomb that centered around the Cavaillé-Coll G instrument that replaced the medieval The 8,000-pipe organ at Notre-Dame Friedrich Schambantz instrument somehow survived the fire unscathed By her very nature she is created to be (1403–1730) and its classical François receptive to others in body, mind, and Thierry successor (1730–1838). Bach on the smart La Dolce Volta label. spirit; and she is created to bear life – Perhaps no composer’s music is more Bach is not a natural composer for a whether by carrying a baby, or bearing closely associated with that organ than grand romantic French instrument other life-giving fruits for the world. that of Louis Vierne, titular organist at which has as much to do with Bach’s Women are receptive to carrying other Notre-Dame from 1900 until 1937 – organs as a spit-roast with a microwave. people’s needs, sorrows, and joys. The not the least because he died on the But Latry performs these “key works of feminine gifts of sensitivity and generosity console’s bench, performing on his Protestantism in one of the most bring women back to the tomb to minister beloved organ. Three days later his emblematic centres of Catholicism” to the body of Christ. Their understanding funeral was held at Notre-Dame – the without smudging the polyphony that that there can be life even within the most organ, covered in black, remained quiet gives Bach its super-added quality, hidden depths, and that emptiness can be throughout. Curiously, there are exceed- despite a whopping seven seconds filled with love and joy, suddenly makes it ingly few recordings of his many organ reverb at Notre-Dame. The way the clear: this empty tomb offered up new and works on “his” instrument – and his great Passacaglia BWV 582 slowly redeeming life. And they run to share this beautiful if introverted Messe Solennelle swells from the lowest depth is at once astounding news to the men. for two organs and choir was composed fascinatingly true to Bach’s music and That day began with darkness, emptiness for and premiered at Saint-Sulpice. reminiscent of the openings of and confusion. As we celebrate Easter, This is why we’ll look to one of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or recall that an empty tomb was the first sign Vierne’s successors as titular organist at Wagner’s Rheingold. When it rises to that Christ had risen. And perhaps, when Notre-Dame, Olivier Latry. He has full glory before the fugue, the effect is we experience darkness or emptiness in our recorded the complete organ works by one of breathtaking splendour. Bach to own body, mind or spirit, think back to this Messiaen on this instrument (Deutsche the Future is the last sound-document of image of the women at the empty tomb. Grammophon); a disc celebrating his that magnificent organ: hearing it will Even the darkest abyss holds a promise of composer-organist predecessors at give gladness that the instrument still new life, our own emptiness can be filled Notre-Dame: Daquin, Balbastre, stands – even if it shall take a decade or with grace, and with death comes eternal Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Vierne and two to ring out again in all its glory. life – as promised by the glorious Resurrec- Cochereau (Naïve, out of print); a disc tion of Christ. of transcriptions (Midnight at Notre Jens F Laurson is a classical critic- Dame, also DG); and most recently at-large Michele Bregande is an artist and former arts and museum educator

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Ahumanisingtaleofaking’sfivedaughters

This royal biography reveals a fascinating slice of medieval history, says Allan Massie

Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I

BY KELSEY WILSON-LEE, PICADOR, 346PP, £20/$25

o forget something you have to know it first. So, even for those of us with an interest in the Middle Ages and theT Plantagenets, describing Edward I’s daughters as “forgotten children” is stretch- ing it. Wilson-Lee’s book is not an exercise in recovered memory; I would guess that it breaks new ground for most readers. It does so very well – the author has worked diligently in the archives and read widely beyond them. We can probably take it that Edward I and his daughters: a rich subject for romantic novelists whatever there is to be known about the daughters who survived to adulthood is to extent as an intermediary, she was quite white greyhound “of such beauty” that be found here. The book will also serve as prepared to support her husband and defy her brother, Prince Edward, wrote to his a rich quarry for romantic novelists. her father. Gilbert’s death in 1295 left her a “beautiful sister” asking if he might The five daughters were Eleanora, rich and powerful widow, and she demon- borrow it to mate with his own grey bitch. Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. strated her independence of mind by There are many other such humanising Their father naturally regarded them as marrying a poor but handsome knight touches recorded by the author, who pieces in the game of political chess. without telling the king of her intentions. provides fascinating detail on clothes, Chess was a favourite game in the family – That she got away with this testifies to tapestries and jewels. the girls’ mother, Eleanor of Castile, her strength of character and also to the “borrowed a treatise on tactics so that it surprising indulgence Edward showed to he text is unavoidably bespattered with could be copied by her scribes” – yet the his daughters. This was in contrast to the “may haves”, “might haves” and girls were more than pawns. The choice of severity with which he treated his heir, T“must haves” – unavoidably so because a husband was a political act, but the girl’s Edward of Carnarvon (later the unfortunate there are no surviving memoirs. All that is consent was required. Edward II), and it says something for known is from archives and monastic Eleanora was long betrothed to the Joanna’s strength of character that she chronicles that were not always well king of Aragon, but political difficulties, intervened on her brother’s behalf. Joanna informed. When we are told that this consanguinity and the consequent need for is the one to be recommended to a novelist princess or that must have been delighted a papal dispensation led to long delays. in search of a medieval heroine. to visit her mother or meet her nephews Then her “proxy husband” died and she Only Mary remained unmarried. Indeed, and nieces, one can only say, “perhaps” or had to be content with marriage to the it was early on decided that she should be a “if you say so”. Norman-French was still Count of Bar, Edward’s ally against the nun, and she grew up in the convent at the language of the court, and we don’t king of France. They saw little of each Amesbury to which her grandmother, know how much English any of Edward’s other, for he was taken prisoner by the Eleanor of Provence, had retired. She does children spoke or even understood. It may French, and soon after Eleanora died, in not seem to have had any deep vocation. have been quite a lot, or it may not. 1298. Husbands were found for Margaret She proved a useful maiden aunt, always As I say, speculation is unavoidable. and Elizabeth in the strategically signifi- ready to look after her nephews and nieces, Nevertheless it’s pleasing to learn that cant Low Countries – Jan of Brabant for spent a lot of money on clothes and liked much more is known about these “forgot- Margaret, Johan of Holland for Elizabeth, gambling. Her father was often called upon ten children” than I at least had thought who would be married to the baron to make good her losses at dice. likely. So this is an informative book, also Humphrey de Bohun after her first Wilson-Lee gives us a picture of a a very enjoyable one. That said, it’s a pity husband’s early death. close-knit family, with its members visit- that Wilson-Lee identifies herself with her Joanna, the second oldest of the girls, ing each other regularly, and travelling in Plantagenets so far as to call William remained in England, married to the great great style. Certainly this generation of Wallace a “rebel”. Moreover, she is wrong Marcher lord, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Plantagenets seems to have been very in suggesting that the Scottish army at Gloucester, a man of her father’s genera- different from Henry II’s rebellious and Bannockburn enjoyed a superiority in tion. He was frequently at odds with the vicious “Devil’s Brood” . They were all numbers to the English one. Still, these are king and, though Joanna acted to some fond of field sports and Elizabeth had a small and venial faults.

, 30 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 Recommended  100 Churches in 100 Years, by the Twentieth Century Society (Batsford, £25/$35)  Sir Christopher Wren, by Paul Rabbitts (Shire Publications, £9.99/$14)

Surviving Nazism with help from Bach Michael White on a musician’s triumph over totalitarianism

One Hundred Miracles

BY ZUZANA RUZICKOVA (WITH WENDY HOLDEN), BLOOMSBURY, 368PP, £18.99/$25

olocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (in every sense) familiar pattern, so you tend to know what’s comingH next. And it’s not usually a comfort read. But these are stories that demand persistent telling, if only to remind us of how fragile our collective claim to civilised society can be. And though One Hundred Miracles may not, as literature, rank high among the landmarks of the genre, it’s a worthwhile addition for anybody interested in music because it tells the story of the camps through the experience of a woman who survived them to become a world-class As she endured death camps, Zuzana Růžičková kept remembering a Bach melody keyboard player. Zuzana Růžičková, who died two years Judaism and a place where, after a fashion, particular a sarabande by Bach that ago at the age of 90, was a Czech harpsi- music and the arts flourished (at least Růžičková played repeatedly in her mind chordist who took up the instrument in when cameras were around), thanks to the like a talisman as the horrors unfolded. “It times when it was still an exotic pursuit; large numbers of educated, literate inmates didn’t weigh anything and the Nazis didn’t there were many people in many parts of who were “invited” –such was the termi- even know it was there. They couldn’t the world who barely knew what it nology – to go there. steal it from me and it was mine alone”. was, except as a museum piece. They weren’t only Jews: many homo- After the war, when she returned to A natural successor to Wanda sexuals were forced on to the “invitation” Prague to study music, Bach became the Landowska who, in the first half of the list. And one of the most moving moments centre of her life. But life in Czechoslova- 20th century, pioneered a somewhat in the book – which is a first-person narra- kia under the Soviets proved only margin- romanticised rediscovery of what the harp- tive pieced together from Růžičková’s ally better than in Terezín under the SS. sichord could do, Růžičková took a simi- talks and writings by the author Wendy As the narrative of this book cuts back larly free-spirited approach to its repertoire and forth between the respective miseries that was maybe old-fashioned by compari- These are stories that demand of the two regimes, the reader can only son with the “historically informed” wonder at the fighting spirit of this harpsi- expertise that rules in concert halls today. telling – if only to remind us how chordist (not a calling you might think But she was not without significance – especially heroic) as she struggles with especially in Eastern Europe, where she fragile civilised society can be what she describes as “a shy faith”. “I am a was confined by politics for much of her typical Jew,” she says, “always asking my performing life. And she won universal Holden – is an account of Fredy Hirsch, a God questions like ‘Why this? Why does it recognition as the first to record the entire gay man in Terezín (and later Auschwitz) have to be like this?’ ” And it’s interesting harpsichord output of JS Bach – an who organised a makeshift school for the that the closest she gets to an answer achievement that fed through to genera- child inmates and who was, for Růžičková, comes not from Judaism but from Bach the tions of younger players, including the “the spirit of morality in these camps. It Lutheran. “God is everywhere with him,” charismatic Mahan Esfahani, who went out was Fredy who taught us not to lie, cheat she says. “With Bach there is always to Prague to study with her and absorbed or steal in a place where people could be solace. He gives us something eternal that some measure of her maverick, anti- killed for a piece of bread or ladleful of surmounts being human. He gives us “historical” outlook. All of which is a fine soup … He was an ideological figure who grace.” and happy tale. kept us in another world, separate from the And for Růžičková, it’s the grace to see But behind it lay the fact that at the age horror, a place where humanity and her past not as a nightmare but as the of 13, Růžičková and her family were decency were still important.” one hundred miracles that give the book herded by the Nazis into concentration No less important, Fredy Hirsch kept her its name. “Bach’s music,” she declares camps. As Czech Jews, their first destina- alive as she too passed from Terezín to with an unchallengeable wisdom, “is order tion was Terezín (also known as Theresien- Auschwitz and then Bergen-Belsen – he in chaos. It is beauty in ugliness. I have stadt), the “model” camp presented to the was practical as well as inspirational. seen enough of both in my life to know world as Hitler’s benevolent gift to But music played a part too – in what I’m talking about.”

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St Paul VI’s other earth-shaking encyclical The pope’s call to evangelise haslostnoneofitsurgency, says Fr Denis Blackledge SJ

Sent to Proclaim the Gospels

BY JIM MCMANUSCS SR, REDEMPTORIST PUBLICATIONS, 164PP, £12.99/$15

ope Paul VI’s great encyclical on evan- gelisation, Evangelii Nuntiandi, written in 1975, was the spark for this book, Pwhich is timely, coming soon after his canonisation. In seven chapters, Fr Jim McManus spells out what the universal call to be an evange- liser means in today’s world. He uses a S

variety of resources culled from Vatican II N documents, and the writings of all the recent C Popes – from Paul VI to Francis. The keys In 1975, Paul VI appealed for evangelisers ‘whose lives glow with fervour’ which unlock the riches of this book are a couple of paragraphs from Evangelii in the rest of the book, asking where can we within each parish – which, as Pope Francis Nuntiandi: “Evangelising is in fact the grace get the motivation to become evangelisers, says, is called to be “an oasis of mercy” – and vocation proper to the Church, her deep- and using a seminal quote from John Paul II that evangelisation needs to be grounded. est identity. She exists to evangelise …” and as answer: “The burning desire to encounter Paul VI’s legacy is well and truly “May the world of our time, which is search- the One whom we have encountered is the explained in this clear and trenchant book, ing, sometimes with anguish, sometimes start of the evangelising mission to which the and the writer shows how the popes who with hope, be enabled to receive the Good whole Church is called.” This is the task of followed Paul VI have enhanced the News not from evangelisers who are every single member of the Church. message of each member of the Church as a dejected, discouraged, impatient or anxious, It is impossible to make Jesus known missionary disciple, called to become an but from ministers of the Gospel whose lives to others unless we grow daily into a ever better evangeliser in ordinary everyday glow with fervour.” deeper relationship with Him ourselves living – a message that is both urgent and The author teases out these two quotations as individuals called by Christ. But it is opportune.

take, and eventually we break.” He quotes This pastor preaches to the homeless, the A gift for Catholics the Gospel: “Come to me, all you who are hungry, to people suffering from noisy weary and burdened, and I will give you neighbours and to those who are burdened under the hammer rest.” (Matthew 11: 28.) He furthers his by child care or over-work. argument by turning to St John’s Gospel: In these days of social media sites that Alexander Jolliffe onacleric’s “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to encourage self-harm and even suicide, you;” (John 14: 27) Fr Ritaccio urges young people to resist the wise advice for the overworked Chronic stress can cause headaches, Devil. He writes: “Suicide presents itself as stomach problems, heart disease, high a diabolical lie. It cannot provide relief blood pressure and even cancer. The strain because our existence does not end with Finding God in Times of Stress on our minds can trigger anxiety and death – our souls are immortal.” depression. Even if you do not suffer such Other topics he deals with include the BY FR ANTONIO RITACCIO, CTS, £2.95 ($3.85) conditions, be a faithful friend to those pursuit of money, the need for affection who fall prey to mental health problems, and emotional security, as well as letting o you struggle to hit targets and says Fr Ritaccio. go of regrets. Forgiveness, meditation, deadlines? If so, read this book. Does God care, the priest asks. He breathing exercises and prayer for release Fr Ritaccio, a priest of the Diocese responds robustly: “Yes!” He writes: from strains are all covered in depth. Dof Westminster in central London, says: “As he [Jesus] hung upon the Cross, dying The author also includes a fine list of “We each have only a limited amount of in agony, we know that he has found us Catholic and non-Catholic resources such energy with which to deal with stress. because our cries of pain became his cry as websites and charities. This book would Like a tree bending in a storm, we all have as he said: ‘My God, my God, why hast make a fine present for godchildren, a limit as to how much pressure we can thou forsaken me?’ ” friends and relatives.

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e Word this Week Bishop David McGough

Second Sunday of Easter Acts 5:12-16; Rev 1:9-13 & 17-19; John 20:19-31 (Year C) he Gospels conclude with the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday. This is scarcely the end of the Tstory. The Acts of the Apostles, together with the letters of the New Testament, take up the narrative of Christ’s Risen Presence as the driving force of the early Church. Like those early Christians, we are challenged to acknowledge the Risen Christ at work in our congregations, to become living signs of his Resurrection. The Acts of the Apostles gave witness to Christ’s presence through the signs and wonders worked through the Apostles in the name of Jesus. “People even came crowding in from the towns round about Jerusalem, bringing with them their sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them The Apocalypse of St John the Evangelist on the Island of Patmos (1563), by Jan Massys were cured.” We cannot presume to emulate the wonders their turmoil into his peace. May our to their appointed vocations in their commu- worked by the Apostles but, in the Spirit of wounded Church be raised up in the same nity. “Working like bees with order and the Risen Lord, we must become healing healing and peace. “He said to them ‘Peace peace, men would learn to enjoy and have communities. Sadly, through sin and petty be with you.’ The disciples were filled with others enjoy the fruit of their labours, the divisions, we have frequently become joy. After saying this he breathed on them and honey and the wax, the sweetness and the wounded communities. Let us pray for the said. Receive the Holy Spirit. For those light in this life here below.” healing of the Risen Lord, for ourselves and whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven.” The bee was thought in ancient times to those we have harmed. reproduce parthenogenetically, without The Book of Revelation, in its first chapter, sexual congress. Hence, the bee’s virginity reminds us that the Risen Lord was at work in Omnium Gatherum made it a symbol of the Blessed Virgin. the suffering of the early Church. “My name Fr John Zuhlsdorf Speaking of Our Lady, three apiaries, is John, and, through our union with Jesus I home to some 180,000 bees, were founded am your brother and share your sufferings, on the roof of the sacristy of Notre-Dame, your kingdom and all that you endure.” the Blessed Virgin’s jewel in Paris. The These words were written from exile on the world’s bee population is both critically island of Patmos during the darkest days of ne blessing from the suppression of important for global plant life and our the Church’s earliest persecutions. At a time the old English translation of the human wellbeing. Alas, the bee population when suffering threatened to extinguish the Roman Missal and the introduction of is declining. Therefore, there is a push to very heart of faith, the Book of Revelation Othe new, was the return of the bees to the establish apiaries for colonies of bees even became a confident reassertion of the Risen Exsultet. The Exsultet, since the 9th century atop famous buildings. Christ in the midst of a suffering people. sung during the Easter Vigil, is a poem It was feared that the bees had perished by “Do not be afraid; it is I, the First and the packed with images, including of bees. the heat of the fire that ravaged Notre- Last; I am the Living One. I was dead, and Elements of the text go back to St Ambrose Dame’s roof and, providentially, crashed now I live forever.” of Milan (d 397). Did Ambrose contribute rubble down upon the free-standing In a different way the Church today is the bee imagery? When he was a baby, the modernist altar in the nave. Satellite images living through the darkest of times. With legend goes, bees flew in and out of his showed that the apiaries survived and bees humility let us surrender ourselves to the mouth, presaging his future eloquence. The have again been buzzing. In one photo, some presence of that same living Lord. He alone bees still buzzed in the Latin Exsultet text, of them are hunkered down in the crevice of has the power to lead us through all that has but the coarse sensibilities of the 60s and 70s a gargoyle. In moments of danger, bees died within us. eliminated them in English. Having mainly gorge on honey and surround their queen to The Gospel describes the appearance of the recovered from that madness, the 2011 protect her. Risen Lord to forlorn disciples. They had fled English version properly restored them. Pius XII was right to praise busy, selfless the darkness of Good Friday, prisoners of Bees, which provide the wax for the bees. Bees are good examples to us, who their own frailty and uncertainty. “In the Paschal candle, are symbols of purity and have vocations in the world and in the evening of that same day, the doors were industry. In 1948 Pius XII gave a lovely Church, which needs our industrious closed in the room where the disciples were, address to beekeepers. He spoke about the protection. for fear of the Jews.” lessons their little bewinged charges give to Christ alone had the power to transform mankind, including conscientious attention Visit fatherzonline.com

, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 33 Diary of a city priest the silence reveals the presence of the Lord. The crotalus, or rattle, rasps out the Angelus Mass readings Fr Dominic Allain at the end of Compline. A cry of love rejected, stricken, in the Good Friday Ordinary Form Divine Office Week II Reproaches, “My people what have I done to you?” Sunday, April 28: Second Sunday of he introit for Maundy Thursday, Nos Meals in the parlour, served with care by Easter autem gloriari, seems ages ago, yet it an extern sister who seems endlessly to Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118; Rev 1:9-11A, 12-13, still sounds in my ears, as does the attend to the demands of others with such 17-19; Jn 20:19-31 TChristus Factus Est and the Haec Dies and the patience. The faces of the community by the Monday, April 29: St Catherine of Easter Vesper hymn Ad coenam Agni providi. light of the Easter fire and the silhouettes of Siena If you could distil the essence of Easter joy the nuns in stalls in the choir with their Acts 4:23-31; Ps 2; Jn 3:1-8 into a chant, the latter would be it. Liturgists candles as I sing the Exultet. The processional Tuesday, April 30: St George tell us that the Triduum is actually one liturgi- chant Salve Festa Dies ebbing and flowing as (England); St Pius V (Wales) cal action, and it feels so in a monastic setting, the nuns process round the cloister on Easter Apoc 12:10-12; Ps 125; Jn 15:18-21 and, on this Easter Sunday, as though we have morning, blessing the various rooms in the Weekday of Easter (US) been on a journey and now we are home and monastery, the joyful melody growing Acts 4:32-37; Ps 93; Jn 3:7B-15 safe. In the course of that journey there have stronger as they move into the choir for the Wednesday, May 1: Weekday of Easter been places where I have wanted to pause, Mass of Easter Sunday. And Ite Missa est is or St Joseph the Worker and times when it has been sorrowful or sung and I am processing in my white robes Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34; Jn 3:16-21 tiring, but there has been an ineluctable through the cloister with the Blessed Sacra- Thursday, May 2: St Athanasius momentum which allows all stages to cohere ment in a ciborium, taking Easter Commun- Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34; Jn 3:31-36 in the joy of arrival and the sense of peace. ion to an elderly Sister terminally bedridden Friday, May 3: Ss Philip and James Only by arriving do I understand the full in the infirmary, a nun preceding me with a 1 Cor 15:1-8; Ps 19; Jn 14:6-14 import of what we have been celebrating and candle and ringing a bell. Saturday, May 4: The English Martyrs what the stages signify, so that I will be able The sunlight casts the outlines of the (E); weekday of Easter (W, US) to recognise them when they occur in the cloister windows’ tracery onto the tiled floor. Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33; Jn 6:16-21 pattern of my own life and have the faith and I hear a burst of birdsong from the cloister garden and then stillness and I hold the Real Extraordinary Form The candlelight, the lingering Presence to me and know that Christ is risen. Sunday, April 28: Low Sunday incense and the silence reveal Howto… 1 Jn 5:4-10; Jn 20:19-31 Monday, April 29: St George the presence ofthe Lord Celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday 2 Tim 2:8-3:12; Jn 15:1-7 Tuesday, April 30: St Catherine of courage to persevere. The Vesper hymn Siena explains that journey: with Christ as our 2 Cor 10:17-11:2; Mt 25:1-13 Pasch we have safely crossed the Red Sea. ivine Mercy Sunday was introduced Wednesday, May 1: St Joseph the I have again been privileged to celebrate by Pope St John Paul II in 2000 when Worker these holy days with the Benedictine commu- he canonised St Faustina Kowalska, Col 3:14-17, 23-4; Mt 13:54-58 nity of St Cecilia’s Abbey, Ryde, on the Isle of a Polish nun and visionary who received Thursday, May 2: St Athanasius D 2 Cor 4:5-14; Mt 10:23-28 Wight. The beauty of the liturgy, especially apparitions of Our Lord in the 1930s. It the chant, is a powerful aid to devotion. It is falls on the Second Sunday of Easter, a day Friday, May 3: Feria moving precisely because none of it is trying when the Gospels speak directly of the Readings ofSunday repeated to elicit an emotional response. Immense mercy of Jesus. Saturday, May 4: Holy English and effort goes into seeing that the liturgy is Many churches today hold special services Welsh Martyrs carried out beautifully but in way that is on Divine Mercy Sunday when, among a Heb 12:1-10; Jn 10:23-30 unselfconscious: ritual not performance. range of devotions, the image of Divine Compiled by the Latin Mass Society Christ is the focus, and the Divine Office Mercy is venerated. Jesus promised St gives him a voice in the psalms, both in his Faustina that on the feast “the very depths of suffering (“My heart is poured out like wax, I my tender mercy are open” and “the soul that Prayer of the week can count every one of my bones”) and his will go to Confession and receive Holy joy (‘‘Even my body shall rest in safety, for Communion shall obtain complete forgive- Father, I beseech You, direct the hearts you will not let your beloved know decay’’). ness of sins and punishment”. The Catholic and wills of the servants of Your Plainchant ensures that it is only ever the Church interprets the requirement to go to Bride, the Holy Church, unto yourself biblical word that emerges spectacularly, not Confession to be in proximity to the feast and so that they may follow the poor, some musical or poetic climax which is relied not necessarily on that same day. bleeding, humble and gentle Lamb of on for emotional impact. The Church also makes a plenary indul- God on the way of the Cross. Make From the intense experience of these days gence obtainable under usual conditions them angels in the shape of men; the following vignettes retain particular (Confession, Holy Communion and prayer for after all, they have to administer power. In the darkened church watching for the Pope) to a person who takes part in and distribute the Body and Blood of before the altar of repose the church is still the devotions in a church or chapel, or who Your Only Begotten Son! Amen. heavy with incense. I am aware of unseen expresses his or her devotion to the mercy of watchers in the monastic choir behind the Jesus before the Blessed Sacrament on – Prayer for priests grille. The light of the candles catches and Divine Mercy Sunday and recites the Our by St Catherine of Siena shows up the incense lingering in the air and Father and the Creed.

, 34 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019  Set by Alun Evans Prize crossword 0590

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Heretic of the week Rudolf Steiner

udolf Steiner (1861-1925) was born and write about various philosophies and re- much else. Echoing the TS-sponsored Lib- in Donji Kraljevec, now in Croatia ligions. Gradually evolving his own far- eral Catholic Church (LCC), the AS backs but then in the Hungarian half of the reaching system of everything (a favourite the Christian Community, which encom- Austro-HungarianR empire. His father was a habit of German-language philosophers), he passes Steiner’s idea of “true Christianity”; telegraph operator on the railroad, rising came to accept karma, reincarnation and unlike the LCC, it does not claim the through the ranks to become a station master. much else, which in 1902 led him to the Apostolic Succession. Thus, the family enjoyed a comfortable but Theosophical Society (TS). He became head But the most successful of Steiner’s ven- peripatetic existence. of its German-Austrian branch. tures by far has been the Waldorf Schools, Baptised and raised Catholic, young Steiner broke with the TS in 1912/13 and now found on every continent. While not Rudolf began to have mystical experiences formed his own Anthroposophical Society suitable for Catholics, it should be noted that from the age of nine. Sent to university in (AS), now a worldwide concern and head- they do – in keeping with Steiner’s love of Vienna, he studied philosophy and various quartered in Switzerland. It is hard to give an Western culture, if not the faith that created it sciences; one of his instructors was the apos- simple account of the AS’s teaching, ranging – centre their education around the liturgical tate priest Franz Brentano. Here he lost his as it does through all of Steiner’s interests in calendar in a way that puts us to shame. faith in the Church but afterwards continued education, medicine, the performing and to have mystical experiences and to study visual arts, social sciences, agriculture, and Charles Coulombe

, CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 35 Charterhouse GERALD RUSSELLO The man who launched a thousand libraries

he legendary Georgetown professor “If the human soul is not immortal – Fr James Schall SJ died peacefully that is, if nothing passes beyond this life – it last week, at the age of 91, follows that injustice and justice have the Tsurrounded by his family. He had retired in same results. Great crimes of injustice are 2012, after teaching for more than 30 years gotten away with and great examples of in Georgetown’s government department. courage or generosity are unrewarded. Despite serious health problems, the books If either of these results is the case, then and articles had continued to pour forth. the world is made in injustice. It is ration- I was privileged to know him as an ally incoherent. It was this frightening undergraduate, a writer and editor, and a alternative that Plato fought against, as correspondent. we also do.” His output was extraordinary: dozens of In another essay, Schall said: books and thousands of essays on the great “I mentioned that hell is a positive works and writers of the Western intellec- doctrine. How so? Each human person is tual tradition. His book, Another Sort of so important that anyone who seriously Learning, is a classic. Composed of short sins against Him (see the Commandments) chapters on topics such as “Why Read?”, at any moment or place, is, if unrepentant, “Oddness and Sanity” and “On the Seri- worthy of hell. Put positively, the reality of ousness of Sports”, each ends with a read- hell defines what our relation to each other ing list. Taken together, Schall’s lists of Despite losing the use of one eye, ought to be, something noble, yes, some- “books nowhere else in captivity to be Fr Schall maintained a prolific output thing sinless.” found”, as the subtitle has it, comprise a liberal education and helped form a authors and asides about Schall’s friends. or Schall, revelation and reason were thousand libraries. He often describes how he met them and separate but connected, and indeed only Schall’s books are a kind of skeleton what books they discussed or shared. byF acknowledging that connection could key to the entire Western tradition, from Although Schall was at heart an Aristote- the world be intelligible at all. At the limits Plato and Aristotle to Aquinas and Bene- lean Thomist, this emphasis on friends and of political philosophy (the title of another dict XVI. As he said in his last public how we discover the truth by talking with of his books), there lay something beyond lecture at Georgetown, “The Final Glad- one another about the highest things is a political philosophy itself, for political ness”: “Truth exists in conversation.” The Platonic dialogue for the present day. How philosophy cannot answer its own ques- great authors are talking with one another, we live matters to us, to those around us, tion: how can we live in the “best city”? and with us, to identify and understand and to God. The questions of devotion, As philosophy, it cannot exclude pertinent what Schall called the ground of all being. love, friendship and reverence which the information that may help it become more This is why he often had his classes read tradition has wrestled with matter still. of itself, and so, for Schall, this meant that the Greek philosophers on friendship – The most important question, ultimately, philosophy, properly understood, could not because making friends is one of the most is whether we are made for something exclude revelation. important things young people can do. beyond the world. For Schall, this is not But that revelation will always be Plato and Aristotle, among others, also only a philosophical question; it is also a consistent with reason; once we become knew that, and have things to say that still political one. In an essay titled “On the aware of that relationship, as he wrote in speak to us. Reasonableness of Hell”, Schall wrote: one of his last essays, “it becomes clear Sport and play was also a recurring topic that what it contained in revelation can for Schall, in part no doubt because athleti- incite reason to broaden its own under- cism and finding out what to do with one’s FROM THE ARCHIVES standing of reality. In other words, from free time is also a preoccupation of college the point of view of the philosopher, reve- students. In an essay for The University lation makes reason more itself – more Bookman, “On Play and Seriousness”, he Cardinal Basil Hume has begun to reasonable. It does this by considering how wrote: “The great thing about play, about honour his valiant pledge to work as a revelational teaching expands something games, is they need not exist, but do. They ‘much and as hard’ as he can in the not fully understood by reason itself.” This have existed as long as man has existed. wake of learning that he has advanced was one of the great insights Schall found What is so great about this aspect of play? and inoperable cancer. In his first in the work of Benedict XVI, for example, Again, I think that Aristotle had it right, an public duty since knowledge of his which he expanded on in a book exploring utterly unsurprising surprising thing, for terminal disease became public, the the Regensburg lecture. Aristotle saw so much. He had said that Cardinal celebrated Mass in Westmin- Schall spent his life explaining that the play was like the contemplation of what is, ster Cathedral ... [showing] barely any Logos – that is, Christ – contains both only it was not so serious.” Seriousness signs of serious illness, though he reason and revelation; indeed, it is the and playfulness, or joy, were not separate. appeared to wince nervously on his way fulfilment of both. So may the Logos, Schall’s books are all designed to “keep to the altar and his voice wavered which is not an abstraction but a Person, the perennial questions of philosophy slightly during the opening prayer. receive his good and faithful servant. before us with all their force”. They are ‘Above all no fuss’ written as a kind of conversation them- April 16, 1999 Gerald Russello is editor of selves, filled with quotations from the great The University Bookman

, 36 CATHOLIC HERALD APRIL 26 2019 Hexham & Newcastle Middlesbrough Lancaster OWRY OUR Leeds D T Liverpool HallamH Salford OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM Nottingham Shrewsbury East Anglialia www.dowrytour.org.uk Birmingham Northampton Brentwood Westminstereerr Clifton The Dowry Tour is part of the spiritual preparation for the rededication of England as the Dowry Southwark th Portsmouth Arundel & of Mary which will take place on the Sunday after the Solemnity of the Annunciation, 29 March PlPPlymouthlyly Brighton 2020 at 12.00 noon. The Dowry Tour is a unique time of grace helping us to seek God’s blessing in the work of the New Evangelisation. Each Tour consists of Mass, Confessions, Adoration, Eucharistic healing services, and powerful times of intercession together with an exhibition on England as the Dowry of Mary. At every Catholic Cathedral that we visit, and we have visited 13 to date, we call upon the intercession of Our Lady of Walsingham, the Saints and Martyrs of England and our own Patron Saints for the conversion of heart of the people of England, to be open once again to the ancient Catholic Faith, the faith of our fore fathers and mothers. In 1381 King Richard II dedicated England as Mary’s Dowry at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey, he “set aside” England as a gift to Our Lady, that she might be our guide and protector. The rededication, which has the support of our Bishops, is a personal offering where we are invited to reflect on the great mystery of the incarnation that was revealed to Our Lady at the Annunciation, and is simply presented in the Angelus Prayer which the Church asks us to pray each day. The Angelus Promise is a new prayer based on the Angelus which will be the heart of the re-dedication. Copies of the prayer can be obtained from the Tour Office on [email protected]. You are invited to take your part in the prayer to seek God’s will at this unique time in our history. We invite you to come to the Dowry Tour at one of the remaining Cathedrals and join in prayer for our nation. Full details are available on www.dowrytour.org.uk. “When England returns to Walsingham, Our Lady will return to England” Pope Leo XIII Date Location Date Location 21st - 23rd June 2018 Archdiocese of Liverpool 4th - 7th April 2019 Diocese of Portsmouth 19th - 21st July 2018 Diocese of Brentwood 16th - 18th May 2019 Diocese of Plymouth 11th - 13th October 2018 Belmont Abbey 20th - 22nd June 2019 Archdiocese of Birmingham 18th - 20th October 2018 Diocese of Salford 10th - 12th October 2019 Diocese of Nottingham 22nd - 24th November 2018 Diocese of Hallam 24th - 26th October 2019 Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle 29th Nov - 1st Dec 2018 Diocese of Shrewsbury 7th - 9th November 2019 Diocese of Leeds 13th - 15th December 2018 Diocese of Middlesbrough 28th - 30th November 2019 Diocese of Arundel & Brighton 7th - 9th February 2019 Diocese of Northampton 6th - 8th February 2020 Diocese of Lancaster 21st - 23rd February 2019 Archdiocese of Southwark 20th - 22nd February 2020 Diocese of Clifton 28th Feb - 2nd March 2019 Diocese of East Anglia 19th - 21st March 2020 Archdiocese of Westminster 28th - 30th March 2019 Personal Ordinariate of OLW Rededication - 29th March 2020 THE GUILD OF OUR LADY OF RANSOM THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND AND WALES - RESTORATION OF THE LAPSED - PRAYER FOR THE FORGOTTEN DEAD

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