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Why Vatican II Happened the Way It Did, and Who’S to Blame
SPECIAL EDITION SUMMER 2017 Dealing frankly with a messy pontificate, without going off the rails No accidents: why Vatican II happened the way it did, and who’s to blame Losing two under- appreciated traditionalists Bishops on immigration: why can’t we call them what they are? $8.00 Publisher’s Note The nasty personal remarks about Cardinal Burke in a new EDITORIAL OFFICE: book by a key papal advisor, Cardinal Maradiaga, follow a pattern PO Box 1209 of other taunts and putdowns of a sitting cardinal by significant Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877 cardinals like Wuerl and even Ouellette, who know that under [email protected] Pope Francis, foot-kissing is the norm. And everybody half- Your tax-deductible donations for the continu- alert knows that Burke is headed for Church oblivion—which ation of this magazine in print may be sent to is precisely what Wuerl threatened a couple of years ago when Catholic Media Apostolate at this address. he opined that “disloyal” cardinals can lose their red hats. This magazine exists to spotlight problems like this in the PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Church using the print medium of communication. We also Roger A. McCaffrey hope to present solutions, or at least cogent analysis, based upon traditional Catholic teaching and practice. Hence the stress in ASSOCIATE EDITORS: these pages on: Priscilla Smith McCaffrey • New papal blurtations, Church interference in politics, Steven Terenzio and novel practices unheard-of in Church history Original logo for The Traditionalist created by • Traditional Catholic life and beliefs, independent of AdServices of Hollywood, Florida. who is challenging these Can you help us with a donation? The magazine’s cover price SPECIAL THANKS TO: rorate-caeli.blogspot.com and lifesitenews.com is $8. -
Ave Papa Ave Papabile the Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage and Political Aspirations
FROM THE CENTRE FOR REFORMATION AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES Ave Papa Ave Papabile The Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage and Political Aspirations LILIAN H. ZIRPOLO In 1624 Pope Urban VIII appointed Marcello Sacchetti as depositary general and secret treasurer of the Apostolic Cham- ber, and Marcello’s brother, Giulio, bishop of Gravina. Urban later gave Marcello the lease on the alum mines of Tolfa and raised Giulio to the cardinalate. To assert their new power, the Sacchetti began commissioning works of art. Marcello discov- ered and promoted leading Baroque masters, such as Pietro da Cortona and Nicolas Poussin, while Giulio purchased works from previous generations. In the eighteenth century, Pope Benedict XIV bought the collection and housed it in Rome’s Capitoline Museum, where it is now a substantial portion of the museum’s collection. By focusing on the relationship between the artists in ser- vice and the Sacchetti, this study expands our knowledge of the artists and the complexity of the processes of agency in the fulfillment of commissions. In so doing, it underlines how the Sacchetti used art to proclaim a certain public image and to announce Cardinal Giulio’s candidacy to the papal throne. ______ copy(ies) Ave Papa Ave Papabile Payable by cheque (to Victoria University - CRRS) ISBN 978-0-7727-2028-2 or by Visa/Mastercard $24.50 Name as on card ___________________________________ (Outside Canada, please pay in US $.) Visa/Mastercard # _________________________________ Price includes applicable taxes. Expiry date _____________ Security code ______________ Send form with cheque/credit card Signature ________________________________________ information to: Publications, c/o CRRS Name ___________________________________________ 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East Address __________________________________________ Toronto, ON M5S 1K7 Canada __________________________________________ The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria College in the University of Toronto Tel: 416-585-4465 Fax: 416-585-4430 [email protected] www.crrs.ca . -
OF MANY THINGS 106 West 56Th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 Rom 1951 to 1969 the State Are Not
OF MANY THINGS 106 West 56th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 rom 1951 to 1969 the State are not. Perhaps this is what is meant Subscriptions: (800) 627-9533 of Florida was represented when presidential aspirants say that www.americamedia.org facebook.com/americamag Fin the U.S. Senate by George “we” are going to “take our country twitter.com/americamag A. Smathers, a Miami attorney and back.” Perhaps they are suggesting that future used car salesman who is best Peoria should reclaim from New York PRESIDENT AND EDITOR IN CHIEF Matt Malone, S.J. remembered for his close friendships what is rightly theirs? Maybe that’s EXECUTIVE EDITORS with two U.S. presidents: John F. not what is meant, but then just who Robert C. Collins, S.J., Maurice Timothy Reidy Kennedy, with whom he would is the “our” in “we are going to take our MANAGING EDITOR Kerry Weber occasionally raise hell; and Richard country back?” And from whom are LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Nixon, to whom he sold his Key they (and or we) taking it back? SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT Kevin Clarke Biscayne home—what would become Such is the logic of demagogues, EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. Nixon’s Southern White House. which would be as laughable as EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS My favorite story about the Smather’s Redneck Speech if it weren’t Jeremy Zipple, S.J. otherwise nondescript Mr. Smathers for the fact that in the current political POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J. -
Holy Land and Holy See
1 HOLY LAND AND HOLY SEE PAPAL POLICY ON PALESTINE DURING THE PONTIFICATES OF POPES PIUS X, BENEDICT XV AND PIUS XI FROM 1903 TO 1939 PhD Thesis Gareth Simon Graham Grainger University of Divinity Student ID: 200712888 26 July 2017 2 CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction – Question, Hypothesis and Methodology Chapter 2: A Saint for Jerusalem – Pope Pius X and Palestine Chapter 3: The Balfour Bombshell – Pope Benedict XV and Palestine Chapter 4: Uneasy Mandate – Pope Pius XI and Palestine Chapter 5: Aftermath and Conclusions Appendix 1.The Roads to the Holy Sepulchre – Papal Policy on Palestine from the Crusades to the Twentieth Century Appendix 2.The Origins and Evolution of Zionism and the Zionist Project Appendix 3.The Policies of the Principal Towards Palestine from 1903 to 1939 Appendix 4. Glossary Appendix 5. Dramatis Personae Bibliography 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION – QUESTION, HYPOTHESIS AND METHODOLOGY 1.1. THE INTRIGUING QUESTION Invitation to Dr Theodor Herzl to attend Audience with Pope Pius X On 25 January 1904, the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the recently-elected Pope Pius X granted an Audience in the Vatican Palace to Dr Theodor Herzl, leader of the Zionist movement, and heard his plea for papal approval for the Zionist project for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Dr Herzl outlined to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church the full details of the Zionist project, providing assurances that the various Holy Places in Palestine would be “ex-territorialised” to ensure their security and protection, and sought the Pope’s endorsement and support, preferably through the issuing of a pro-Zionist encyclical. -
Catholic Boy Punches Back to Win Pennine Ridge
SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2018 HAWKISH >MILES= THE BEST AT PENN CATHOLIC BOY PUNCHES Having been cross-entered for a potential clash with fellow BACK TO WIN PENNINE RIDGE >TDN Rising Star= Analyze It (Point of Entry) in Saturday=s GII Pennine Ridge S., Hawkish (Artie Schiller) shipped into Central Pennsylvania for the GII Penn Mile S. and arguably walked away with the mantle of the top sophomore turf male following a convincing three-length victory. Ultimately sent off the 7-5 chalk after battling GII American Turf hero Maraud (Blame) in a pari-mutuel sense, the athletic gelding was in the mix and headstrong through the opening exchanges, but Manny Franco was ultimately able to get the gelding to settle better and he raced in about sixth as California raider Encumbered (Violence) set the pace inside of Maraud for the opening half-mile. Steered out into the four path and facing the breeze down the back, Hawkish leapt into the bridle leaving the three-eighths pole and began picking off rivals one by one while covering extra real estate. Cont. p4 (click here) Catholic Boy (left) fights back | Joe Labozzetta photo >TDN Rising Star= Analyze It (Point of Entry) was nearly IN TDN EUROPE TODAY everyone=s banker to take his unbeaten streak to four in Saturday=s GII Pennine Ridge S., but Catholic Boy (More Than MASAR CONQUERS IN THE BLUE RIBAND Ready) had different ideas and, despite having to overcome Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) becomes a first Epsom Derby winner in the Godolphin blue. trouble in a couple of spots when push was coming to shove, Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. -
Cajetan's Economic Treatises
Journal of Markets & Morality Volume 18, Number 2 (Fall 2015): 349–371 Copyright © 2015 Cajetan’s Economic Treatises A Critique of Rothbard’s Philip Neri Reese Proto-Austrian Portrayal Providence College Although Murray Rothbard gave high praise to the economic teachings of Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan, portraying him as proto-Austrian, this article argues that the reality is more complicated. Examining Cajetan’s three major economic works, On Monetary Exchange, On Charitable Pawnshops, and On Usury, it demonstrates that he could be in turn liberal, moderate, and conservative, depending on the particular context and question. It concludes that read within his own scholastic and pastoral approach, Cajetan may still have insights and contributions to offer the history of economics, but of a more mixed character than Rothbard’s portrayal. Introduction In his 1995 Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard was not shy about praising the economic teachings of Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan, who lived from 1468 to 1534. Rothbard titled the second section of chapter 4 “Cardinal Cajetan: Liberal Thomist,” and thereby gave de Vio the laurel of being “the founder of expectations theory in economics.” Twice Rothbard referred to the cardinal as “the great Cajetan,” and he insisted that Cajetan’s “candid endorsement of upward mobility in a free market was the broadest attempt yet to rid scholasticism of all traces of the ancient contempt for trade and economic gain.”1 When reading such descriptions, it is difficult to avoid forming an image of Cardinal Cajetan as a sort of proto-Austrian, and we have every reason to think that this was the impression Rothbard strove to give. -
Betting on the Papal Election in Sixteenth-Century Rome John M
Number 32 May 2015 Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series University Libraries University of Nevada, Las Vegas Betting on the Papal Election in Sixteenth-Century Rome John M. Hunt ABSTRACT: Wagering on the papal election was a popular pastime among all levels of society in sixteenth-century Rome. Brokers and their clients kept well-informed of the election taking place within the closed doors of the con- clave. Consequently, wagering on the election proved to be a source of disruption since—intentionally or not—it begat rumors of a pope’s election and spurred brokers to use illicit means of discovering the secrets of the conclave. The papacy thus initiated a campaign against the practice during the last twenty-five years of the sixteenth century. This campaign, partially inspired by the Counter-Reformation’s impulse to reform popular mores, proved successful as wagering on papal elections disappeared after 1592. Keywords: Rome, sixteenth century, popes, conclave, papal elections, wagering, the Banchi, avvisi, scommesse, Counter Reformation, papacy Preferred Citation: John M. Hunt, “Betting on the Papal Election in Sixteenth-Century Rome,” Occasional Paper Series, 32. Las Vegas, Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, 2015. Few events excited the people of Rome more than The reality, however, was another picture altogeth- the election of the pope, the holy father of the Catho- er. Despite being closed up in the conclave and with lic Church and the supreme prince of the Eternal City. thousands of guards levied to watch over them in the Rome sat in the center of a great political process that Vatican Palace, the cardinals and election itself could would determine not only its future but that of the en- never escape influence from without. -
Conclave 1492: the Election of a Renaissance Pope
Conclave 1492: The Election of a Renaissance Pope A Reacting to the Past Microgame Instructor’s Manual Version 1 – August 2017 William Keene Thompson Ph.D. Candidate, History University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] Table of Contents Game Summary 1 Procedure 3 Biographical Sketches and Monetary Values 4 Role Distribution and Vote Tally Sheet 6 Anticipated Vote Distributions 7 Conclave Ballot Template 8 Role Sheets (23 Cardinals) 9 Additional Roles 33 Extended Gameplay and Supplementary Readings 34 William Keene Thompson, UC Santa Barbara [email protected] Conclave 1492: The Election of a Renaissance Pope The Situation It is August 1492. Pope Innocent VIII has died. Now the Sacred College of Cardinals must meet to choose his successor. The office of Pope is a holy calling, born of the legacy of Saint Peter the first Bishop of Rome, who was one of Christ’s most trusted apostles. The Pope is therefore God’s vicar on Earth, the temporal representation of divine authority and the pinnacle of the church hierarchy. However, the position has also become a political role, with the Holy Father a temporal ruler of the Papal States in the center of the Italian peninsula and charged with protecting the interests of the Church across Christendom. As such, the position requires not only spiritual vision but political acumen too, and, at times ruthlessness and deception, to maintain the church’s position as a secular and spiritual power in Europe. The Cardinals must therefore consider both a candidate’s spiritual and political qualifications to lead the Church. -
Shadow Report
, 2013 © Megan Peterson Shadow Report Prepared for 52nd Session of the UN Committee Against Torture in Connection with its Review of the Holy See Submitted by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests April 2014 Cover Art Copyright Megan Peterson, 2013. All rights reserved. Megan Peterson is an artist and survivor of sexual violence by a priest. She is also a complainant in the effort to hold Vatican officials accountable for rape and sexual violence as crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court and a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Table of Contents Submitting Organizations iii List of Key Commissions, Inquiries and Investigations iv-v Introduction 1 I. The Committee Has Long Recognized Rape and Sexual Violence as Forms of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment and Punishment 4 II. Numerous Commissions and Inquiries Around the World Have Established the Existence of Widespread Rape and Sexual Violence in the Church 6 III. Rape and Sexual Violence Have Resulted in Severe Pain and Suffering, Both Physical and Mental, and Have Amounted to Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment 8 A. Suicides 10 B. Lasting Physical, Mental, Psychological and Emotional Harm 11 IV. The Holy See’s Policies and Practices Have Enabled, and Continue to Enable, the Widespread Rape and Sexual Violence and Result in Severe Physical and Mental Harm 13 A. Legal Status of the Holy See and Implications for Fulfillment of its Obligations under the Convention 13 B. Structure of the Church and Chain of Command 14 C. -
Earthquake in the Vatican Media. the Winter Campaign of Bergoglio's
Earthquake in the Vatican Media. The Winter Campaign of Bergoglio’s Stalwarts Dij, 3/01/2019 URL article: http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2019/01/03/earthquake-in-the-v… > Italiano > English > Español > Français > All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English * What never went right in three years for the flighty monsignor Dario Viganò, head of the Vatican dicastery for communication from 2015 to 2018, has come off in a few days, around Christmas, for his methodical successor, Paolo Ruffini. The two bastions of “L’Osservatore Romano” and the press office of the Holy See, which seemed to be unassailable because they were overseen by the secretariat of state, have both fallen under the control of the dicastery, which in turn is more firmly than ever in the hands of Pope Francis’s stalwarts. The first barrage of this winter blitzkrieg hit its mark on December 18, with the brusque removal of Giovanni Maria Vian as director of “L’Osservatore Romano,” replaced by Andrea Monda, and with the appointment of Andrea Tornielli as head of the editorial board of the dicastery for communication. The second barrage was fired on December 31, with the sudden resignation of the American Greg Burke and the Spaniard Paloma García Ovejero, respectively since 2016 the director and deputy director of the Vatican press office, and with the appointment as the new “ad interim” press office director of Alessandro Gisotti, until now the coordinator of social media for the dicastery for communication. But let’s take things in order. 1. L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO 1 In eleven years of management, Giovanni Maria Vian, a specialist on ancient Christian literature, gave the official newspaper of the Holy See an original profile. -
Pope Francis at a Glance
Pope Francis at a Glance Pope Francis: Dec. 17, 1936: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1969: Ordained for the Jesuits. May, 1992: Appointed titular Bishop of Auica and Auxiliary of Buenos Aires. 1998: Appointed bishop of Buenos Aires. February, 2001: Created a cardinal by John Paul II 2005: President of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina until 2011. Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires in 1936, of Mario Jose Bergoglio, an Italian immigrant and railway worker from the region around Turin and Regina Maria Sivori, a housewife. As a teenager, he had a lung removed as a result of an infection. He has four brothers and sisters. His original plan was to be a chemist, and he received a master's degree in chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires. He then studied at the seminary in Villa Devoto, in Buenos Aries. On March 11, 1958 he entered the Society of Jesus and began studies for the priesthood. He was ordained to the priesthood on 13 December 1969, by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano. Bergoglio attained the position of novice master there and became professor of theology. Bergoglio obtained a degree in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel, and then taught literature and psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada in Santa Fe, and the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires. He also taught literature and psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada in Santa Fe, and the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires. After just four years as priest he served as Jesuit provincial for Argentina from 1973 to 1979. -
Some Kind of Pope
Some Kind of Pope by Anthony Favier On the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the throne of St. Peter, Anthony Favier reflects on the career path and achievements of a pontiff torn between the desire for change and the need to embody a weakening Catholic institution. Since his election on 13th March 2013, Pope Francis has made a lasting impression on his contemporaries. As the head of a hybrid institution, he plays two roles: that of religious leader (the Bishop of Rome) and politician (the sovereign leader of the Vatican State). Francis now stands as a leading media figure; yet embodies a paradox in our globally secularised and democratic societies. The 266th successor of Saint Peter is certainly a fascinating figure. A quick information research shows that he is a leading editorial topic. Countless books have been written on him. The 5th anniversary of his election to the throne of Saint Peter will no doubt be an occasion for a new batch of publications. Right-wing or left-wing, liberal or conservative, progressive or traditional, there is no shortage of interpretative frameworks. The usual divisions in social and political analysis, however, may struggle to account for this man with a complex mind. The pope is loyal to the Jesuit tradition and rejects ideology, which he considers to be something that isolates people and limits their experience of faith. It is difficult to identify Francis’ “programme”. At best, it is possible to distinguish a vision of the world and the Church. What are the traits that have characterised that vision five years into his pontificate? In particular, what is the pope’s position on gender-related issues? Although the pope enjoys unprecedented popularity, it could be said that his method has revived tensions within contemporary Catholicism.