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THE PRIEST the journal of Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia. ISSN 0818-9005 Where Peter is, there is the Church. Vol 12 No 1 – May 2008 IN THIS ISSUE Reflections on Spe Salvi Tracey Rowland 2 Welcome to the new Apostolic Nuncio in Australia Editor 2 On the new GIRM for Australia Father Paul-Anthony McGavin 4 Cardinal Arinze on liturgical practice CNA Report 4 Monsignor Guido Marini speaks to Il Reformista Paolo Rodari (trans. by Gregor Kollmorgen) 6 Father John P. Wilkinson, r.i.p.: a tribute Father Peter Thompson 9 Pope Benedict XVI: Fidei Defensor David Birch 10 The hidden costs of co-education Photo credit: Umut Arabul, Flickr Andrew Mullins 12 Monsignor John P. Kelly, r.i.p.: a tribute Editor 13 [In] many places celebrations The Gift of Confession were not faithful to the prescrip- Father Michael de Stoop 14 tions of the new Missal, but the John Paul II: We love you! latter actually was understood Father Peter Mitchell 16 as authorising or even requiring World Youth Day 2008 Peter Zaans 17 creativity, which frequently led Architecture Motivated by a Desire to Serve God to deformations of the liturgy Ethan Anthony 18 which were hard to bear. I am Vocations shortage? a Sri Lanka story Editor 19 speaking from experience, since Address to the Roman Rota Pope Benedict XVI 22 I too lived through that period with all its hopes and confu- Rural Pastoring Father Paul-Anthony McGavin 24 sions. And I have seen how arbi- Solemn Pontifical Mass in celebration ofSummorum Pontificum trary deformations of the liturgy Father Michael McCaffrey, FSSP 25 caused deep pain to individuals The Real Ratzinger Revealed totally rooted in the faith of the John L. Allen 32 Church. Saying “Yes” – following Christ in the way of Mary (Benedict XVI in his letter to bishops Michelle Vass, Peter Hawes, Brother Greg McDonald 34 transmitting Summorum Pontificum, 7 July 2007) Fly Away to Heaven Project Father John Fowles, CCS 35 2008 Annual Conference venue Riverglenn Conference Centre, Indooroopilly, Brisbane, Queensland THE PRIEST the journal of the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Editor: Rev Paul-Anthony McGavin, MTh, PhD, MACE. Associate Editor: Professor David Birch, DPhil (York). Editor: PO Box 246, Jamison Centre ACT 2614 [email protected] www.australianccc.org Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia. Where Peter is, there is the Church. Editor’s Notices Editor’s remarks. There have been times in my life when Secretariat remarks. Especially for those paying after 1 my income seemed exactly to match the bills that I had to pay, July 2008, kindly note the revised sums that are shown in and these times helped me early to trust in Providence. 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MeMBeRSHIP AND DueS to: ACCC Secretariat, PO Box 8004, North Road LPO, Brighton east VIC 3187 phone/fax (9am-3pm weekdays only): (03) 9596 4343 e-mail: [email protected] NB: NOTE NEW ADDRESS & CONTACT DETAILS Web site: http://www.australianccc.org/ Printing: Active Print, Wagga Wagga NSW 1 The Priest Associate Professor Tracey Reflections on “Spe Salvi” Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Studies Tracey Rowland in Marriage and the Family, Melbourne, and author of “Ratzinger’s Faith” (Oxford Participants in the ACCC 2006 Annual Conference had a great foretaste of aspects University Press, 2008). of the thought found in Professor Row- The Institute is running a Colloquium land’s recently-released book (see “The over three nights as part of Melbourne Priest”, November 2006). “Days in the Diocese” prior to World The present article carries forward these Youth Day. The first panel discussion insights. (Ed.) will be under the banner of “The Theo- logical Virtue of Hope”; the second, the “Hope of the Dying”; and the third, The second of Pope Benedict’s encyclicals offers a reflection “Heaven, Hell and Purgatory”. Speak- on the theological virtue of hope and is expected to form one ers will include: Dr Adam Cooper on the of a trilogy of encyclicals on the theological virtues (faith, topic of Hope in St Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews, Anna Krohn on Hope in the hope and love), much the same as John Paul II offered a Thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand, trilogy on Christology (Redemptor Hominis), Pneumatology and Dr Tracey Rowland on Hope in the (Dominum et Vivificantem) and the mercy of God the Father thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict (Dives in Misericordia). XVI. (see, www.jp2institute.org) Reading this encyclical on hope, like reading Deus Caritas and The End of Time? (2004). Chapter 8 of Aidan Nichols’ est on love, is like taking a Christian Doctrine 101 course in The Thought of Benedict XVI is also dedicated to the topic which special emphasis is given to the intellectual errors of of eschatology in the works of Ratzinger and provides an the time which block the perception of ordinary people to an excellent introduction to this territory. understanding of what true love or true hope is. Central to Ratzinger’s reading of this topic is the notion that In this context, Pope Benedict suggests that the culture of at least since the time of the French Revolution the Christian the western world today is in an analogous state to that of understanding of hope has been mutated into Marxist and the Christians in Corinth at the time of St Paul: myth has lost secular liberal notions of progress. The encyclical offers its credibility, the state religion has become fossilised into an overview of these alternative versions of hope. Signifi- simple ceremonial with little socially transforming power, cant here is Pope Benedict’s reference to the works of the and philosophical rationalism had confined the gods within Frankfurt School social theorists, particularly Theodore the realm of unreality.