Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Monday 26 July 2021

Tough talk from a Dutch Bishop


The storm around Traditionis Custodes shows no sign of abating and the responses have been framed in considered language from groups such as FSSP and are magisterial from many members of the hierarchy, notably Cardinal Nicholls and the Archbishop of Birmingham in this country, and from certainly some members of the US episcopate as well as Cardinals Burke and Mueller.

What is in many ways more striking is a blog post translated and shared by Rorate Coeli from the auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of s’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Thinking of the reputation a generation of so ago of the Dutch Church as a stronghold of progressive liberalism it makes for striking, and indeed impressive, reading. It can be seen at “Liturgy is not a toy of popes; it is the heritage of the Church” — Very strong statement on Traditionis Custodes by Bp. Rob Mutsaerts (Den Bosch, Netherlands) 


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