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.


Sunday, 27 April 2025

Peter Kwasniewski on Pope Francis


I quite often link to online posts about Church matters by the very distinguished U.S. based theologian and commentator Peter Kwasniewski. Today I came upon a special issue of his podcast Tradition and Sanity  which draws together a whole series of articles, mainly from American sites, written this past week about Pope Francis and his pontificate.

The compilation is elegant, informed, and in so many ways brilliant. There is virtually nothing one can disagree with, and stylishly says what so many of us feel but do not have the skill to write or means to publish. It is scathing and excoriating. 


Listen to it - it is a wonderful antidote to both the last twelve years and the outpouring of slush by the liberal media.


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Zephyrinus said...

Thank you, John, for this extremely interesting Link to a valuable counter-blast to the (as you pithily called it) “ . . . the outpouring of slush by the liberal Media”.

28 April 2025 at 10:41

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