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, 4 May 2025

An American Priest on the parochial legacy of Pope Francis


Rotate Cæli reproduces a very recent article by Fr Kevin M. Cusick, a former US Naval Chaplain and a columnist and blogger based in Benedict in rural Maryland. In the article Fr Cusick contrasts the impact of the successive pontificates of Pope Benedict and Pope Francis upon his parish of St Francis de Sales.

It makes for sobering reading at Imagining a Restorative Conclave


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