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.


Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Manifesto for a new Papacy


A few days ago the website Rotate Cæli published the text of an interesting and striking open letter addressed to the Cardinals. An essentially anonymous piece it does bear the name of Peter Kwasniewski who, I assume, has maybe co-ordinated it.

It could be seen as a Traditionalist programme for a new Pontificate.

How much of it one might expect to see under whoever is elected as the next Supreme Pontiff will very much depend upon who that new Pope actually is. What is important is that theologians and others concerned for the future direction and mission of the Church are sufficiently confident to make their case.


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