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Sunday July 7, 2013 Daily Blog John W Previous blogs
Dear Friends
What
a brilliant decision by Pope Francis:
John XXIII and John Paul II to be canonised together before the end of the year
(maybe December 8?)
The patron saint of the liberals and the patron saint of the conservatives on the same menu!
No doubt Francis will use the occasion to call for unity in the Church, and repeat the call that it's time Catholics stopped calling each other "conservative" and "liberal"
c.f.
final section of this
article which has the words:
The church in the United States must
overcome the problem of factionalism. This begins by re-examining our language. America
will no longer use the terms “liberal,” “conservative” or “moderate”
when referring to our fellow Catholics in an ecclesiastical context.
Along
the same line of thought: Francis' decision to publish Benedict's encyclical is
another master stroke.
c.f. Light
of Faith unites two popes
Francis is giving a personal example of unity by identifying with his predecessor.
Four
popes on the one day: the canonisation announcement (2 popes) and the release of the
encyclical (2 popes).
Francis would have slept well, with a mischievous grin on his face, on the night
of July 5!
John W
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