Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• The Argentine to deport Bishop Williamson. The truth on this development and everything I’ve written on the subject. Tolerance on non-essentials is not only for people one likes.
• Arturo on founders’ cults. Not necessarily a bad thing; private and popular veneration (huge in the folk Catholicism he rightly likes) is partly how saints are recognised officially. Outside of church you may venerate anyone. Also actually I agree with Diane that Pope Benedict’s revival is far from a bleak time to be a Roman Catholic. (And again it’s obviously a good thing partly because it’s NOT a ‘Santo subito!’ personality cult. Better a quiet, Mozart-playing, cat-loving octogenarian German professor than JP the Overrated and the charismatics.) See above: here he did not ‘goof’. But I disagree with her praise for the middle of the road (shut up, give up all that artsy-fartsy old-fashioned stuff and go Novus Ordo) in the fifth comment, her first: as Newman wrote in his Apologia the Monophysites were the MOTR of their day and their approach was not Catholic.
• Rod Dreher on Fr Maciel’s mind control.
• Pelosi and the Pope. My pennorth.
• Whither Arcic? Hilary’s fiery take. Mine on hers.
• Another on the Anglican row. More, on this.
• Catholic meets ‘Catholic’. Fr Hunwicke tells the truth. The ageing quislings Pope Benedict has to get rid of.
• Fr Jones: I am not a guest in the Church of England. The Catholic faith was taught to me by Anglican priests in Anglican Churches, this is my ground, my sacred space, my home, my birth-right and that which I pass to my children. I know, Father, and appreciate your soldiering on in Frs Lowder and Mackonochie’s footsteps but RC national parishes — in full communion but retaining its native culture and as Andrew Burnham has said a way to bring our folk with us — are the movement’s only Catholic future in England as Fr H has said.