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Ma’am’s loyal subjects BACK IN 2002, the invitation to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor to stay at Sandringham and preach at the Sunday morning service was widely seen as a milestone in relations between the royal family and the Catholic Church. Now, in a new book, the Archbishop of Canterbury confirms that the gesture was a “visible message” by the Queen to her Catholic subjects.
Dr Rowan Williams has told the Daily
Mail royal correspondent Robert Hardman that a recurring message in her reign has been that “Roman Catholics are not foreign eccentrics”. The Queen, he went on, does not seek to mould the Church of England to her tastes and is “refreshing, perceptive, warm and deeply supportive”. Dr Williams’ remarks appear in Hardman’s book, Our Queen, pub- lished last month by Hutchinson at £20. Meanwhile,
the organisers of a recent
event in Assisi to launch a network of green pilgrimage sites were initially disappointed when the Duke of Edinburgh cancelled his attendance due to a heavy cold. But the Catholic Princess Michael of Kent, who was already in Italy on other business, saved the day by dashing to Assisi and delivering the Prince’s speech on his behalf.
Wanderers give thanks AFTER SEVEN successive defeats at home, Bolton Wanderers’ return to form was dramatic with a 5-0 win over Stoke City last Sunday. The manager of the premiership team, Owen Coyle, has attributed the victory at the Reebok Stadium to divine intervention and thanked his parish priest for including the hymn “Hail, Queen of Heaven” at Mass the night before. The first verse of the hymn includes the lines, “Mother of Christ, star of the sea, pray for the wanderer, pray for me.” Speaking to the BBC after the game, Mr Coyle said: “I had a good feeling coming into the match. I went to Mass last night. The leaving hymn was ‘Pray for the wanderer’, so I need to thank my parish priest for that.” Mr Coyle and his family are active members
of the parish of St Mary’s in Langho, Lancashire, and the Diocese of Salford. The parish priest, Fr Leo Heakin, a Burnley fan, said: “After Mass, Owen turned to me and thanked me for the hymn. I went to Lourdes recently and brought him back rosary beads. I’m glad they have worked.”
Courageous witness FRANZ JAGERSTATTER, the farmer who was executed by the Nazis and beatified in 2007,
sainthood by another Austrian martyr. Carl Lampert, the highest-ranking church- man to be guillotined by the Nazis, is to be
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round for dinner unavoidably on a Friday you want to give them something really nice”. The book, priced £5 (including postage), is
available from Fr Aidan Murray SDB, Drumlanrig, Ross Road, Newent, Gloucestershire GL18 1BG.
beatified tomorrow in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg province. He was the acting Bishop of Bregenz, which today is Austria’s westernmost diocese. He was arrested following the annexation of Austria in 1938 after writing a death notice for another priest, Blessed Otto Neururer, who had been hung upside down on a cross and left to die slowly at Dachau for opposing the Gestapo. Lampert was held in the concentration
camps of Dachau and Sachsenhausen- Oranienburg. He was executed as an alleged spy in 1944 in the German city of Halle. According to Walter Juen, an official of
Feldkirch Diocese, Lampert was a man “who felt committed to the truth, who advocated his faith and who did not cede even a millimetre, because his conscience did not allow it”.
Penitential dish
THOUGH HAILING from Liverpool, Archbishop Vincent Nichols did not eat the traditional meat stew called “scouse” which gives locals their nickname of “Scousers”. Nevertheless, the archbishop has contributed the ingredients for “blind scouse” to a book of recipes for the Church’s recommended meat-free Fridays. He says the dish is not from his own kitchen or his childhood but was described by a Liverpool priest who remembered it from the days when the requirement to abstain from meat on Fridays was an obligation. Blind scouse substitutes meat with beans and/or pearl barley, which are then combined with root vegetables, stock and seasoning. The recipe book, Festive Fasts for Fridays,
is to be followed on the path to
was compiled by Christine Roy, a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes, Newent, Gloucestershire. She admitted she had never tried blind scouse but heartily recommended some of the soup recipes, and the lentil loaf. From The Tablet’s own Rose Prince there is flageolet beans with buttered tomato and wine and also 10 fish dishes, included, says Ms Roy, because “if you have people coming
Mission’s mansion THERE’S A definite gain for Ireland’s ambas- sador to Italy from the decision to close his country’s embassy to the Holy See. His excel- lency and his staff will move from their unprepossessing offices in the centre of Rome to the grandeur of the Villa Spada on the Janiculum Hill. The seventeenth-century house, with its gardens facing the Tiber, was the official home of Ireland’s last 13 ambas- sadors to the Holy See. In 1849, it was the last headquarters of Garibaldi and was dam- aged during the fighting between the French and Italian republicans. The villa was bought by the Irish state in
1946 and in recent years has been compre- hensively restored. A small museum on the first floor is open to the public. According to the Irish Embassy to the Holy See’s website, the villa “stands today as a symbol of Ireland’s long and fruitful relationship with the Holy See”. That relationship has suffered of late given the Irish Government’s complaints about the Vatican’s handling of clerical abuse cases. But at least the Irish state will keep its splendid base in Rome. (See Seán Donlon, page 12.)
They’re in demand THE POPULARITY of the Chapel edition of the new English-language Missal has caused unexpected supply problems for its publisher, the Catholic Truth Society. The CTS, which publishes the Missal in England, Wales, Scotland and Australia, as well as supplying it in smaller numbers to other English-speaking nations, has confirmed that it has run out of copies of the mid-sized version of the book after underestimating demand, and will now have to order a reprint. At £130, the Chapel edition is half the price of the larger Altar Missal – which, like the smallest Study edition, is still in stock. David Chapman, manager of St Paul’s Bookshop, Westminster, told us the situation was very frustrating for him and his customers. “I was told it would be at least six months before it was available again. I just expected this to be a book that would be in stock ready for order when requested by customers,” he said. Fergal Martin, general secretary of the
CTS, said the Chapel edition was unlikely to arrive before the new English translation of the Mass is introduced in the first week of Advent.
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