Beatification of Pope John Paul II – Please Don’t!

Your Eminence:                                                                                                          

We have read attentively news reports of Your Eminence’s intervention at a conference held in Rome yesterday concerning the impending beatification of John Paul II. Catholic News Service quotes Your Eminence to the effect that “Pope John Paul II is being beatified not because of his impact on history or on the Catholic Church [emphasis added], but because of the way he lived the Christian virtues of faith, hope and love…” [Cindy Wooten, “John Paul II being beatified for holiness, not his papacy, speakers say," Catholic News Service, 1 April 2011].  Click here to read the rest of the letter to the Prefect for the Causes of Saints…

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Solemn Proclamation of Beatification

The Anglo-Catholic is honored to number amongst its distinguished staff:

Matthew Alderman
Matthew Alderman Studios

Fr. Edwin Barnes
Former Bishop of Richborough
Personal Ordinariate of OLW

Fr. Samuel L. Edwards
Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family
Traditional Anglican Communion

Fr. Michael Gollop, SSC
Parish of St. Arvans, Monmouthshire

Fr. Seán Finnegan
Diocese of Arundel and Brighton

Fr. William P. "Doc" Holiday
Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family
Traditional Anglican Communion

Ralph Johnston
The Atonement Academy

Fr. Christopher Phillips
Anglican Use/Pastoral Provision
Our Lady of the Atonement

Fr. Giles Pinnock
St. Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton

Fr. Chori Jonathin Seraiah
Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family
Traditional Anglican Communion

Fr. Mark Siegel
Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family
Traditional Anglican Communion

Dr. William Tighe
Muhlenberg College

Fr. Ed Tomlinson, SSC
St. Barnabas'
Royal Tunbridge Wells

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