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About Me
- Joanna Bogle
- Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance. Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
God bless our new Pope Francis
2 comments:
Thanks for this! Time will tell, of course. But certainly I have very little patience with those who would deny the appellation because this evil and that evil befell the Church during his reign, or because he couldn't read the secrets of every one of his contemporaries' and co-workers' souls.
One might ask, what does it matter? Once you know God - really know God - and that he alone is great and good, what we call human beings no longer signifies much.
What one can say about Pope John Paul is that he failed the biggest moral crisis to face the Catholic Church in his time as pope, because he did nothing about the abuse scandal. To say it was only an evil that "befell" the Church during his reign is a shameful excuse, as if it just happened out of the blue. John Paul presided over the system that let down the victims of abuse. Whatever his other qualities that is a terrible blot on his reputation.
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