Louder than words.
Pope Benedict XVI and Anglican
Archbishop Dr. Rowan Williams
In his visit to Westminster Abbey, Pope Benedict XVI
wore the stole of Pope Leo XIII in the presence of the Anglican Archbishop Dr.
Rowan Williams;
Going back in 1896, Pope Leo XIII issued a papal bull declaring
all Anglican ordination to be "absolutely
null and utterly void". [Apostolicae Curae]
thus through symbol, Pope Benedict XVI reiterates the Church's position and what the good Leo declared and said during the year 1896.
Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic
Patriarch Gregorios III Laham of Antioch
In 1868, Pope Pius IX convoked a council known as the Vatican I. And during the First Vatican Council (1869 – 1870) a Melkite
Catholic Patriach named Gregory II
Youssef refused to sign and emerged as a prominent opponent of the dogma at
the Council; He and the seven other Melkite bishops present voted non placet at the general congregation
and left Rome as a sign of protest. But Pope Pius IX insisted and after the Council
concluded, he dispatched an emissary to secure the signatures of the patriarch
and the Melkite delegation. (Thanks to God), Patriarch Gregory II and the
Melkite bishops subscribed to it.
Pope Benedict XVI and St.
Celestine V
From Dr. Scott Hahn's facebook page:
Back on April 29, 2009,
Pope Benedict XVI did something rather striking, but which went largely
unnoticed.
He stopped off in Aquila, Italy, and visited the tomb of an obscure medieval Pope named St. Celestine V (1215-1296). After a brief prayer, he left his pallium, the symbol of his own episcopal authority as Bishop of Rome, on top of Celestine's tomb!
He stopped off in Aquila, Italy, and visited the tomb of an obscure medieval Pope named St. Celestine V (1215-1296). After a brief prayer, he left his pallium, the symbol of his own episcopal authority as Bishop of Rome, on top of Celestine's tomb!
Saint Celestine V - the only sainted Pope to have
resigned the papacy.
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