Forget Westminster. The eyes of the world are currently on a more internationally-recognised ecclesiastical appointment.Colleen McCullough's 1977 novel, The Thorn Birds, is being adapted into a stage musical.
Producers have already cast Helen Anker in the role of Meggie Cleary but are still looking for her love interest, Fr (later Cardinal) Ralph de Bricassart.
Bricassart was played by Richard Chamberlain (above) in the 1980s American mini-series.
So, we need someone who can sing and who is as comfortable in episcopal robes as he would be in clerical black. And I can't help feeling we have one or two bishops who would fit the bill.
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Can Dame T sing?
I am sure that he would love to be the next Cardinal, although I'm sure he would prefer Westminster!
Maybe some of his acolytes, such as "Away with the fairies" would love to fulfill their own vocation in the chorus!
I guess all readers of this blog have seen the recent posts on holy poof about SSPX. They are really getting themselves into a tizz. Some want them back, birettas and all and others, the Dame included, seem to want them a million kilometers away.
They obviously think they know more about Vatican II and Canon Law than all the people working in the Vatican, and if they think any Pope from Peter to Benedict is wrong (wrong = disagrees with them), they try and put him right as well.
And did you all notice that one of the lace petticoat brigade is being touted in this weekend's Tablet as the next general secretary of ICEL, thus confirming what the grapevine has been buzzing with for the past few days?
Andrew (known to his detractors as Audrey) Wadsworth is a priest of Westminster diocese who apparently celebrates only in the Extraordinary Form. He is a Latinist (though we do not know how good or otherwise, nor whether he knows anything about translating), and seems an odd choice to head up a body which is working in a form of celebration which he does not himself practise. His main preoccupation seems to be the purple pom-pom on his biretta, which has attracted much comment on the traddie blogs.
I suspect that +Cormac is protecting his successor by ridding the diocese of this troublesome priest while the going is good. How did the man ever get ordained? (The same question, of course, can be asked about many others in recent times.)
The Dame introduces a sensible thread (for once) about the founder of the Legionaries of Christ but his regular bloggers manage to turn it into a discussion about SSPX and Williamson. Now they are getting excited about Pell visiting Oxford, but that too is moving on to Williamson.
According to the Dame, not only do the bishops of England and Wales need reforming but now the Vatican does as well. Anyone who doesn't do what he wants is in need of reform........
never mind who will be the new cardinal, when will we get a new post?
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