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@holysmoke
Sep 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Here is an expert reaction to Cardinal Nichols’s strategic review from the Society for the Protection of Westminster Cathedral Choir. I’ve deleted my own off-the-cuff reaction. This is what you need to know:
While welcoming a couple of the review’s changes, the SPWCC’s statement is extraordinarily damning. The passage below suggests that the school is about to come under painful and overdue scrutiny.

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Feb 15, 2023
Thread: Arthur Roche is up to something. Everyone is talking about his brazen self-confidence, his willingness to exceed his remit on curtailing the Latin Mass, his general swanking and air of invulnerability.
As Prefect of the DDW he has a lot of influence, but he's behaving as if he, rather than Francis, is calling the shots. It's as if he thinks the Pope won't notice. And that's quite a risk given Francis's brutal record of sackings. So what's Arthur's game?
One theory – you may think it incredible – is that he's reading himself for the conclave. Roche would be no one's first choice (unless you count Mike Lewis) and he knows it. But perhaps he thinks he could 'emerge' to break a deadlock.
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Dec 8, 2022
Thread. 1. It is vital that #CatholicTwitter gives full attention to the breaking scandal of Fr Mark Rupnik SJ, whose mosaic art earned him celebrity. Some aspects are as shocking as those of the McCarrick scandal – if not more so. Pope Francis's behaviour is inexplicable.
2. Rupnik was accused last year of spiritually and sexually abusing adult women from a Slovenian religious community. The Vatican knew of the allegations , Rupnik suspended but no prosecution because of a canonical statute of limitations. Unbelievable. And...
3. ... yet as @PillarCatholic explains Rupnik could have been prosecuted if the Vatican had chosen to 'waive prescription' (ie statute of limitations ignored). But there is worse.
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Dec 7, 2022
Good bless @PillarCatholic for its newsletter takedown of Lists of Catholic Influencers – bittersweet reading for any Catholic journalists driven to the point of insanity (or resignation) by proprietors who think of little else. Can't resist tweeting it out. Here goes:
2. Very good point at the end of @PillarCatholic's intro to its typical time-wasting Catholic Influencers' List:
3. The Pillar's guide to making your own "influential Catholic list":
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Sep 25, 2020
I was unfair to Cardinal Nichols earlier and I apologise. He’s restored some choir services. It is the school, not Nichols, that has disgraced itself and is withholding crucial information.
My sniping at Mgr Langham was also unjustified and mean-spirited. I’m sorry, Father.
It is, however, disgraceful that the review fails to criticise the headmaster of the school for decisions and behaviour that *still* jeopardise the future of the choir, which is not returning to weekend boarding.
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Sep 16, 2020
Let me try my hand at @Pontifex-style spiritual wisdom. I’ll try not to make it too crude a parody. So....
‘The integrity of creation demands a new openness to the prophetic witness of native peoples, and thus a paradigmatic shift in the Church’s appreciation of the inner logic of ecology...
‘Such a reorientation can succeed only if ecceslial structures embrace a radical commitment to restoring a natural harmony disrupted by centuries of capitalist and neoliberal disruption of the Common Good.’
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Aug 28, 2020
Fascinating. Brazilian campaign against beatification of Helder Camara makes detailed claims about his pro-Nazi past. Author Raymond de Souza (Brazilian layman, not to be confused with the distinguished priest) says he knew Camara 'rather well'. Image
Camara later became a cheerleader for vicious Communist regimes, says de Souza: Image
And worse, arguably: Image
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