http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/16/modern-historians-on-pope-benedict/ A First Things Blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/16/modern-historians-on-pope-benedict/comment-page-1/#comment-24512 Catherine Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:48:37 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21462#comment-24512 Well said. Thanks. I have exactly the same frustration with Duffy myself. But like many English Catholics Duffy’s family also has Anglican members. The ‘why can’t we all get along?’ motif is strong as is the English nationalism of the last two centuries (buttressed by the half-myth of little England fighting alone against the European forces of darkness). The Catholic Church can seem, even to English Catholics, a foreign institution. And of course it is in the sense that Catholicism is not a set of national churches in communion with each other. Benedict has made this clear versus Kasper. That’s why English Catholics like the esteemed Duffy can deal with pre-modern Catholicism but not the world-wide variety of recent years.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/16/modern-historians-on-pope-benedict/comment-page-1/#comment-24364 The Anchoress | A First Things Blog Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:10:24 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21462#comment-24364 [...] Some reading while we wait: Modern Historians on Pope Benedict XVI. [...]

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