Mr. James-Charles Noonan, an ecclesiastical heraldist, said in 'Inside the Vatican' magazine (November 2005):
“Although Pope Benedict’s heraldic design certainly diverts from the millennium-old formula in papal armorial, none of the criticism of the new Pope’s arms accurately addresses the specific purpose for the deliberate changes in papal heraldic tradition. It should be stated once and for all that Pope Benedict’s heraldic design was purposefully intended to publicly honor his mentor, Paul VI. In fact, the mitre artistically adapted for the new papal coat-of-arms was one actually worn by Pope Paul at the close of the Second Vatican Council (thereafter known as the 'Conciliar Mitre') and which is now believed to be in the personal possession of Benedict XVI.”
“When Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) elevated Joseph Ratzinger to the Sacred College of Cardinals in public consistory in 1977, a unique bond of friendship quickly developed between two churchmen that few outside the Roman Curia realized existed. It was the last year of Paul’s life and thereafter Ratzinger never ceased to honor the Pope who had elevated him to high office. For his own part, Paul VI illustrated his esteem for Ratzinger by bequeathing to him a number of his own papal mitres when he died the following year. And so, when Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy a few months ago, he offered one final tribute to the man who had promoted him to greatness.”
“And although Pope Benedict is the first Pope to abandon these time-honored emblems for himself (and once more one must be reminded that he has done so specifically in honor of Paul VI) it is not his intention to permanently overturn more than 800 years of Church tradition.
In fact, Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano has affirmed that the tiara and keys remain both the symbol of the Petrine Ministry and of the Roman Curia, thus assuring a proper return to this time-honored formula in future pontificates.”
Meanwhile, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI addressed this himself in "Light of the World":
"I would like to address just two points. Paul VI had already renounced the tiara... But it was still in the papal coat of arms, and now it has been removed from that, too."
Noonan is simply a poseur. In point of fact, Paul VI did not wear such a mitre but one which did indeed have a diadem-like row at its base, in addition to the 'stripes'. The striped mitre is simply an absurd ideological imposition by amateurs.
I suppose you are fighting the wrong fight. When so many Catholics around the world still being deprived from the Traditional Latin-Gregorian Mass, I don't understand your insistence in this specific point of the Papal Tiara.
May be as you live in Rome, you don't feel the problem of the Traditional Mass as the majority of the Catholics in the remaining world. Certainly, I love the Tiara, but Mass should be for now our main priority.
i completely agree with @Mauro Cappelari. i live in Vienna and the situation here is terrible.
While I have to attend N.O. masses where people stand during the moment of transsubstantiation, the tiara and the sedia will remain the very last of my concerns.
With so many ways to admire Pope Paul VI I just don't get how the removal of the Tiara from yet another place is in keeping with the lens of continuity the Holy Father so often speaks of. As for its' return in future Pontificates, well wasn't that also said by Paul VI about the Tiara itself, and the Papal Coronation Ceremony? A slippery slope indeed.
WOW. Apart from that, great portrait.
ReplyDeleteMr. James-Charles Noonan, an ecclesiastical heraldist, said in 'Inside the Vatican' magazine (November 2005):
ReplyDelete“Although Pope Benedict’s heraldic design certainly diverts from the millennium-old formula in papal armorial, none of the criticism of the new Pope’s arms accurately addresses the specific purpose for the deliberate changes in papal heraldic tradition. It should be stated once and for all that Pope Benedict’s heraldic design was purposefully intended to publicly honor his mentor, Paul VI. In fact, the mitre artistically adapted for the new papal coat-of-arms was one actually worn by Pope Paul at the close of the Second Vatican Council (thereafter known as the 'Conciliar Mitre') and which is now believed to be in the personal possession of Benedict XVI.”
“When Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) elevated Joseph Ratzinger to the Sacred College of Cardinals in public consistory in 1977, a unique bond of friendship quickly developed between two churchmen that few outside the Roman Curia realized existed. It was the last year of Paul’s life and thereafter Ratzinger never ceased to honor the Pope who had elevated him to high office. For his own part, Paul VI illustrated his esteem for Ratzinger by bequeathing to him a number of his own papal mitres when he died the following year. And so, when Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy a few months ago, he offered one final tribute to the man who had promoted him to greatness.”
“And although Pope Benedict is the first Pope to abandon these time-honored emblems for himself (and once more one must be reminded that he has done so specifically in honor of Paul VI) it is not his intention to permanently overturn more than 800 years of Church tradition.
In fact, Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano has affirmed that the tiara and keys remain both the symbol of the Petrine Ministry and of the Roman Curia, thus assuring a proper return to this time-honored formula in future pontificates.”
Meanwhile, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI addressed this himself in "Light of the World":
"I would like to address just two points. Paul VI had already renounced the tiara... But it was still in the papal coat of arms, and now it has been removed from that, too."
Phenomenal the varied mistakes Mr. James Noonan made in his book.
ReplyDeleteAssurdo!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNoonan is simply a poseur. In point of fact, Paul VI did not wear such a mitre but one which did indeed have a diadem-like row at its base, in addition to the 'stripes'. The striped mitre is simply an absurd ideological imposition by amateurs.
ReplyDeleteDear John
ReplyDeleteI suppose you are fighting the wrong fight. When so many Catholics around the world still being deprived from the Traditional Latin-Gregorian Mass, I don't understand your insistence in this specific point of the Papal Tiara.
May be as you live in Rome, you don't feel the problem of the Traditional Mass as the majority of the Catholics in the remaining world. Certainly, I love the Tiara, but Mass should be for now our main priority.
Um, Paul VI never wore that mitre.
ReplyDeletei completely agree with @Mauro Cappelari. i live in Vienna and the situation here is terrible.
ReplyDeleteWhile I have to attend N.O. masses where people stand during the moment of transsubstantiation, the tiara and the sedia will remain the very last of my concerns.
With so many ways to admire Pope Paul VI I just don't get how the removal of the Tiara from yet another place is in keeping with the lens of continuity the Holy Father so often speaks of. As for its' return in future Pontificates, well wasn't that also said by Paul VI about the Tiara itself, and the Papal Coronation Ceremony? A slippery slope indeed.
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