[Magdalen] German RC bishop speaks boldly

[Joseph Cirou]

Bien Entendu

Her years were many but never the style of a dowager

Her funeral was on YouTube  and her family performed a wonderful Spanish Salve Regina with castanets and fierce pride.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2016 6:35 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] German RC bishop speaks boldly
>
>We like to think of dear Queen Fabiola as the Queen of the Beguines.
>
>Dame Eutrapelia
>
>On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I think Benny may be a tad shorter than Dowager Queen Mary, but they'd
>> make a fetching couple with his red shoes and her jewels that made her look
>> like a walking Christmas Tree. I don't think any other surviving royal
>> spouse has received the title "Dowager" in recent history. I think the last
>> one before Queen Mary was her mother-in-law Queen Alexandra the widow of
>> Edward VII.  (The retired queens in the Netherlands return to their title
>> Princess; I never saw Queen Fabiola of the Belgians referred to as a
>> "Dowager" Queen.--although Mother Egregia knows many monsignors who would
>> resemble that moniker.
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com>
>> >Sent: Feb 13, 2016 4:23 PM
>> >To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> >Subject: Re: [Magdalen] German RC bishop speaks boldly
>> >
>> >I call Benedict the Dowager Pope.
>> >
>> >Grace and peace,
>> >brud
>> >
>> >On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Marion Thompson <
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Carter is definitely productive, "Bennie", um, not so much.  He looked
>> >> dead before he retired.
>> >>
>> >> Marion, a pilgrim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 2/12/2016 8:04 PM, Joseph Cirou wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Maybe you should have qualified it with "voluntarily"  There are Popes
>> >>> who resigned before death, but in the past with circumstances, such as
>> >>> exile for the Pope who was sent to the mines to reconcile with St.
>> >>> Hippolytus (the first antipope) St Celestine who recognized that he was
>> >>> administratively incompetent, Martin V to heal the Great Western
>> Schism and
>> >>> perhaps a few others.
>> >>>
>> >>> Bennie was the first to simply "retire" considering his age, but he
>> will
>> >>> soon join Jimmy Carter and other who are still productive into their
>> 90's
>> >>>
>> >>> Joe
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>
>> >>>> From: Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
>> >>>> Sent: Feb 12, 2016 4:31 PM
>> >>>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] German RC bishop speaks boldly
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Not socially progressive, but he *is* the first Pope ever to retire
>> >>>> before
>> >>>> he died.  He set a precedent there....
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ann
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> >>>> Buffalo, NY
>> >>>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>> >>>> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> B16 is German, but *hardly* progressive! I see him as pretty far
>> right,
>> >>>>> in
>> >>>>> fact.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
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