03 October 2018

Archbishop Enthroned (1963)

The enthronement of Bishop (later Cardinal) John Carmel Heenan as Archbishop of Winchester. His Eminence was a prominent Traditionalist at the Council, opposing Gaudium et spes, of which he said that it was, 'written by clerics with no knowledge of the world'.

He supported the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, despite accusations that it was 'unoecumenical'. It was also he that requested the 'Agatha Christie Indult' from Pope Paul VI, for the allowance of the Latin Mass, with the mutilations of 1965 and 1967, to be celebrated occasionally in England and Wales before the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei granted permission for the unmutilated Tridentine Mass.


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