This Friday, on the eve of the consistory for the creation of new Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, the Pope will host a meeting of all Cardinals who are in Rome (including the ones recently named and who will be created on Saturday) - just as he did on the eve of his first consistory and which he mentions in Summorum Pontificum ("having listened to the views of the Cardinal Fathers of the Consistory of 22 March 2006").
The general topic of the meeting, as several news outlets have revealed, will be "ecumenism", and there will certainly be a discussion on the Ravenna Document. However, Paolo Luigi Rodari reports today in Il Riformista that:
These "many requests" include Anglicans of the Anglican Communion (that is, in "communion" with Canterbury), but they are most probably related to the famous letter of the Traditional Anglican Communion (a part of the "Continuing movement" in Anglicanism) "to the See of Rome seeking full, corporate, sacramental union".
Rodari also mentions that the problem of liturgical abuses may be addressed, including the "disobedience in the application of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum" and also "the 'super-power' of the Episcopal Conferences and their ever-growing bureaucratization".
The general topic of the meeting, as several news outlets have revealed, will be "ecumenism", and there will certainly be a discussion on the Ravenna Document. However, Paolo Luigi Rodari reports today in Il Riformista that:
"Other than relations with the Orthodox, tomorrow's meeting will include a discussion dedicated to the Protestants and, in particular, to Anglicans. The Pontiff wishes that the many requests of return to the Catholic Church put forward in the last few months by exponents of Anglicanism be closely evaluated."
Rodari also mentions that the problem of liturgical abuses may be addressed, including the "disobedience in the application of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum" and also "the 'super-power' of the Episcopal Conferences and their ever-growing bureaucratization".
