Praise God for our wonderful Pope! I wonder how the sedevacantists out there took this news story from the Rorate Caeli blog:
No concessions to the spirit of this world
It is above all necessary that we become "experts" in listening to God, and credible examples of a holiness which is translated into faithfulness to the Gospelwithout concessions to the spirit of the world. As Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, zealous Pastor of this Archdiocese for several decades, and now buried in your Cathedral, "religious life moves around God, and offers everything before God, and therefore becomes a testimony of God and an appeal from God" (August 15, 1953).
At the end of the meeting, the Pope prayed before the burial place of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri (in the picture, Cardinal Siri in 1958).
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Theres is some more information and a picture of the pope praying before Siri's tomb in this post at NLM: http://thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/2008/05/pope-in-genoa.html (update at the bottom of the post)
Tim,
I know what a sedevacantist is but I don't get the reference to the "empty see" viewpoint with respect to Cardinal Siri. Please explain.
First anon, thanks for the update. There are a lot of great pictures at that post.
Second anon,
There are a group of sedevacantists (for those who don't know, they believe there is no currently validly elected Pope and thus the seat is vacant) who believe that Cardinal Siri was elected Pope at the 1958 Conclave and then also in the 1963 Conclave. Their theory is that he was forced to refuse, or abdicate, in favor of first John XXIII and then Paul VI. This theory is made all the more enticing because it allows the holder to dismiss the problems wrought in the aftermath of Vatican II, and because it implicates the Freemasons. John XXIII was actually the title of an Avignon anti-pope and thus no Pope had taken the name John since the "Babylonian exile". Was John XXIII sending a message about his legitimacy? See, you can get drawn into these things.
The significance of Benedict so publicly honoring him is, in my opinion, twofold. First, Siri was a wonderfully holy and orthodox Cardinal, which is a good enough reason. Secondly, by so doing the Pope reclaims his memory for the Church, and not just as the subject of a theory held by few.
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