Posted on 01/29/2015 5:16:13 AM PST by marshmallow
Metropolitan archbishops will no longer receive the pallium at a formal ceremony in Rome following a decision by Pope Francis.
The Pope has decided that each newly-appointed metropolitan archbishops should be formally vested at a cermony held in their own archdiocese, by the Apostolic Nuncio, replacing the tradition of the pontiff presenting the pallium on the Feast of St Peter and St Paul in Rome.
Mgr Guido Marini, the master of liturgical cermonies, wrote in a letter to new archbishops that Pope Francis thought this new initiative would “greatly favour the participation of the local Church.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Symbolic democratization?
So Francis is “outsourcing” the investitures...
Did he get red of the red shoes yet?
How about ditching the dresses and dressing like normal men?
Either that, or he's setting up an account with FedEx.
They should wear blue Jeans? Or the power suits that we see in the Un and the US capitol, which cost more than the cassocks that the pope wears? These are religious dress, as is the costume worn by Jews in Parts of NYC.
NEVER lose sight of the fact that Francis is a Jesuit...ALL our other Popes have been Catholic.
As a matter of fact, he has. They had red shoes in various sizes ready in the Sistine Chapel for when the pope was elected, but Francis declined to put them on and continued to wear his black shoes. John Paul II rarely wore the red shoes, preferring a brown pair, although he was buried in red shoes.
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