Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 2 of 2)

3: The JUDGMENT and DECREE OF THE University of Oxford Past in their Convocation July 21. 1683, Oxford, 1683

is available through the Oxford Text Archive (O.T.A.), Google Books, The London Gazette (Issue No. 1845, July 23-26, 1683), and the respective websites of The British Library, The University of Michigan Library, and The National Archives:







JUDICIUM & DECRETUM Universitatis Oxoniensis Latum in Convocatione habita Jul. 21. An. 1683 (Oxford, 1683) seems to be the original Latin of that Judgment, and is available through the O.T.A. and the aforementioned library websites:




Early English Books Online has the Latin book as well as two editions of the English translation; one of those two editions was published in Dublin and does not seem to be available elsewhere online, and the other edition is the one linked hereinbefore.

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, regalism, St. Robert Bellarmine

4: Some recent objectionable pronouncements from The Pope

4.1: God "does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws."

That quotation comes from the translated text of "the homily delivered by the Pope during the celebration of Vespers", contained in The Holy See Press Office's Daily Bulletin item "Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Francis in Canada – Vespers with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Québec, 28.07.2022":


The quotation is part of this excerpt:
God does not want us to be slaves, but sons and daughters; he does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws. No! He created us to be free, and he asks us to be mature and responsible persons in life and in society.
Judging by the source for that Daily Bulletin item, I think that that passage is a translation of this section of the original Spanish of the homily in question:
Dios, en efecto, no nos quiere esclavos sino hijos, no quiere decidir en nuestro lugar ni oprimirnos con un poder sagrado en un mundo gobernado por leyes religiosas. No, Él nos ha creado libres y nos pide que seamos personas adultas, personas responsables en la vida y en la sociedad.
["Viaggio Apostolico di Sua Santità Francesco in Canada – Vespri con i Vescovi, i Sacerdoti, i Diaconi, i Consacrati, i Seminaristi e gli Operatori Pastorali presso la Cattedrale di Notre-Dame de Québec, 28.07.2022",
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/07/28/0563/01130.html]
The only media organ to highlight the anti-Integralist aspect of that homily seems to be Religion News Service, in the "News" report "God does not want ‘a world governed by religious laws,’ pope tells Canadian clergy", by Claire Giangravé, dated July 28, 2022:


Ms Giangravé was also the journalist who, during that Apostolic Journey's return-flight press conference, asked His Holiness about changing Church teaching on contraceptives:



Returning to that homily, I note that one of the problems with The Pope's anti-Integralism is that, pace His Holiness, a loving and conscientious Catholic father will, as far as reasonably possible within the scope of his authority, impose religious rules on his sons and daughters, and a loving and conscientious Catholic civil sovereign will, likewise, impose religious laws on his subjects; that is the paternal, not despotic, thing to do.

Labels: Confessional State, Francis Bergoglio, law, morals, politics, secularism

4.2: "the death penalty is morally inadmissible," and "in the light of the Gospel, the death penalty is unacceptable"

Those quotations come from the translation, in The Holy See Press Office's Daily Bulletin item "Video of the Holy Father with the prayer intention for the month of September, disseminated via the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, 31.08.2022", of the transcript of H.H. The Pope's message in that video:


The quotations seems to translate "moralmente, la pena di morte è inadeguata" and "alla luce del Vangelo, la pena di morte è inammissibile", respectively, judging by that Daily Bulletin item's original Italian ("Video del Santo Padre con l’intenzione di preghiera per il mese di settembre diffusa attraverso la Rete Mondiale di Preghiera del Papa, 31.08.2022", in which the transcript's original language is given as Italian, too):


The official website of The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network has these pages, available through its "Resources" page: "September prayer intention 2022", "2022–9–TPV–Script–For the abolition of the death penalty", "2022–09–TPV–Press Release-For the abolition of the death penalty", "TPV- For the abolition of the death penalty – Infographic", and "TPV – For the abolition of the death penalty – Poster", with the content of those pages also available, in one form or another, on the page "SEPTEMBER | For the abolition of the death penalty" (dated, like the preceding resources, August 31, 2022) at the official website of an operation—namely, The Pope Video—of that Network:







Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, morals

5: "it was this act[, namely, the Quebec Act,] that moved the Americans to form and attend the First Continental Congress in the first place!"

That quotation (excluding my square-bracketed interpolation) comes from this passage (excluding my ellipses (a square-bracketed one indicates the omission of a whole paragraph) and square-bracketed interpolation) in "Catholicism and the American Founding", by Prof. Bradley J. Birzer, July 3, 2021, at The Catholic World Report's website:
… With the passage of the Quebec Act, they[, namely, "French Roman Catholics living in Quebec",] could practice their Catholicism without political hinderance. Parliament saw this act, rightfully, as a liberal act, having next to nothing to do with the affairs of the Protestants to the south. Americans in the thirteen colonies not only saw it as a direct attack on their faith, but it was this act that moved the Americans to form and attend the First Continental Congress in the first place!

[…]

Not surprisingly, given the terrible (if ridiculous) reputation that Catholics had among Protestants as being the evil purveyors of darkness, oppression, and superstition, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pass a condemnation of liberalization of restrictions on Roman Catholics. With the almost unanimous backing of the New England colonies, the condemnation found widespread support, especially from John Jay and Alexander Hamilton of New York, and Richard Lee of Virginia.

[…]

It must be noted that the First Continental Congress was not some fly-by-night revolutionary committee of radicals. It was, instead, the very first meeting of the U.S. Congress, still, institutionally, of course, in existence through this day.
See also item 2 of my "Notes: Thursday, January 1-Monday, February 2, 2015": 


(The Spectator link there is now dead, but this one works:


and that book review is also available, in one form or another, through Trove, Gale Research Complete, NewsBank, and ProQuest. As for item 2's hyperlinked comment by me at a now-removed blog, that comment contained a quotation from The Catholic Church in the Modern World: A Survey from the French Revolution to the present, by Mr. E. E. Y. Hales, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in association with Burns & Oates, London, 1958.)

Labels: Canada, Church and State, history, U.S.A.

6: "Not until the mid-1960s did people begin to realise that, in addition to the concentration camps, there were also death camps whose only purpose was extermination. Even the term "the Holocaust" was not used widely until the late 70s."

That quotation comes from the book review "Germany's African colony was a laboratory for genocide", by Jim Davidson, on p. 24 of the "Review" supplement of The Weekend Australian, January 15-16, 2011, available through ProQuest and NewsBank, and formerly available at The Australian's website via this U.R.L.:


Prof. Davidson is or at least has been a professional historian, according to the profiles on him from AustLit, Trove, Melbourne University, and what seems to have been at the time of that book review his most recent book (namely, A Three-Cornered Life, available through ProQuest's Ebook Central): 





Labels: history, Jews, Nazism

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor, A.D. 2022

Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 1 of 2)

1: Garter Day 2022

(In this item, the Court Circular is my source for any information for which I do not indicate any other source.) On Monday, June 13, 2022, in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle, Her late Majesty The Queen held a Chapter of The Most Noble Order of the Garter which was attended by all the current Garter Knights and Ladies except the Strangers. (Lord Inge was "not well enough to attend", according to a "5:33 PM" "Jun 13, 2022" (Sydney time, I think) Tweet from the official Twitter account of the leader of the Anglican sect's branch in Worcester, England:


and died on July 20, 2022, according to Who's Who and the "Heritage" article "Field Marshal The Lord Inge" ("21 JULY 2022") at the official British Army website:


During that Chapter, "Her Majesty invested The Duchess of Cornwall with the Insignia of a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested on the morning of June 1, 2022), "the Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair with the Insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested (and knighted) on June 10, 2022), "and the Baroness Amos with the Insignia of a Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested on June 10, 2022). "The Queen later gave a Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter", with all that day's capitulants present or invited. Finally, that afternoon there was an Installation Service in St. George's Chapel for the installation of the three latest Garter appointees.

That Garter Day was "the first since 2019", according to one of the capitulants—see the "Diary" article "The Bank of England has to act to prevent higher inflation", by "Mervyn King", "16 Jun 2022" (according to the "Diary" contents webpage), The Spectator, "From magazine issue: 18 June 2022" (hyperlink in the original):


(That article is also available through Trove and Gale Research Complete.) Lord King also wrote that there was a procession to St. George's Chapel for the Installation Service, and according to British Royal Family official Twitter and Instagram posts (both dated "Jun 14, 2022" (Sydney time, and the Tweet was from "3:44 AM")) (also embedded in the "News" article "The Royal Week 11-17 June 2022" ("Published 18 June 2022") (s.v. "Monday 13 June")), in the "afternoon the Garter Day procession took place in the grounds of Windsor Castle for the first time in three years":




P.S. After my previous blog post about the Order, I found two more sources for the Garter appointment dates for some of the current Stranger Knights and Ladies. The first source is the wire feed article "New Garter Knights - Prince William" (or "UK Government: New Garter Knights - Prince William"), from M2 PressWIRE, April 23, 2008, available through Gale Research Complete and ProQuest. Its text appears to be essentially that of the Press Release "Appointment to the Order of the Garter" ("Published 22 April 2008"), minus the line after the dateline, plus a list of the Order's then-members and -officers after three paragraphs of "Notes for Editors":


This is the relevant part of that list:
HER MAJESTY MARGRETHE II, QUEEN OF DENMARK, 16th May, 1979. 
HIS MAJESTY CARL XVI GUSTAF, KING OF SWEDEN, 25th May, 1983. 
HIS MAJESTY JUAN CARLOS I, KING OF SPAIN, 17th October, 1988. 
HER MAJESTY BEATRIX, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 28th June, 1989. 
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY AKIHITO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN, 26th May, 1998. 
HIS MAJESTY HARALD V, KING OF NORWAY, 30th May, 2001.
Clearly, that list is not relevantly different from that in my previous Garter-related blog post, nor from that in the Wikipedia page "Talk:Order of the Garter" (s.v. "Holy Roman garter?"):


(Also, that wire feed article gives—without raising any doubts—The Princess Royal's Garter appointment date as "23rd April, 1994". ("Some say 13 June 1994", according to the page "Orders of Chivalry" (s.v. "The Royal Family and the Order of the Garter") at the St. George's Chapel website:


The other source is The Order of the Garter: Its Knights and Stall Plates, 1348-1984 (Vol. 16 of the "HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS RELATING TO ST GEORGE’S CHAPEL") by Grace Holmes, Windsor, 1984, reprinted 1999, at the "Historical Monographs" page of the St. George's Chapel website:



According to that document, The Queen of Denmark was "declared a Lady of the Order 16 May 1979" (and "installed 16 June 1980") (p. 178 (184 in the document reader); see also p. 19 (25)), and The King of Sweden was nominated (and invested) a Knight of the Garter on "25 May 1983" (p. 44 (50)). (That document also says, on p. 7 (13), that the previous "Prince of Wales was held to have become a Knight of the Order upon his creation as Prince in 1958, and his installation in 1969 merely confirmed his status"; perhaps more precisely, His Majesty was
Created Prince of Wales 26 July 1958, and by the Statutes of 10 Jan. 1805 became at the same time a Knight of the Order; inv. and inst. 17 June 1968
[p. 44 (50)])
Labels: Order of the Garter

2: Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Thistle

My last blog post about The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was "Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)" (item 7.2.2):


Since then, the Order has lost one Lady (namely, The late Queen, who died on the 8. ult.), no Stranger Knights, one British Royal Knight (The (1.) Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, 2021), and three other Knights:
  • Sir Eric Anderson, who died on April 22, 2020, according to Who's Who
  • Lord Macfarlane, who died on November 5, 2021, also according to Who's Who
Over the same period, there have been two new Thistle appointees, namely, The Rt. Hon. Lady Elish Angiolini L.T. D.B.E. P.C. K.C. and The Rt. Hon. Prof. Sir George Reid K.T. P.C., with both appointments effective from Friday, June 10, 2022, according to the Press Release "New appointments to The Order of The Thistle", "Published 10 June 2022", available at the British Royal Family's official website:


Going by that Press Release and Who's Who, I note that
  • Lady Elish is a lawyer, apparently serving most notably as Lord Advocate of Scotland between 2006 and 2011 and Solicitor General of Scotland between 2001 and 2006. Currently, her main role seems to be as Principal of St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford.
  • Sir George is a politician (Presiding Officer of The Scottish Parliament seems to have been his most notable political office), international aid director, and academic. His main current role is apparently as a Professorial Teaching Fellow at The University of Stirling.
Consequently, the current Knights and Ladies of The Order of the Thistle are*:

British Royal Knights and Lady:
1: H.M. The King (joined the Order on February 11, 1977, and became King and hence ex-officio Sovereign of the Order on September 8, 2022)
2: H.R.H. The Princess Royal (1987) K.G. K.T. (2000) G.C.V.O. Q.S.O. C.D. A.D.C.
3: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (2022) K.G. K.T. (May 29, 2012) P.C. A.D.C.

Stranger Knights or Ladies: None.

Other Knights and Lady:
1: The Rt. Hon. The (11.) Earl of Elgin (1633, 1968) and (15. Earl of) Kincardine (1647, 1968) K.T. (1981) C.D. J.P.
2: The Rt. Hon. The (13.) Earl of Airlie (1639, 1968) K.T. (November 29, 1985) G.C.V.O. P.C. J.P.
3: The Rt. Hon. The (29.) Earl of Crawford (1398, 1975) and (12. Earl of) Balcarres (1651, 1975) K.T. (November 29, 1996) G.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
4: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Mackay of Clashfern (1979) K.T. (November 27, 1997) P.C. K.C.
5: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1992) K.T. (2000) G.C.M.G.
6: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Steel of Aikwood (1997) K.T. (2004) K.B.E. P.C. D.L.
7: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1999) K.T. (2004) G.C.M.G. P.C.
8: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Cullen of Whitekirk (2003) K.T. (2007) P.C. K.C.
9: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Hope of Craighead (1995) K.T. (2009) P.C. K.C.
10: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Patel (1999) K.T. (2009)
11: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Smith of Kelvin (2008) K.T. (2013) C.H.
12: His Grace The Most Hon. The (10.) Duke of Buccleuch (1663, 2007) and (12. Duke of) Queensberry (1684, 2007) K.T. (2017) K.B.E. C.V.O.
13: Sir Ian Wood K.T. (June 9, 2018) G.B.E.
14: The Rt. Hon. Lady Elish Angiolini L.T. (June 10, 2022) D.B.E. P.C. K.C.
15: The Rt. Hon. Prof. Sir George Reid K.T. (June 10, 2022) P.C.

*unless otherwise indicated, the year given after a title is the year of the creation of that title, and where another year is given after that one, that title is hereditary (and so is a title preceded by an ordinal number), and the latter year is that of the succession to that title; the date after the post-nominal letters K.T. is the date of the appointment to the Order, and where only a year, not a full date, is given, the appointment is to be dated November 30 of that year. The sequence in which I list Thistle Knights or Ladies who were appointed in the same year is that of the relevant Press Releases, Gazette notices, and Court Circular notices, but note that Lord Wilson would precede The Princess Royal in the sequence of all Knights and Ladies listed together (instead of in the three separate categories Royal, Stranger, and other), judging by the wire feed article "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle" (or "UK Government: Appointments to the Order of the Thistle"), from M2 PressWIRE, November 30, 2000, available through Gale Research Complete and ProQuest.

Holyrood Week 2022

On the morning of Thursday, June 30, 2022, "the highest order of chivalry in Scotland was celebrated with a procession and service in central Edinburgh", according to the official Instagram account of the Royal Family:


(That Instagram post is also embedded in the "Day Four" page (s.v. "Order of the Thistle Service") of the undated "Feature" article "Holyrood Week 2022" at the Royal Family's official website: 


That service—in St. Giles' Cathedral, for the Installation of Lady Elish as a Thistle Lady and of Sir George as a Thistle Knight—was attended by The King and The Princess Royal as representatives of The late Queen. (Her late Majesty had already invested Lady Elish with the Insignia of a Thistle Lady on the afternoon of June 23, 2022, and invested Sir George with the Insignia of a Thistle Knight on the afternoon of June 28, 2022, both according to the Court Circular.) Later that day, "The Queen gave a Lunch Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the Most Noble Order of the Thistle", according to the Court Circular (which, like "Holyrood Week 2022", mentioned the attendance of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness at the service in question, with the Court Circular adding that The King and The Princess Royal represented Her late Majesty).

P.S. The late Queen joined the Order by becoming Queen, and hence ex-officio Sovereign of the Order, on February 6, 1952, according to the article "The King mourned: new Queen hailed", attributed to "S.T.S. and A.A.P." (S.T.S. presumably stands for Sunday Telegraph Service—see the article at the right of this one via the following link) from "LONDON, Sat.", The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Sunday, February 10, 1952, p. 2 (the left-hand side):


According to that article, "AS Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II will be-come a member of several orders of chivalry, as well as those to which she already belongs." (The bold type was in the original, as was the dash (because the word 'become' spanned two lines).) The Order of the Garter and The Imperial Order of the Crown of India were named as the latter, and as for the former, the article said that The Order of the Thistle was one of the Orders the Insignias whereof Her late Majesty would wear in the event of full decorations being worn.

Labels: Elish Angiolini, George Reid, Order of the Thistle

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor, A.D. 2022