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Friday, 4 May 2007

Bishop-elect Peter Elliott

My mobile device came up trumps on Monday when I found that I could access the internet on the fly while in Rome. Looking as I often do at the Vatican News Service, I was delighted to see that Mgr Peter Elliott has been named as an auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne.

I met Mgr Elliott when I was a student in Rome and he was living at the Casa del Clero in the Via della Scrofa. At that time he was studying for a doctorate on marriage and the family. His book "What God has Joined" is an excellent study of the Theology of Marriage in the light of Pope John Paul's teaching.

4 comments:

Mac McLernon said...

He does bear an uncanny (and unfortunate) resemblance to Fr Ted... or am I the only person to think so??
;-)

bernadette said...

Who's Father Ted ? is he a good priest ?

Mac McLernon said...

Sorry Bernadette, it's the title character in a rather bad sitcom...

john said...

His recommendations in "Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite" that every parish have one sung Mass with incense on a Sunday and a procession on Easter Morning rather betrsy his Anglican roots. He is probably a voice crying in the wilderness, if the RC Church in England is anything to go by.

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