Where Is the Ecclesia Dei Document?
Another conversation with a Vatican official… Plus, still more on the upcoming encyclical… And, true joy… By Dr. Robert Moynihan, reporting from Rome Today was warmer than yesterday, but it is still quite cool compared to the usual June heat. Perhaps it will stay cool through the weekend, when so many bishops will come to Rome to receive the “pallium” from the Pope on Monday, June 29… Let’s hope so. ======================= A very important document was supposed to come out last Friday, June 19. It didn’t come out Friday. Or Saturday. Or Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or today. And behind this delay, there is a story. ======================= What document am I talking about? Not the long-awaited social encyclical! That is still coming, trundling along, due to be signed June 29, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. This morning, in the press office, I was talking to one of my colleagues, who said she thinks they’ve already started printing the encyclical. “Why do you t
