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Detail, tomb of Pius V in the Sixtin Chapel of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Date 2006. Source Self-photographed Author Jastrow. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons
By Horace Gates, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 27, 2023
Horace Gates is a pseudonym for a Catholic priest based in the Northeast.
Rather like a flame that burns brightest before it is extinguished, there has been a flurry of papal pronouncements, paving the way for what may be a course entrenched, if not irreversible, for his successor to face.
An announcement that Pope Francis wants to be buried in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore was an inevitable reminder that the flax is burning low in this pontificate. Rather like a flame that burns brightest before it is extinguished, there has been a flurry of papal pronouncements, paving the way for what may be a course entrenched, if not irreversible, for his successor to face.
This brings to the mind of those so inclined the dramatic monologue written by Robert Browning in 1845: “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church.” …
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