Obligation

After the year in which the English and Welsh Bishops realised that, even if they themselves did not much like Pope Benedict XVI, he was nevertheless good for business, will they now reverse their petulant outburst of belated Seventies trendiness when he was elected and restore the Epiphany, Ascension Day and Corpus Christi to their proper days? After all, Archbishop Vincent Nichols was enthroned on the real Ascension Day.