The Latin Traditionalists Are Picking Up On This

Sandro Magister: Everyone To the School of the Antichrist. But One Cardinal Rebels

Crux News: Pope to launch global educational pact next year by Inés San Martín

“...however noble such aims as ‘human fraternity’ and ‘world peace’ may be, they cannot be promoted at the cost of relativizing the truth of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and His Church.” —Bishop Athanasius Schneider https://t.co/hDl7vUYANl

— Natalie Rosamund (@autumnspright) September 15, 2019

JUST IN from @HolySeePress : ‘The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity announced the inclusion of Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig, Senior Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation’; Zenit’s @DeborahLubov & @RosaDieAlcolea spoke to Cardinal-elect Guixot, Vatican’s top interreligious official pic.twitter.com/gD7Tv9FpiP

— Zenit English (@zenitenglish) September 18, 2019

At the New York Public Library with prominent world interfaith leaders celebrating a historic new document on Human Fraternity & a bold new project linking a mosque, church & synagogue in Abu Dhabi to foster understanding, education, respect & peace. #humanfraternity #interfaith pic.twitter.com/6LSgKewN2s

— Eric Greenberg (@EricJGreenberg1) September 20, 2019

#WCC Programme Executive Rev. Douglas Leonard attended the New York event on the "Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living together" signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, in Abu Dhabi. Here with Cardinal Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot. #peace pic.twitter.com/Az8FHt7Rfh

— World Council of Churches (WCC) (@Oikoumene) September 21, 2019

The first public event hosted by the Higher Committee implementing the Document on #HumanFraternity takes place at the #NewYorkCity Public Library on Friday, bringing together hundreds of people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. https://t.co/oSwYSu6ogy

— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) September 21, 2019

Human Fraternity Meeting

The UAE Higher Committee of Human Fraternity has raised the number of members to 8, with the recent addition to the board of Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig. https://t.co/tQxxFisRRz

— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) September 18, 2019

The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity welcomes a Rabbi member https://t.co/VljidMbCrO pic.twitter.com/2UTesfJBIL

— The Leader Assumpta (@Assumptaleader) September 21, 2019

The first meeting of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity was recently hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church https://t.co/w9aN2nn0WI pic.twitter.com/nGGUhOG8aG

— Arab News (@arabnews) September 16, 2019

INTERVIEW: Cardinal Guixot Discusses Fruits of Pope & Grand Imam’s Abu Dhabi Document on Human Fraternity

Reveals Project Being Launched in Abu Dhabi Soon to Be Presented in New York, While Speaking to ZENIT in #Madrid2019 @santegidionews #pazsinfronterashttps://t.co/XL2kEvPZP6

— Deborah Castellano Lubov (@DeborahLubov) September 19, 2019

H.E Obaid Salem Al Zaabi : "The document on #Human_Fraternity involves
Governments, UN institutions, Academic and Research Centers and Civil Society
Organizations with the aim to incorporate the values of tolerance and
coexistence in their policies, decisions, legislative texts" pic.twitter.com/7goZVnnCcH

— UAE MISSION GENEVA (@UAEMISSIONGENF) September 17, 2019

“Ramana Maharshi, one of greatest Indian saints in modern times, was asked: ‘How should we treat others?’ His reply: ‘THERE ARE NO OTHERS.’ This is the true definition of Human Fraternity.”

I spoke today at an inter-faith meet for world peace in #Madrid Spain.@santegidionews pic.twitter.com/dl8pCTpC92

— Sudheendra Kulkarni (@SudheenKulkarni) September 17, 2019

Committee implementing goals in Document on Human Fraternity meet for first time - Vatican News https://t.co/wYCPgUbgmG

— John M. Martinez, Ph.d. (@JohnMMartinezP1) September 12, 2019

Skorka says the Abu Dhabi doc on human fraternity co-signed by Francis and the Grand Imam of Egypt in Feb could do for Xn-Muslim relations what Nostra Aetate did for Xn-Jewish dialogue. https://t.co/TE5ydK4K5p

— Austen Ivereigh (@austeni) September 14, 2019

The Document on Human Fraternity, which I signed today in Abu Dhabi with my brother the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together. https://t.co/74Ig3XOPzw

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) February 4, 2019

Mary Ann Glendon on World Over

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Part 2 of Trabbic's Series

CWR: Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2

The Natural Law

So, the natures of things determine what’s good and bad for them, what they should pursue and avoid and, again, that is true for us too. Our nature, in this sense, is the “law” that we should live by. When Thomas talks about the “law of nature” (lex naturalis) or “natural law” this is partly what he has in mind. In part our nature is this law, but our reason, insofar as it grasps what is naturally good for us, and directs us to pursue it, belongs to natural law too.

Thomas’s account of natural law, however, does not stop there. For Thomas, our nature and our reason are created by God. Hence, he teaches that the natural law ultimately comes from God. By following the natural law – which is nothing more than living in conformity with our nature – we are following God’s will. When we act against it, we are acting against God. Thomas calls the “plan” for creation as it exists in God’s “mind” the “eternal law.” This plan not only includes our nature and purpose but the nature and purpose of everything else too. To say that the natural law comes from God is the same as saying that it is derived from the eternal law. What Thomas calls the “divine law” (lex divina) is likewise derived from the eternal law. I will come back to that in a moment.

And then something on happiness...

The “knowing” of God that we are talking about in both the natural and supernatural cases is an act of contemplatio or “contemplation.” For Thomists, Jordan Aumann explains, contemplation is “a type of knowledge accompanied by delight and a certain degree of reason’s wonder before the object contemplated.”⁴ Contemplation can be pretty pedestrian, as when I appreciate the dark gold color of the scotch in my glass, or more exalted, as when I marvel at the starry sky. But the beauty of creation can and should be a ladder we ascend to the divine.

Our lives as human persons and as Christians should have divine contemplation at their center. This is what we are ultimately ordered to by nature and by grace. That doesn’t mean that we should all pack up and move to a monastery. Most basically in means a way of life faithful Catholics already live: one of regular prayer and participation in the Church’s liturgy marked in general by an appreciative and celebratory attitude toward reality, including the reality of other people.⁵ As Thomas uses the term, vita contemplativa or “contemplative life” does not necessarily refer to the life of cloistered religious. As Aumann points out, it is something that we all practice – laypeople, religious, and priests – inasmuch as we engage in contemplative acts.⁶

Samaa-Mozarbe

Related:

Divine Sovereignty

Fr. Stephen Freeman: The Sacrament of the Soul

In point of fact – there is no such thing as “secular.” All things are created by God, and exist only because they are sustained by His good will. Everything points towards God and participates in God who is the “Only Truly Existing One.” When the Orthodox speak of the world as a “sacrament,” it is simply stating this fact.

But Unity in What Form?

Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops: Executive Committee of the Assembly of Bishops Recommits to Orthodox Unity in the USA

Kyrie Eleison!

Pravmir

When Papal Positivism Replaces Tradition

Is it linked to the Jesuits, and what St. Ignatius of Loyola recommended in his Spiritual Exercises? "We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchical Church defines it thus."

Robert Fastiggi:

7. Feser’s rejection of the new teaching of the Church on the death penalty is in direct violation of what Lumen Gentium, 25 teaches about the need to adhere to teachings of the ordinary papal Magisterium “with religious submission of mind and will.” His rejection also violates canon 752 of the 1983 CIC and no. 892 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Feser and his followers do not seem to understand the “argument from authority” that applies to teachings of the ordinary papal magisterium and judgments of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Catholics who support the new formulation of CCC 2267 are being faithful Catholics. Prof. Feser’s attempt to put such faithful Catholics and the Pope on the defensive suggests that he believes he has more authority than the Roman Pontiff. If he has difficulty accepting the Church’s new teaching on the death penalty he should, in a spirit of humility, make every effort to understand the teaching “with an evangelical spirit and with a profound desire to resolve his difficulties” (CDF, Donum, Vertiatis, 30). I have no difficulty with the new teaching. I hope and pray that Prof. Feser and his followers will overcome their difficulties.

Again, Fastiggi does not realize that he undermines his own case if his claim that capital punishment is a defined [Roman Catholic] dogma is true. If it isn't, then it isn't part of Tradition and any claim pertaining to its moral goodness or evil or permissibility must be a conclusion of moral theology and evaluated in accordance with the logic of sound reasoning. Justifying a claim based on an appeal to the person who said it or his authority (in this case, Pope Francis) would be an appeal to authority, as his authority does not extend to competence with respect to matters of moral theology per se. Perhaps Fastiggi is too attached to his own Latin opinions regarding the role of the pope to realize this.

Regardless of where they stand on various issues, Latins, traditionalists, "conservatives," or "progressives" will not let go of their belief in the [exaggerated] authority of the pope.

Did Eastern Catholics Really Need the Pope to Tell Them This?

If so, what does it say about how they perceive themselves? If they didn't, could he have handled this better?

Pope to Eastern Catholic Churches: love heals divisions
Pope urges unity among Eastern Churches of Europe by Claire Lesegretain
In times of conflict, religious should set an example and promote reconciliation, Francis tells bishops

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO EASTERN CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF EUROPE

And then there is the Code of Canons of Eastern Churches, whose own legitimacy is doubtful given that they were promulgated from Rome and approved by Rome, and there is one code issued to all non-Latin Churches, as if they could be grouped together solely for being non-Latin, even if only for the sake of "convenience."

Pope Francis: 'Canon law is essential for ecumenical dialogue'



Intratext

If He's No Theologian

is he a historian or a sociologist? Maybe it isn't so easy as he thinks it is.

Body, Soul, and Spirit?

1 Thessalonians 5:23
Hebrews 4:12

David Clayton poses a question:


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Someone points to Rosmini as having some things to say.


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Does Scheeben discuss this as well?

What is the correlation between the spirit of man and the Holy Spirit?

OCA: Orthodox Spirituality
Forming the Soul -- Spirit, Soul, and Body
"The unity of the human person: The body-soul relationship in Orthodox Theology? by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia

A Thomist perspective: Do we have spirit, soul, and body or just soul and body? by Dr Taylor Marshall

John Pepino to Give a Talk in Vancouver

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Eastern Christian Books: The Very Long History of Vatican II

Eastern Christian Books: The Very Long History of Vatican II

The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform by Shaun Blanchard
When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II Hardcover by John W. O'Malley

Bishop Robert Barron on Henri de Lubac

CWR Dispatch: Cardinal Etchegaray, Henri de Lubac, and Vatican II by Bishop Robert Barron
What is still very much the needful thing today is the de Lubac attitude.

Are both left-wing and right-wing rejections of Vatican II on display today? Just go on the Catholic new media space and you’ll find the question readily answered. What is still very much the needful thing is the de Lubac attitude: deep commitment to the texts of Vatican II, openness to ecumenical conversation, a willingness to dialogue with the culture (without caving in to it), reverence for the tradition without a stifling traditionalism.

Often because of the post hoc fallacy, Ressourcement theology is being ignored by Latin traditionalists. Others merely are committed to their version of Thomism, and critique Ressourcement theology accordingly. Another approach taken by some contemporary Thomists is to take what was good in the return of the sources and employ it in Thomism, hence Ressourcement Thomism. Do Latins have what is necessary to reset their ecclesial tradition and teaching? Arguably that is what the best of Ressourcement theology was trying to do, though whether they were able to do so is questionable, as those who were orthodox had to stay within the bounds of second millenium Latin "dogma," rather than question whether those teachings by Latin councils were actually definitive.

Viganò vs. The Vatican: The Uncensored Testimony of the Italian Journalist Who Helped Break the Story by Marco Tosatti

CWR: The case for Viganò’s case against the Vatican by James Baresel

Eastern Christian Books: George Demacopoulos on Colonizing Crusaders

Eastern Christian Books: George Demacopoulos on Colonizing Crusaders

More on Parish Low Mass Not Being Silent Mass

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Three Questions for Feser's Critics on the Question of Capital Punishment

CWR: Three questions for Catholic opponents of capital punishment by Dr. Edward Feser

When one reads Pope Francis’s statements about the death penalty carefully, it turns out to be difficult to interpret them in a way that would make assent to them binding on Catholics.

Chalcedonian Orthodox...

Triumphalism? Stubbornness?


The “Smoking Gun” of Non-Chalcedonian Christianity by Fr. Alexander Webster

Has it been established that certain Coptic authorities are monothelites? Or are they being misunderstood, just as their miaphysitism is misunderstood as monophysitism?

Instead of engaging in long-distance polemics, would it not be better to seek face-to-face dialogue with others, or if that is not possible, to abstain from commenting on the ongoing dialogue and wait until the duly-appointed representatives of the various churches have done their work? After all, other Orthodox do recognize that the Oriental, or non-Chalcedonian Orthodox, are not heretical. Should we at least not talk to them and ask them their reasons why, rather than engaging in a hermeneutics of suspicion?





And then there is the so-called "heresy" of ecumenism... when it is the same as relativism or indifference to truth then it should be condemned as such, rather than as "ecumenism." What are we doing to live in accord with Christ's prayer that "they may be one"?

Dyothelitism
Monergism and Monothelitism
Monophysitism Reconsidered

The Nicene Creed