Saturday, March 17, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
“Put on the Garments of Christ”: Cyril of Jerusalem and the Origins of Lent
by Carl Sommer (via Insight Scoop)
by Carl Sommer (via Insight Scoop)
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sandro Magister, Gregory the Great Speaks English
The encounter in Rome between Benedict XVI and the primate of the Anglicans has taken place under the banner of the great pope who evangelized Britannia. With Ratzinger and Williams, ecumenism is abandoning tactics and getting to the substance
The encounter in Rome between Benedict XVI and the primate of the Anglicans has taken place under the banner of the great pope who evangelized Britannia. With Ratzinger and Williams, ecumenism is abandoning tactics and getting to the substance
Labels:
Benedict XVI,
ecumenism,
Sandro Magister
Who said the spirit of Latinization was dead?
Rorate Caeli: Are the traditional Eastern liturgies an obstacle to the "New Evangelization"?
When members of ecclesial movements that were formed within the Roman rite enter the East, do they bring a Vatican II chauvinism with them? Do they appeal to the Holy Spirit to claim that their brand of spirituality is superior to what has been sustaining those who have been living under oppression for so long?
When members of ecclesial movements that were formed within the Roman rite enter the East, do they bring a Vatican II chauvinism with them? Do they appeal to the Holy Spirit to claim that their brand of spirituality is superior to what has been sustaining those who have been living under oppression for so long?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
TAC: “The Pope’s Theologian”
An Interview with Rev. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., Theologian of the Papal Household
An Interview with Rev. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., Theologian of the Papal Household
Labels:
Dominicans,
Wojciech Giertych OP
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Been wondering if I should buy some Bertrand de Jouvenel. Liberty Fund publishes some of his books, and ISI has an introductory guide.
Bertrand de Jouvenel’s melancholy liberalism by BRIAN C. ANDERSON
Bertrand de Jouvenel’s melancholy liberalism by BRIAN C. ANDERSON
CNA: Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments by David Kerr
The beginning of the change in order in which sacraments are received by Roman-rite Catholics?
The beginning of the change in order in which sacraments are received by Roman-rite Catholics?
Labels:
sacramental theology,
sacraments
Dr. Fleming's latest: Afghan Justice:
Here in the enlightened West, we know that the purpose of a criminal justice system is two-fold: to rehabilitate the criminal and protect the public. It was not always so. The ancients believed that a criminal act--murder, assault, robbery, rape--put the universe out of joint. The purpose of punishment was to put it right again. Killers are killed, robbers robbed, beaters beaten.
It was not always so simple as "an eye for an eye," and Roman and Christian law made allowances for motives, circumstances, and appropriateness of punishment, but they never forgot the primary purpose of punishment was retribution or, to use a simpler word, vengeance.
Leftist Christians will howl in protest, citing, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," little understanding that the same Lord, according to St. Paul, delegates the power to punish evil to the rulers of the world. Not in vain, Paul declared in an authoritative chapter of Romans, does the ruler hold the sword, nor is it a terror to the good but only to the wicked. It follows that a ruler who casts away the sword on a humanitarian whim is no longer a legitimate ruler. The Church always begged for mercy in specific cases, but never disputed the right and duty of kings and parliaments to execute criminals.
Even Imanuel Kant, who got most things wrong, saw through the lies of all the liberal theories of punishment:
"Judicial punishment can never be used solely as a means to promote some other good for the criminal himself or for society, but instead must in all cases be imposed on a person solely on the ground that he has committed a crime....woe to him who rummages around in the winding paths of a theory of happiness looking for some advantage to be gained by releasing the criminal from punishment or by reducing the amount of it....Even if civil society were to dissolve itself by common agreement of all its members...the last murderer remaining in prison must be executed, so that everyone will duly receive what his actions are worth and so that the bloodguilt thereof will not be fixed on the people because they failed to insist on carrying out the punishment; for if they fail to do so, they may be regarded as accomplices in this public violation of legal justice.”
Labels:
justice,
punishment,
Thomas Fleming
Monday, March 12, 2012
Chiara Luce Badano Movie Trailer
From 2010: Chiara Luce Badano to be Beatified Just 19 Years After Her Death
Beatification of Chiara Luce
Chiara Luce - The Wave
Focolare
From 2010: Chiara Luce Badano to be Beatified Just 19 Years After Her Death
Beatification of Chiara Luce
Chiara Luce - The Wave
Focolare
Rob Vischer reviews Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality by Richard Thompson Ford (via Mirror of Justice)
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Heroes Not Zombies: The Science Delusion. Rupert Sheldrake
Labels:
materialism,
philosophy of science
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