Tuesday, September 30, 2014
One Jurisdiction to Unite Them All...
Are You Greek? Unifying the Orthodox Church in the United States by Andrew Stephen Damick (via ByzTX)
Monday, September 29, 2014
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Divine Liturgy With H.H. Pope Tawadros II - Priesthood Ordination of Maged Mourad
I question whether I will ever get used to the clanging of cymbals and such during Divine Liturgy.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Benedictine v. Jesuit
NLM: Benedictines vs Jesuits Revisited: Further Thoughts on Models of Liturgy in the Church
Fr. Christopher writes: "The devotio moderna in the late medieval period, as it focused increasingly on the humanity of Christ, and less the Kyrios of glory, took a turn to the more intimate, private and devotional."
Is there a connection between this and Jungmann's insistance on the proper emphasis on Christ as man in liturgical prayer?
Fr. Christopher writes: "The devotio moderna in the late medieval period, as it focused increasingly on the humanity of Christ, and less the Kyrios of glory, took a turn to the more intimate, private and devotional."
Is there a connection between this and Jungmann's insistance on the proper emphasis on Christ as man in liturgical prayer?
Dom Alcuin Reid on the Monastic Office
NLM: Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic Office by Fr. Thomas Kocik
Archbishop Cyril Vasil on Byzantine Marriage and Oikonomia
Sandro Magister: Divorce and Second Marriages. The compliant “Oikonomia” of the Orthodox Churches
Compliant toward the bullying of the civil tribunals, from the times of the Byzantine empire. The past and present of the matrimonial practice of the Orthodox according to the reconstruction of an authority in the field, Archbishop Cyril Vasil, secretary of the congregation for the Oriental Churches
by Sandro Magister
"Up until the end of the ninth century, it was still possible to contract a civil marriage, but by the year 895, on the basis of Emperor Leo VI’s Novella 89, the Church was declared the only institution with legal competence for the celebration of matrimony. In this way, the priestly blessing became a necessary part of the legal act of marriage."
Can we say that Byzantine dogma on the priest being the minister of the sacrament of marriage is a theological opinion and not fixed in the deposit of faith?
Fr. Z
Compliant toward the bullying of the civil tribunals, from the times of the Byzantine empire. The past and present of the matrimonial practice of the Orthodox according to the reconstruction of an authority in the field, Archbishop Cyril Vasil, secretary of the congregation for the Oriental Churches
by Sandro Magister
"Up until the end of the ninth century, it was still possible to contract a civil marriage, but by the year 895, on the basis of Emperor Leo VI’s Novella 89, the Church was declared the only institution with legal competence for the celebration of matrimony. In this way, the priestly blessing became a necessary part of the legal act of marriage."
Can we say that Byzantine dogma on the priest being the minister of the sacrament of marriage is a theological opinion and not fixed in the deposit of faith?
Fr. Z
Friday, September 26, 2014
Anniversaries
One Anniversary that Should be an Occasion of Self-Reflection and Criticism.
Post by News.va English.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Affirmative Action Decided at the Top?
Greater representation by women on the International Theological Commission.
The Chant Café: Revolutionary appointments by Kathleen Pluth
Vatican Radio
Thomistica.net
Catholic Herald
Beitbart
NCReporter
The Chant Café: Revolutionary appointments by Kathleen Pluth
Vatican Radio
Thomistica.net
Catholic Herald
Beitbart
NCReporter
Slowly...
Do the Orthodox taken offense when they see the liturgy celebrated like this? Or do they have second thoughts about dialogue?
Monday, September 22, 2014
Fessio v. Kasper
CWR: Is Pope Francis upset about an Ignatius Press book?
Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, responds to claims and complaints made by Cardinal Walter Kasper
And from Sandro Magister...
Scola: Four Solutions for the Divorced and Remarried
And the fourth is the newest: to entrust the verification of the validity of a marriage directly to the bishop or one of his delegates, in a nonjudicial forum. With the archbishop of the Milan, there are now ten cardinals who have taken the field against the ideas of Kasper-Bergoglio
The Betting Is Open on the Next Synod
For the first time in decades, bishops and cardinals will get back together to clash over radically opposed ideas, in particular on the yes or no to communion for the divorced and remarried. It is Pope Francis who wanted to reopen the dispute. With an unpredictable outcome
Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, responds to claims and complaints made by Cardinal Walter Kasper
And from Sandro Magister...
Scola: Four Solutions for the Divorced and Remarried
And the fourth is the newest: to entrust the verification of the validity of a marriage directly to the bishop or one of his delegates, in a nonjudicial forum. With the archbishop of the Milan, there are now ten cardinals who have taken the field against the ideas of Kasper-Bergoglio
The Betting Is Open on the Next Synod
For the first time in decades, bishops and cardinals will get back together to clash over radically opposed ideas, in particular on the yes or no to communion for the divorced and remarried. It is Pope Francis who wanted to reopen the dispute. With an unpredictable outcome
Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Why Be Constrained by Federalism?
Why not ask for more, independence? Catholics seem to be unable or unwilling to contemplate what is necessary political reform. The identity that has emerged from consolidation and statism is hard to shake.
One Dominican: Godzblogz
One Dominican: Godzblogz
Friday, September 19, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Some Hope it Will Be "Extraordinary"
Family: After the preventive “wars”, it’s over to the Synod
Pamphlets, books and interviews have focused on the question of communion for remarried divorcees. But there are many more questions that remain open and are to be discussed by the Synod fathers
ANDREA TORNIELLI
Pamphlets, books and interviews have focused on the question of communion for remarried divorcees. But there are many more questions that remain open and are to be discussed by the Synod fathers
ANDREA TORNIELLI
What to think of this?
Vatican Diary / Exile to Malta for Cardinal Burke by Sandro Magister
As the impeccable prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, he is on the verge of being demoted to the purely honorary role of “patron” of an order of knighthood. At the behest of Pope Francis
Related:
Reigning and “Emeritus.” The Enigma of the Two Popes by Sandro Magister
It is an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church. With many unknowns still unresolved, and with serious risks already in play. An analysis by Roberto de Mattei
As the impeccable prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, he is on the verge of being demoted to the purely honorary role of “patron” of an order of knighthood. At the behest of Pope Francis
Related:
Reigning and “Emeritus.” The Enigma of the Two Popes by Sandro Magister
It is an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church. With many unknowns still unresolved, and with serious risks already in play. An analysis by Roberto de Mattei
Monday, September 15, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
$150
Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils 2 Volume Set
And the Latin reckoning/counting of ecumenical councils...
And the Latin reckoning/counting of ecumenical councils...
Monday, September 08, 2014
Sunday, September 07, 2014
The Road to Canonization
The Lamentable Decision to Suspend Sheen’s Cause by FATHER ROGER J. LANDRY
Donald Prudlo, Thank Goodness Fulton Sheen’s Cause Has Been Suspended
Some responses to Prudlo in the combox at NLM: “Thank Goodness Fulton Sheen’s Cause Has Been Suspended” - An Excellent Article on Canonizations
I agree with much of Professor Prudlo's post, though I would probably dispute the link between canonization and papal infallibility:
Donald Prudlo, Thank Goodness Fulton Sheen’s Cause Has Been Suspended
Some responses to Prudlo in the combox at NLM: “Thank Goodness Fulton Sheen’s Cause Has Been Suspended” - An Excellent Article on Canonizations
I agree with much of Professor Prudlo's post, though I would probably dispute the link between canonization and papal infallibility:
This is encouraging in the age of fast-tracked canonizations which tend to minimize the gravity of such elevations, bound up as they are with historical affirmations of papal infallibility. It is good to slow processes, indeed sometimes stop them altogether. Cults should arise out of spontaneous devotion and proper ecclesial supervision and care. Saints should be “from the ground up” as it were. Saints were never intended to be top-down impositions of models of life or patterns of holiness dictated by mere authority. Cults should be allowed to spread organically, and sometimes be permitted to die out of their own accord, with careful shepherding by Church authorities. This is why the old fifty-year rule was in place. This should permit enough time to make sure that a cult was genuine, that it was a result of the unfolding of an authentic discernment of holiness in the life of the Church, and provides the needed leisure for the operations of the various complex tasks associated with presenting a cause. The Church should not conform itself to this age of instant gratification, with its attendant shallowness. The old rule also provided a cooling-off period so that people too intimately involved in the life and career of the potential saint had been mostly laid in their graves. Unfortunately a kind of historical chauvinism afflicts many today, thinking that they either live in the darkest times in Church history or in the “broad, sunlit uplands” of Pollyanna-ish progressivism. The endurance of a cult long after the principals are dead is a telling mark of its validity.
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Ignatius Press Pushing Symbolon
“The Symbolon video series proclaims the truth and beauty of the Catholic faith..." - competition with Fr. Robert Barron's Catholicism? I bet it will be more "Roman" than Catholic, with a heavy emphasis on the Latin perspective. To be expected, perhaps, but I do not think it is the ideal.
Friday, September 05, 2014
Thursday, September 04, 2014
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Papal Affirmative Action
Müller: More women to join the international theological commission
The Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano’s” monthly women’s insert interviews the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “We are not misogynists!” he says, revealing that the number of women in the Congregation will go from two to five or six, at the Pope’s request
The Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano’s” monthly women’s insert interviews the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “We are not misogynists!” he says, revealing that the number of women in the Congregation will go from two to five or six, at the Pope’s request
What will come of the October synod?
Rorate Caeli: Editorial: The Synod of Bishops and Divine Law by Roberto de Mattei (via Pertinacious Papist)
Monday, September 01, 2014
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