Sunday, April 30, 2017

CWR: The Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity by Carl E. Olson

“Where secularism takes God out of the public forum,” says Peter D. Beaulieu, author of Beyond Secularism and Jihad, “Islam takes the public forum out of man.”

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Friday, April 28, 2017

Pope Francis in Egypt

CWR Dispatch and CNA: Full text of joint statement by Pope Francis and Tawadros II
"The tragic experiences and the blood shed by our faithful who were persecuted and killed for the sole reason of being Christian, remind us all the more that the ecumenism of martyrdom unites us and encourages us along the way to peace and reconciliation."



A Birthday Present for Benedict XVI



Not Gothic... Latin traditionalists!

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Monday, April 24, 2017

Amusing

That the reviewer labelled Dreher a formal schismatic. And he finds the solution to the crisis facing Latin Catholic churches in the West to be Latin traditionalism. (Of course he would!)

Rorate Caeli: Review: The Benedict Option

Saturday, April 22, 2017

A Thought

Do belief in the prophecies of St. Paisios and dreams of a resurgent Constantinople hinder restoration of communion between the Churches?

Perhaps the chastisement of Constantinople is not yet complete.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Kyrie Eleison!

Rorate Caeli: Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, Rest in Peace
- Tu es Sacerdos in aeternum! -

Thursday, April 13, 2017

1P5: Cardinal Burke on the Dubia, Malta, Freemasons, Pope Francis, & President Trump

What should be done about James Martin, SJ?

Crisis: New Ways Ministry’s “Fr. James Martin Effect” by Deacon Jim Russell

Is it possible to reform the Society of Jesus from the bottom up? Or does its Constitutions require a top-bottom reform? If these rogue priests cannot be disciplined by the order then the order should be suppressed.

What is the new Latin emphasis?

If it is no longer the Passion, is it a sentimental or Pelagian understanding of the Resurrection?

Crisis: Revisiting Jim Bishop’s The Day Christ Died by Michael De Sapio

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The "Council" of Crete



The announcement of the lecture:

Bishop Nicholas Samra on the Ministries of the Parish



I think the "socialization" aspect is rather incomplete and needs to be developed at length so that there is a proper discussion of the friendship that should exist among parishioners of the same parish.

Getting Rid of the Lavender Mafia Might Help

Along with the network that purposely weeds out orthodox seminarians. But these steps don't address all of the problems.

Saturday, April 08, 2017

Friday, April 07, 2017

Thursday, April 06, 2017

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Pravoslavie: The Week of the Veneration of the Cross by Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)
This is an article by St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia that has never been republished. It was written when he was still an archimandrite at the Kholm theological seminary, which is now located in the territory of Poland, and published in the periodical, Beseda (Discussion), printed in Warsaw.

From 2013

Pemptousia: Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos: “Maximus the Confessor’s Eucharistic Ontology”

Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos, “A Eucharistic Ontology: Maximus the Confessor’s Eschatological Ontology of Being as Dialogical Reciprocity”, transl. by Elizabeth Theokritoff, 2010: Holy Cross Orthodox Press.

Alas, the English Translation of His Book is Out of Print

Rorate Caeli: The Church and Asmodeus - Part 3 (and the fallacy of Theology of the Body) by Don Pietro Leone

3. ‘THEOLOGY OF THE BODY’

Faithful attending Pope John Paul II’s Angelus discourses from September 1979 –November 1984 and hoping for catechism or pious disquisitions, would surely have been disappointed. Instead they were to hear him propound in all freedom his personal theories of sexual morality. We shall here briefly examine two tenets of the personalistic ‘Theology of the Body’, having already discussed the theory in detail in our book.

But is his reading of John Paul II's Theology of the Body correct?

Sunday, April 02, 2017

Saturday, April 01, 2017

Fr. Bertacchini's Letter

Sandro Magister: On the Pope’s Desk, a "Memorandum" Against the General of the Jesuits. For Near Heresy

Fr. Bertacchini is supposedly a Jesuit of high caliber, and yet he can assert this:
"Such a grave statement should be reasoned out at length and in depth, because it is indeed possible to admit error in a narrative detail; but to call into question the veracity of doctrinal teachings of Jesus is another matter."

Fr. Hunwicke on the Celebrity Cult of the Papacy

Fr. Hunwicke: Celebrity Pontiffs

Pope Francis doesn't like personality cults, especially as applied to himself, and yet he does not he see that his actions lend themselves to supporting a personality cult? Another inconsistency to be explained by his modest intellect?