News on the ROC Catechism

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill told members of the Bishops’ Council about the preparation of the Catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church (via Byz TX)

We Are Special Snowflakes

Are they passing out purple (and red) zuchettos in Cracker Jack boxes these days? Re: De Incarnatione, Latin Christianity goes from one extreme (certain Western theories of atonement) to the other (an absolutist humanism/anthropocentricism).

Go read the Church Fathers on the Divine exchange and deification.

Archbishop José H. Gomez:

The archbishop explained that Advent is a time of waiting for the coming of Christ at Christmas, but it is also an opportunity for God to draw closer to his people in relationship, noting this desire of God to be close to creation is a unique aspect of Christianity.
“And we believe that our God comes to be with us, that he loves us so much that he makes himself one of us – sharing in the whole experience of our humanity, beginning as a little child in a mother’s womb.”

Feser Responds to Griffiths and Hart

Ed Feser: Reply to Griffiths and Hart - Hot Air vs. Capital Punishment: A Reply to Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart

An Orthodox Perspective on Justification

Fr. Schall on Moral Action by Fr. Sokolowski

On the Creases of Being by James V. Schall, S.J.

Monsignor Robert Sokolowski’s insightful Moral Action is, in a sense, is a polemic against the subjectivizing of moral action as if the word or act we put into the world itself had no significance.

Rorate Caeli: Church history and Catholic Social Doctrine on Soundcloud

Heirodeacon Herman Majkrzak: Liturgics for Readers and Choir Directors

via Byz, TX

Remnant Interivew with Bishop Schneider

Michael Matt

Risposte (amichevoli) ai critici di Amoris laetitia

Sandro Magister: Müller and Buttiglione, So Near, So Far

book info

A Traditional Understanding of the Diaconate?

What are some contemporary examples?

Good for RCIA?

Called to Holiness

Psalm 118

Eastern Christian Books: Ultramontanism and Vatican I

Eastern Christian Books: Ultramontanism and Vatican I

Eastern Christian Books: The Pope and the Professor (III)

Eastern Christian Books: The Pope and the Professor (III)

Part 4

Feser Responds to Fastiggi, Again

Yes, traditional Church teaching on capital punishment is definitive

Byz Tx: More anti-fundamentalism pap from OCL

Liturgical Furniture

CWR: Is opposition to the death penalty Thomistic? by Joseph G. Trabbic

Given Pope Francis’s own high regard for St. Thomas (together with the historical papal approbation he has enjoyed) when it comes to doctrinal issues, we might ask how the opposition to the death penalty articulated by the Pope compares with the teaching of the Doctor Communis.

Holy Martyr Edmund

Sandro Magister: The Comeback of the Peripheries. "La Civiltà Cattolica" Also Rages Against Cardinal Sarah

2017 Ratzinger Prize in Theology

Secretary of State

Cardinal Parolin: Dialogue of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches to help them feel unity
Source: TASS Russian News Agency
Cardinal Pietro Parolin | 20 August 2017

Another St. Edmund

Fr. Hunwicke: Nobis in hoc exsilio, Sancte Pater Edmunde ...

Local Liturgical Translations

Cardinal Sarah may be admirable in his defense of the prerogatives of the CDW and a traditional understanding of the authority and role of the Roman Curia, but is he right? Meanwhile even if it is proper to entrust local liturgical translations to local ordinaries, is now the right time for it? And is there a way to embrace liturgical translations without accepting modern nationalism and its fruits? That is what the recognition of national episcopal conferences does, at least -- they are not approving different local translations for a region, but a single uniform one for that region, regardless of the diversity of peoples and cultures in that region.

This problem should have been forestalled in the first millenium, had the Latins and Franks permitted the official use of liturgical texts translated from Latin into hieratic versions of the local tongues.

Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: Friendly Criticism of Rocco Buttiglione’s Theses

A Good Resource for Roman Documents

But it is not the well-developed theological treatise on political life that Roman Catholics need.

CST at its present stage of development is more likely to mislead and confuse than to clarify political questions. (Like the legitimacy of the modern nation-state.)

Newly published Reader in Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes traditional doctrine

St. Gregory the Wonderworker

Anthony Keldellis's Latest Book

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood

American Ecclesial Politics: Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Carl Olson: Archbishop Naumann, Cardinal Cupich, and the mysterious middle finger

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Archbishop Naumann elected US bishops’ pro-life committee chair

Missed This in 2015

Byzantine Empire—or Republic?
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, Anthony Kaldellis, Harvard University Press, 312 pages
By Brian Patrick Mitchell

Hank Hanegraaff Addressing John MacArthur's Comments about the Eastern Orthodox Church

The should be a movie for ultramontanists: Pope Francis, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Non-Magisterial Papal Opinions.

Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: Pope Francis and his “Lutheran turning point”

Part Three

A Jesuit in Poland

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

An Orthodox Perspective on the Reformation

Robert Fastiggi Responds to Ed Feser

CWR

UGCC Embraces the Charismatic Movement

via Byz TX

Sandro Magister: The "Dubia" Are More Alive Than Ever. And Cardinal Müller Is Adding Another All His Own

Eastern Christian Books: In Praise of Robert F. Taft, S.J.

Eastern Christian Books: In Praise of Robert F. Taft, S.J.

Eastern Christian Books: Bulgakov on the Theotokos

Eastern Christian Books: Bulgakov on the Theotokos

Eastern Christian Books: The Pope and the Professor (II)

Eastern Christian Books: The Pope and the Professor (II)

The Plight of Palestinian Christians

The Greek Occupation by Israel Shamir

Joy

Christian joy cannot be faked or forced; it is the gift of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the exercise of agape, ascesis, and suffering in Christ. It is certainly not the same as niceness.

The Chant Cafe: CDW Clarifies: Reports of Ecumenical Missal Unfounded

CWR: Superstition, Dissent, and Scandal? by Dr. Michael Sirilla
A brief defense of Fr. Thomas Weinandy Some pundits from both progressive and orthodox quarters have been quick to criticize and even condemn Fr. Weinandy and his missive to the Pope. Thus, a brief defense of Fr. Weinandy is in order.

Something to See in Tucson

"Msgr." John Strynkowski Responds to Fr. Weinandy

An open letter to Father Weinandy, from his predecessor, on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and Pope Francis

Related:
Hypocrisy marks DiNardo's inadequate response to Weinandy by Michael Sean Winters

Axion Estin

CWR Dispatch: Fr. Weinandy: “The USCCB strongly encouraged me to resign.”

The Origin of All Saints in the Roman Rite?

CWR: Fr. Weinandy was clear and direct. The USCCB was not. by Christopher Altieri

The Bishops had the right – perhaps the duty – to require Fr. Weinandy’s resignation. Nevertheless, the Catholic faithful in every state of life in […]

CWR: Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy explains his critical letter to Pope Francis

Coverage by Sandro Magister

Do the mediocre recognize their limitations?

Fr. Weinandy Comments

Fr. Z: Former theologian of US Bishops Doctrine Committee on Church under Pope Francis - the text of the letter

Liturgical Arts Journal

Lord of the Powers