Was it enough?

What were the causes for the evangelization of South America by the Jesuits not being effective? Interference by the secular authorities?

Thomistic Institute at Stanford

Monday, May 13: A lecture by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. (Georgetown University)

Icons of God

Should a Pope Emeritus Have Any Voice?

Sandro Magister: When Benedict Entrusted His “Notes” To Francis. An Additional Detail - LifeSiteNews

Altieri on Curial Reform

CWR: Despite much-hyped reform, new Curia remains a governing apparatus by Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva [...]

Christos Anesti

Fr. Seraphim Dedes

A New Dicastery for Evangelization?

1P5: Vatican “Super Dicastery”: A Papal Promise Fulfilled?

John 20:19-25

Illumination

It is good to see adult converts; certainly has me thinking again about the question of initiating all babies, children, and teenagers into the Christian life without discernment by the pastor.

Keunwoo Kwon Reviews Justice as a Virtue

 Reading Religion

While this book is an excellent work crafted by a first-rate scholar, this reader has a minor quibble about an omission rather than a commission. In this volume Porter does not address the issue of “burdened virtue” raised by Lisa Tessman in her 2005 Burdened Virtues (Oxford University Press). Since Porter discusses with nuance the complicated relationship between justice and eudaemonia in chapter 5, it is a little bit of a surprise that Tessman’s well-noted challenge to the Aristotelian moral tradition is entirely absent in this chapter. To what extent would Aquinas acknowledge the contingent connection between virtue and flourishing? Is it legitimate to see the virtue of justice as a mean in an Aristotelian sense, given that there seems to be no mean for an intense sensitivity to others’ suffering in this tragic world? Would Aquinas’s emphasis on supernatural grace and his eschatology based upon the Exitus-Reditus framework somehow help resolve this tension? These questions deserve a serious response from Porter, especially when her work implicitly touches upon the issues treated with care by Tessman.

Pascha, Resurrection, and Faith

Church Life: What Does Belief in the Resurrection Look Like? by David Fagerberg

The Importance of "Natural Philosophy"

Public Discourse: A Natural Philosopher’s Lament By John G. Brungardt

Pascha Vigil in Moscow

The Jerusalem Fire

Cardinal Müller on Renewal

CNA: Cardinal Müller: To renew the Church we must be guided by her faith, morals - First Things: Benedict and His Critics

The Byzantine Paschal Hour

here

The Light of Christ

Gerald J. Russello Reviews Aquinas and the Market

CWR Dispatch: Cui bono? Bringing Thomistic thought to bear on modern economics by Gerald J. Russello

In her new book, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld makes a welcome contribution to a distinctive, Catholic way of looking at economics.

Two Designs for Notre Dame

Prof Jens Zimmerman on 'The Hermeneutical Significance of Tradition'

Revd Prof Nikolaos Loudovikos on 'Bringing New Spirit to the Old Letter'

Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell

St. Thomas on Galatians

Union of Uzhhorod

Orientale Lumen XXIII

A Clarification?

But according to whom?

Sandro Magister: The Two Paschas of Jews and Christians. A Previously Unpublished Letter By the Pope Emeritus

Fr. Constantine Simon

The Eponymous Flower

World Premiere

Paschal Canon

American Orthodox Christians and Their Connection with Russia Through Music - PATRAM

Dr Alexis Torrance: "The Concept of the Person in Orthodox Theology"

A. Edward Siecienski's Dissertation

The use of Maximus the Confessor's writing on the filioque at the Council of Ferrara -Florence (1438--1439) by A. Edward Siecienski, Fordham University

A Blue Halo?

Athos

Icons of Holy Week

A Reason for Evangelization?

Liberals, statists, and non-believers will not care about the Christian genealogy of rights and rights talk, just as they don't really care about Roman Law or the Common Law, except insofar as it supports their ideology.

RCP: Recovering the Christian Foundations of Human Rights by Peter Berkowitz

Letter of Bishop Milan

In Hungary...

Christ is risen!

Cappella Romana

More Psaltikon

On Notre Dame Cathedral

full episode

"Contextual Moral Theology"

Sandro Magister: On Ratzinger’s “Notes” There Is War Among Theologians. A Back and Forth

"Passover" Meal

CWR Dispatch: When was the Last Supper? by Dr. Randall B. Smith
Was the Last Supper a Passover meal or some sort of pre-Passover “farewell” meal? Does John have the story right, or do Matthew, Mark, and Luke?

Latin Theology of the Priesthood

HPR: Patristic Ressourcement in the Theology of the Priesthood by Dr. Joshua Madden

June 4

The Mystical Supper

Much Ado About Nothing?

Sandro Magister: Between the Two Popes There Is “Fracture.” The Silence of Francis Against Benedict

Has Pope Francis Covered This in His Wednesday Catechesis yet?

Touchstone Mag: Editing Jesus
John M. McCarthy on the Implications of Changing the Pater Noster

Something to Re-Visit

The catecheses by Pope Francis on the Lord's Prayer

CNA: Pope Francis: Christ’s glory is found in suffering for love

Eternal Memory

Aleteia: Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., noted political philosopher, dead at 91

A Holy Week Soundtrack from Cappella Romana

Justice

TouchstoneMag: Deliver Us From Evil: Justice Demands an Assessment of Injustice by Anthony Esolen

Ars Gratia Artis

CNA: Omaha artist paints one-of-a-kind Paschal candles

Adam DeVille Comments on Ratzinger's Letter

Ratzinger's Guilty Conscience

Miserere mei, Deus - Allegri - Tenebrae

Fr. Cantalamessa's 2019 Series of Lenten Homilies

First Lenten Homily
Second Lenten Homily
Third Lenten Homily

Interview with John Michael Boyer

More Apologetics-Based Catechesis?

Crisis: A Remedy for the Catechetical Poverty of Our Time by Christian Browne

How about something that is based on presenting salvation history through the Roman liturgy tradition and Sacred Scripture? Or would that be too much to ask of the Pauline Missal?

Opportunities for Latin Traditionalists

Sts. Leander and Isidore of Seville, Fulgentius, and Florentina

Pravmir: Sainthood, A Family Affair: How One Family Ended Persecution and Heresy in the Visigothic Kingdom by JOHN MORRIS

Robert Louis Wilken on the Origin of Religious Freedom

Law and Liberty: Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

download

This Would Be a Shock to Latin Sensibilities

Pray for France

SVOTS

"I really care about the Seminary and firmly believe in the importance of sound theological education. St. Vladimir’s has never been just 'the OCA Seminary.'" --Fr. David Barr (SVOTS Class of 1983).
Read more: https://t.co/ogDvz5sQCN pic.twitter.com/heRI9DM5zH

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (@stvlads) April 12, 2019

Christopher Altieri on Benedict XVI's Essay

CWR Dispatch: The problem with Benedict’s essay by Christopher R. Altieri

Sr. Vassa Opines

A Memory of Walter Ciszek, SJ

When Father Walter Ciszek celebrated Easter in Soviet Russia

More from Psaltikon

Fr. Paul Mariani, SJ on Cardinal Zen's Book

For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in China

Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong: Fighter, Teacher, Risk-Taker by Fr. Paul Mariani, S.J.
The book For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in China is not for the faint of heart. For—as any fighter—Cardinal Zen calls out his adversaries.

Related:
The Price of Catholic Unity by MARY SPENCER
Cardinal Zen In New Book… Vatican’s China Strategy Was All About Compromise And Surrender by Maike Hickson

Carl Olson Comments

CWR: Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete by Carl E. Olson
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...]

Black Hole Photo

NASA (via Fr. Z)

Adaptable to the Byzantine Rite?

Keble College chapel, Oxford. Still not feeling it for the medieval reredos. But Latin traditionalists generally don't care much for anything that smacks of hybridization, even if there was a common Romano-Byzantine style for some time, from which one could develop organically.

Psaltikon

Venice in the East

Benedict XVI on the Sexual Abuse Scandal

CWR/CNA: Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse’
Essay
The following is a previously unpublished essay from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: On February 21 to 24, at the invitation of Pope Francis, the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences gathered at the Vatican to [...]


Joseph Ratzinger On Sexual Abuse in the Church: “The Ultimate Reason Lies in the Absence of God”

Commentary:
Archbishop Chaput
R. R. Reno

Gender in Genesis: Father Lawrence Farley

Liturgy in the "Vernacular"?

Fr. Christopher Mannion

And a rsponse at NLM:

The Importance of Memorization

Watchmen of the Night

Reading Tones in the Roman Rite

here

Synodality and Ecumenical Councils

OrthoChristian: Contextualizing the Authority of the Ecumenical Councils: Some Thoughts on Met. Hierotheos’s Comments by Anna Stickles

What then of the incomplete work of the fourth ecumenical council?

A Talk by Archimandrite Zacharias at STOTS

2018

The Opening of the Saint Silouan's Monastery

From 2015

Olivier-Thomas Venard // Qu'appelle-t-on prier ?

More with Olivier Thomas Venard, O.P.

SVOTS Chorale

The Icon

Ancient Faith Blogs: 112. The Icon, Part Two – Iconoclasm, the Seventh Council, and after that by Fr. Bill

Fr. Lawrence Farley on the Charismatic "Renewal"

Ancient Faith Blogs: Why I Am No Longer a Charismatic by Fr. Lawrence Farley

Rorate Caeli: “That which thou dost, do quickly” for the Masquerade is over by Francesco Lamendola
H/T Riscossa Cristiana

Pieces of Biblical History

OrthoChristian/Times of Israel: Tiny First Temple find could be first proof of aide to biblical King Josiah by Amanda Borschel-Dan

Accepting the Narrative and Running With It

Church Life: Faith and the Expanding Universe of Georges Lemaître by Jonathan Lunine

On October 29th of last year, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to recommend renaming Hubble’s Law the “Hubble-Lemaître Law.” That such a vote would take place today—during a...

A Poetic Christ: Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language, and Reality by Olivier-Thomas Venard, O.P.

T&T Clark

The Gospels Manifest a Poetic Christ by Timothy O'Malley


Fr. Venard's Aquinas Lecture for the DSPT in 2016: Life, Language, and Christ: A Thomistic Approach

Rules for the Intellectual Life

CWR: Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part I by Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin
For those Christians with an intellectual calling, Fr. Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges, OP (1863-1948), offers a guide, a method, and a spirituality for that life.

Still a Latinocentric View of Things

Crisis Magazine: Is Vatican II Irrelevant Now? by David G. Bonagura Jr.

Does this mean that the actual teachings of Vatican II will fade into oblivion? Not in the short term, since the Council’s documents and approach have been incorporated into the extensive and widely consulted Catechism of the Catholic Church, which itself was created to rein in the wayward Spirit of Vatican II.

Related:
The Illusory “Success” of Francis, Under the Lens of a Sociologist of Religion (Il Paradosso di Papa Francesco: La Secolarizzazione Tra Boom Religioso e Crisi del Cristianesimo by Luca Diotallevi)

Fr. Alexander Men on the Cross

Pravmir: The Cross Sweetens the Bitterness of Life by ARCHPRIEST ALEXANDER MEN (+1990)
In the morning, finding at least a minute in the midst of your normal daily tasks to stand before His countenance, you will feel how He is gazing at you lovingly and summoning you to labor. God’s blessing is with you in labor during every minute of life. The Kingdom of God, which is coming in power, is established in the heart, for Christ said: The Kingdom of God is within us – come and drink the living water of the Kingdom of Heaven

Mother Maria

Pravmir: Mother Maria: Love Without End
IRENE ARCHOS
"No amount of thought will ever result in any greater formulation than the three words, 'Love one another,' so long as it is love to ...

Eastern Christian Books: How Apostate Was Julian?

Eastern Christian Books: How Apostate Was Julian?

WITNESS - Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria

More on the 50th Annivesary of the Promulgation of the Pauline Missal

Fr. Z: It was 50 years ago today… Paul VI’s Apostolic Constitution “Missale Romanum”

Responding to Gender Ideology

Part 1
Part 2

A Memorial!

Rorate Caeli: Exactly 50 Years Ago, Paul VI tried to destroy the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

7. Cena dominica sive Missa est sacra synaxis seu congregatio populi Dei in unum convenientis, sacerdote praeside, ad memoriale Domini celebrandum. Quare de sanctae Ecclesiae locali congregatione eminenter valet promissio Christi: "Ubi sunt duo vel tres congregati in nomine meo, ibi sum in medio eorum" (Mt. 18, 20).


"7. The Lord's Supper, or Mass, is the sacred meeting or congregation of the people of God assembled, the priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord. For this reason, Christ's promise applies eminently to such a local gathering of holy Church: 'Where two or three come together in my name, there am I in their midst' (Mt. 18:20)."

I don't recall Fr. Bouyer criticizing the General Instruction of the Roman Missal itself, rather than the Roman Missal, but I am guessing that para 7 would not be problematic for him. After all, what is to prevent a memorial from also being the re-presentation of the sacrifice of Christ, through the ministry of the Church (CCC 611, 1323, 1330, 1341)? (At the moment I am accepting Latin theology and expression on this point for the purposes of this post.) Granted, Pope Paul VI does not seem to say this explicitly, but even if he doesn't, it doesn't imply that he denies that the Eucharist is a sacrifice.

Of course, it may be that he had reasons for not elaborating on sacrifice and it is not clear that the received Latin tradition on what sacrifice means, and how Christ's Passion and Death constitute a sacrifice, are correct.

Related:
The Sacrifice of the Mass by Fr. William G. Most
The Sacramental Life of the Orthodox Church by Rev. Alciviadis C. Calivas, Th.D.
The Liturgy in the Thought of Benedict XVI by Giles R. Dimock
Peter Leithart: The Non-Eucharist Eucharist

A Jézus-ima

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Interview

(via Byz TX - article)

The Prayer of St. Ephrem

Axios!

Related:

Praying with Icons

Dominus Iesus

A Story from Richmond Eastern Catholic Church

The Light Magazine: Bridging Protestantism and Eastern Catholic Orthodoxy by Julia Cheung

Byzantine Churches In Constantinople

"A Stumbling Block to the Jews, Folly to the Gentiles"

OrthoChristian: THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS by Georgiy Velikanov

Deuteronomy 21: 22-23

Ancient Faith: Cursed is Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree by Fr. Stephen De Young

An Interview with Cassian Folsom, OSB

Episode 5 of the Square Notes Podcast