A Latin Essay on the Presbyterate

Crisis: What You Can Do to Help Our Priests by Fr. Peter M. Stravinskas

The priesthood of Jesus Christ, in which every Christian priest shares, is the source of holiness in the Church and the impetus for all evangelization. Through the ministry of the priest, Christ’s lay faithful are nourished with the Word of Life and the Bread of Life; their sanctification makes possible the sanctification of the world.

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The reverence and respect of the Catholic faithful for their clergy is directed, then, not toward the man himself but toward Christ who is the Priest of the new eternal covenant and toward the priesthood any man derives from Him and shares with Him.

Latin notions of the presbyterate (and its conflation with the priesthood of Christ) and sacrifice, and some clericalism probably are sufficient to explain the resistance to the "priesthood of the faithful" as being "Protestant."

A Voice Recording of Holy Kallinikos of Edessa

LISTEN: The voice of newly-canonized St. Kallinikos of Edessahttps://t.co/RkQiWjs7QJ

After the canonization of St. Kallinikos of Edessa (1919-1984) by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on July 23, many Orthodox began asking if there are any audio archives ... pic.twitter.com/RYzqttaPxe

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) October 12, 2020

Orthodox Times article on the canonization in July.

Mystagogy Resource Center

Will He Resign?

Cardinal Parolin has developed a reputation for taking responsibility for the financial scandals of his subordinates, advancing his own credibility to cover for mistakes made in his department. But he may not have enough credit to cover the bill. https://t.co/N8f39Mfbge

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) October 12, 2020

A Controversial Thesis

The Roots of Christian Hesychasm in Indian Religions

Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume 5https://t.co/OTO0V4GWQT pic.twitter.com/eUt1AYfyo3

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) October 12, 2020

ByzanFest 2020

Greek City Times

The 2020 edition of Byzanfest is the first film festival in history organized exclusively online
.@BasilicaNews #orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/ZEpiLiNRmu

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) October 12, 2020

What movies can be watched online at @Byzanfest #Orthodox film festivalhttps://t.co/G4KvgMYhzp pic.twitter.com/bJgNVwNLl3

— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) October 12, 2020

The Crisis of the Abuse of Power and Christian Reconciliation

Catholic Herald Interview with John Finnis

Very interesting: ‘I was beyond being damaged’: An interview with philosopher John Finnis https://t.co/n7UuCQdCE9

— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) October 7, 2020

Catholic Herald

He has recently written “A Radical Critique of Catholic Social Teaching”, a chapter in a new book on CST (published by Cambridge University Press) which aims to undermine the credibility of the whole concept of that teaching. I tell him that it will be explosive, and he laughs: “No, it won’t, because it’s in a book that costs about £150 … it has been largely ignored because of the cost.”

So, for those of us who can’t afford a copy, the gist is that much of what we understand by Catholic Social Teaching is tendentious, and bishops would do better to focus on teaching fundamental Catholic moral principles instead, leaving their application to laypeople who know what they’re talking about. He is especially irritated by bishops’ conferences that issue lengthy guidelines on, for instance, migration or global warming, which are matters of legitimate debate. On climate change, he thinks “the Pope goes beyond his remit – it’s a massively difficult question of fact”.

Most of what the bishops can usefully say on these subjects can, he says, “be put in a few pages”. The expenditure of energy on lengthy policy statements is “worse than a waste of time; it’s a misdirection of energy”. The bishops’ job is in his view to preach the moral norms because “the urgent duty to be informed by and genuinely respectful of these principles [is] scandalously neglected by many Catholics in public life”. He makes clear that negative rules – “thou shalt not kill,” for instance – are categorical, without exceptions, whereas positive ones, such as loving your neighbour as yourself, are far more nuanced.

I think he is correct regarding contemporary use of RCST in episcopal statements or even papal encyclicals.