Thomas Howard

From our most recent Winter 2020/2021 print edition, a tribute to the late Thomas Howard by Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.https://t.co/IOix8dpbpb

— The European Conservative (@EuroConOfficial) January 29, 2021

The Implications of the Sensus Fidelium

WHEN A BISHOP DEPARTS FROM ‘THE CATHOLIC STANDARD’.... WHAT CAN THE FAITHFUL DO?

In questions concerning the Faith, THE PEOPLE MUST JUDGE his teaching.... pic.twitter.com/siZaqMiIlF

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) February 3, 2021

Prelapsarian Life

The Mystery of Primordial Paradise. Part 1. What is life in Paradise like?https://t.co/QmL0krqZlC

Priest Valery Dukhanin

Divine Revelation tells us that God didn’t place man in the primordial Paradise to relax under the palms and pick the fruit of the trees of Paradise. pic.twitter.com/qnZfuB5ifl

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) February 3, 2021

Where is the Prophet Elijah

Since the prophet’s death is not mentioned in the Old Testament, but the Prophet Elijah ascended up to heaven, one may ask, “Did he die like all people or is he still alive today?"#orthodox_times https://t.co/v6nfekfYOR

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) February 1, 2021

The Duff Cooper Prize for Judith Herrin

Super news! https://t.co/I5HjxBF1mq

— Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (@OxfordByzantine) February 1, 2021

Controversy Over the Jesus Prayer

Related Posts: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on Prayer and The Jesus Prayer.

Is the Jesus Prayer Not a Complete Prayer? A Brief Response to Metropolitan Sotirios of Torontohttps://t.co/pxDJ4TSvaY pic.twitter.com/rJiMGz4L5M

— Mystagogy (@mystagogy1) February 3, 2021

Metropolitan Sotirios represents that overducated but unthinking hyper-rationalism that seeks to take away from tradition, rather than serving tradition. His three purposes of prayer relate to the order of intention, and do not need to be explicitly verbalized for the intentions to be present.

Regarding the name of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, both names together call to the mind the whole Trinity but the name of Jesus by itselfshould remind us of Trinity, as the Son is the Father's accomplishing of salvation for us, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is Gerondism

Simplistic solutions to pastoral problems that require more than quotations from monastics.

... If he doesn’t “love” her, the wife will not obey him. If the man does not heed this word, he is responsible for the woman’s obstinacy. Thus, he has to love her by all means.

+Elder Arsenie (Papacioc), Eternity in the Moment, p. 181 pic.twitter.com/g4Kpd7zfs5

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) February 2, 2021

More pastorally questionable pontificating:

1/2: The woman has to live in harmony with her husband. They have to work together for the supreme goal: salvation. The woman is the heart of the family, as the man is the head of the family. If there’s no heart, the head is empty...

+Elder Arsenie (Papacioc) pic.twitter.com/SGVzVnzXBC

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) February 1, 2021

But What Is He Doing to Promote Liturgical Aestheticism?

The Church evangelizes and is herself evangelized through the beauty of the Liturgy.Let us ask the grace of a personal and authentic encounter with the living Christ in the liturgical celebration,so that our lives might become a spiritual sacrifice offered to God.#GeneralAudience

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) February 3, 2021

Meanwhile...

DECREE on the Celebration of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus in the General Roman Calendarhttps://t.co/I7z9XMTsz1

— Pontifical Academy Life (@PontAcadLife) February 2, 2021

Sertillanges Was Wrong About the Nation(-State)

He wasn't critical enough in his assumptions or first principles.

Note that Sertillanges, as orthodox a Thomist as there ever was, took for granted that there is such a thing as a nation, a family of families, bounded within borders, a reasonable object of natural political attachment.

Modern cosmopolitan theory didn’t enter his mind.

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) February 2, 2021