Theology of Education

With what competence, experience, or wisdom to gather doxa and present them as tenets?

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, highlighted the tenets of Catholic education and the modern challenges facing educators in a pastoral letter on Tuesday. https://t.co/7DsYzVFEsq

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) September 3, 2024

Gelasian Dyarchy Still a Thing for Some

New audiobook: Pope Gelasius' famous letter Famuli Vestrae Pietatis, which laid out the Church's doctrine of two complementary powers, spiritual and temporal - the spiritual having the primacy.

Thanks to @josias_rex for letting us use their translation!https://t.co/BkFyIMSwoG pic.twitter.com/MieRkg6D6L

— Thomas Mirus (@CatholicPods) August 22, 2024

Maybe

Do Bishops Have Rights vis-à-vis the Pope? Does the Pope Have Duties vis-à-vis the Bishops? https://t.co/vRA333plO3 pic.twitter.com/lVqhzmrFG9

— NLM (@NLMblog) May 16, 2024

Philip Lawler on Conscientious Objection to Vaccination

Vaccination and conscience: a challenge to Church authority | Catholic Culture https://t.co/gWskD6AwEi

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) August 24, 2021

I Will Have to Read the Actual Condemnation of Action Française

Namely, the sympathies that the greater part of French Catholic intellectuals (Maritain, many of the Thomist philosophers, Bernanos etc.) harbored for the Action Française until it was condemned; the attitude of Italian Catholic culture towards Fascism; …

— Augusto Del Noce (@AugustoDelNoce) June 11, 2021

Was there actual heresy involved?

Sanctions by Whom?

Who wields "authority" to sanction these offenders, presbyteral or episcopal?

One of the more interesting additions to the new penal law is that it is now a canonical crime to administer sacraments to those prohibited by law. This was not explicit before. Thus, ministers giving communion to individuals in manifest grave sin may be subject to sanctions

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) June 2, 2021

Maybe the Faithful Should Be Doing More than Praying

An old and wise priest I knew, used to joke, "The Holy Ghost is not responsible for ecclesiastical appointments." That is true, but it is not an excuse for neglecting to pray for a good outcome.

— Fr Timothy Finigan (@FatherTF) February 20, 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

Two-Pronged Attack

But Latins have already capitulated to feminism; how can they resist the latest from feminists? For too long they relied on institutional scale and now they will suffer the consequences of a church of numbers.

One of the Catholic Church’s most visible nuns has said the push for women’s priestly ordination in the Catholic Church points to a deeper question that needs to be asked and stressed the need to separate ordained ministry from decision-making.https://t.co/1MgjFxK0cC

— Crux (@Crux) February 2, 2021

The Magisterium of the Orthodox Church

Deserving of a Popular Cult

And the modern Roman saint-making machine wasn't involved in his canonization so there's that for the credibility of the cult.

But this is a take that will be unpopular among the Latin integralists: St. Thomas Becket was a victim of a theology of ecclesial authority that hadn't been fully worked out and yet was nonetheless asserted and practiced as dogma. Was a conflict between a Christian secular authority (especially in the form of a over-grasping monarchy) and ecclesial authority inevitable? Probably. Could it have been resolved by other means? What if the Church had not assisted in the development of Christian monarchy in the first place, and had chosen a different path?

I found this post from The Josias which perfectly reflects how St. Thomas Becket wouuld be portrayed by Latin integralists:

St. Thomas Becket, Integralisthttps://t.co/rNWrwLkX3y

— The Josias (@josias_rex) December 30, 2020

A Proper Role for the Universal Primate?

The Holy Father #PopeFrancis has erected a new eparchy for Byzantine-Ukrainians in Gdansk. This is a region where Ukrainians were displaced in large numbers from their ancestral lands after the Second World War. https://t.co/1vDBGkd1vO

— Fr Alexander Laschuk (@byzkanonist) November 25, 2020

A localist, communion-ecclesiological understanding of jurisdiction would focus more on the people seeking to have a presbyter/bishop of their own rite petitioning for acceptance from the Christian majority of a different rite who live in an area? (Not that the majority would have a right to reject their request, but a request out of charity and politeness protocol/etiquette.) And the local presbyteral synod would welcome the new presbyter/bishop to their synod. Something like that...

Two I Will Have to Revisit

Join us TODAY at 9:30 am EDT, for a VERY interesting interview w Fr. Prof. Cyril Hovorun, on "Why Does the Church Have a Hierarchy?" Chat LIVE with Fr. Cyril, me, and zillions of viewers as the video premieres, @ this link: https://t.co/iUrb41MUmb pic.twitter.com/9sBqJm1J6X

— Coffee with Sr.Vassa (@coffeesvassa) September 19, 2020

Join me today, @ 9:30 am EDT (and 2:30 pm UK-time) for a VERY interesting conversation w Fr. John Behr, on "Creation & Gender"! He'll be chatting LIVE with us at the premiere, so you can ask him questions/comment. Don't miss it: https://t.co/3pbaW9U5JI pic.twitter.com/xs02b4JiJK

— Coffee with Sr.Vassa (@coffeesvassa) September 26, 2020

But Do Bishops Really have This Authority?

@USCCB, please mandate Friday abstinence from meat and establish rogation and ember days. These are simple steps of penance, witness to Christ, praying for deliverance from pandemic and disaster, care for the environment, etc. that fall under the purview of bishops' conferences.

— Fr Dylan Schrader (@FrDylanSchrader) November 16, 2020

OT practices and legislation may not be a good foundation for arguing that such an authority exists for Christian presbyters and bishops.

Byzantine Triumphalism

How much more do they have to lose before they learn the lesson? Lord have mercy. All jurisdictions will have to re-evaluate their notions of primacy and ecclesial authority before there can be full reconciliation. Matthew 20:25.

"The Church of Constantinople was blessed by God to be the guardian of the Tradition of the Apostles and the Fathers" #orthodox_times @EcuPatriarch

https://t.co/yQQ1syRyZZ

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) November 8, 2020

Pope Innocent III and the Growth of the Papacy

Medieval Geopolitics: How a Pope shares in the divine power of God by @aalatham https://t.co/vakRpbzFu9

— Medievalists.net (@Medievalists) October 16, 2020

Medievalists.net

The Crisis of the Abuse of Power and Christian Reconciliation

The Roman Position

The liberal left and right find it difficult to submit to the social teaching of the Church

The former refuses to obey Her teaching in matters of sexuality and the right to life.

The latter refuses to obey in matters of economic policy.

Nevertheless, she is Mother and Teacher. pic.twitter.com/fT291akkZS

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) September 17, 2020

Jeff Mirus on Latin Integralism

The return of “Integralism”? https://t.co/Zrf4XaZkQJ @FormTheCulture

— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) August 27, 2020

Recognizing that the Church is the arbiter not only of Divine Revelation but of what God reveals through creation in what we call the Natural Law, I am more inclined to want to get the natural law right, to study Catholic social teaching with great care, and to develop a political party that combines the best and most comprehensive recognition of the corresponding principles that ought to animate both the social order and government itself.

Latins claim this as a part of the authority of the Church (see CCC 2036 and Dignitatis Humane 14), but where is the warrant within Apostolic Tradition? Setting aside those secondary precepts which are not directly directly through reasoning but are determined by reason or are applications of reason in finding a convention to order some state of affairs (e.g. driving on which side of the road), there are several points to be made.

1. There are precepts of Natural Law that have nonetheless been revealed directly by God as well. These have been passed down as a part of Sacred Tradition. So bishops can be said to be arbiters of the Natural Law, in so far as they have received it as a part of God's revelation to Israel and in Christ. But does that revelation include all possible secondary precepts?
2. Knowing apart from Divine Revelation the "fullness" of the Natural Law requires not intellectual virtue but moral virtue. Do bishops have a special charism from the Holy Spirit that replaces the need for this and the habit of synderesis and the logical reasoning required as well? This is a more dubious claim.

That the Church possesses the authority to teach the precepts of the Natural Law is probably a long-standing Latin theological opinion. (Going back to Trent if not some time before, during the medieval period?) I'd like to read a treatise or manual that show some nuance in presenting this. Can the patriarchate of Rome cite one of its "ecumenical councils" as an authority espousing this opinon? I am doubtful, since the CCC makes no such reference.

See the old CE entry on the Natural Law.

An Integralist Response to Dante

Dante is correct to state that temporal authority does not flow from the Church per se but rather comes directly from God. However, the lower must be subsumed or elevated into the higher. The natural end now serves the supernatural. The passions obey the intellect.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020

If it is true that the Church is the head of the City of God on earth, then all lesser societies are subject to that highest one, just as it is Her mission to baptize all legitimate societies that they may come together with the Church to form the triumphant Heavenly City.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020