Who WIll Put an End to This?

Instead of strenghtening core competencies like prayer, wisdom, mysticism, meaning of life, vocation, #German #bishops are fixated on #sexuality.
They fail to talk with passion about the Eucharist and Christ - but about #sex they do talk without end. That is telling. #Catholic https://t.co/ZzHFFVdtQl

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) June 16, 2021

The German Churches Need to Be Purified

German bishops are angry that the Pope is still Catholic and defends the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist.
It's embarrassing to read to what level German theology has sunk and how much it sacrificed. As Ladaria rightly says it's practically Protestant. #CatholicTwitter https://t.co/yzcJ1hbUab

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) October 9, 2020

Which Spirit in German Bishops?

The Vatican’s doctrinal office has expressed concern about an intercommunion proposal linked to the president of the German bishops’ conference. https://t.co/7PD87tLHXi

— Luke Coppen (@LukeCoppen) September 22, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Such an endorsement by David Bentley Hart casts doubts on his personal orthodoxy, as if his dogmatic speculation on universalism wasn't enough. The description provided for the book and the background of some of the contributors render all those who are contributing suspect, even though some (Fr. Andrew Louth?) may be just presenting "the other side" of the argument. Is this something open for discussion? Do any of the Chalcedonian Orthodox clerics make the claim that the ordination of women to the presbyterate and episcopate is beyond the bounds of discussion and possibility? From the reports I have read, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware has capitaulted and embraced the position that it is open to discussion. Are there any Orthodox bishops willing to cut the innovators off from communion? I suspect the Greeks are too weak to do so.

Wipf and Stock: Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice, eds. Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya

Douglas Farrow on Bishop Schneider's and Archbishop Viganò's Objections Regarding Vatican II

Dethroning Christ? The error at the root of the Viganò controversy (Part I)

Part 2

Farrow seems to admit this much:

Now, surely there is nothing wrong with a document promulgated in a political context being on its way to a political rather than an evangelical end, so long as that end is understood to be proximate rather than ultimate. There’s the rub, however. For the Abu Dhabi Declaration seems to be evangelically deficient in a way no political aim can justify. Its call to “come together in the vast space of spiritual, human and shared social values,” and to do so in such as way as to avoid “unproductive discussions,” might reasonably be taken to rule out the very thing Paul was doing on Mars Hill!

But Farrow cannot get beyond the parameters set by Latin ecclesiology, taken by Latins to be dogma:

When we keep this in mind, we can see more easily that to give the answer we ought to give, the answer we must give if we do not intend to be schismatic – the answer that Vatican II was indeed an authentic ecumenical council, engaged in the work of God and of the magisterium of the Church under God – is not to commit ourselves to the untenable notion that its fathers were uniformly faithful or that its documents, despite the flaws of their authors, were themselves essentially flawless.

As a Latin he must accept the claim by Rome that Vatican II is an ecumenical council. Because he must accept that, he must uphold the hermeneutic of continuity, much as Benedict XVI. Part 2 is better in so far as he responds to certain misconceptions (held by some Latin integralists and Latin traditionalists) regarding nature of the Kingship of Christ.

Straying from Tradition?

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Review: “For the Life of the World” (Ecumenical Patriarchate Social Document)

The Church or the Patriarchate of Rome?

Does he recognize that there is a difference?

America/CNS: Cardinal Marx: church needs to seriously discuss celibacy, role of women and sexual morality

October Is Around the Corner...

And Edward Pentin asks: Have Synods Become Vehicles for Legitimizing Heterodoxy?