A Good and Faithful Servant... of Bergoglio

Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin encouraged nations to pursue arms control as a means to promote peace and fraternity among all people. https://t.co/ZVXpzMyhqT

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 15, 2021

VATICAN—English Translation of Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s recent speech on “Fratelli Tutti”. https://t.co/YwwGyPoKao pic.twitter.com/8PulALwbae

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) April 15, 2021

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.

What is the Hope for Humanity? A discussion of technology, politics, and theology

N.T. Wright, Peter Thiel, and moderator Ross Douthat

The Latin Traditionalists Are Picking Up On This

Sandro Magister: Everyone To the School of the Antichrist. But One Cardinal Rebels

Crux News: Pope to launch global educational pact next year by Inés San Martín

“...however noble such aims as ‘human fraternity’ and ‘world peace’ may be, they cannot be promoted at the cost of relativizing the truth of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and His Church.” —Bishop Athanasius Schneider https://t.co/hDl7vUYANl

— Natalie Rosamund (@autumnspright) September 15, 2019

JUST IN from @HolySeePress : ‘The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity announced the inclusion of Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig, Senior Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation’; Zenit’s @DeborahLubov & @RosaDieAlcolea spoke to Cardinal-elect Guixot, Vatican’s top interreligious official pic.twitter.com/gD7Tv9FpiP

— Zenit English (@zenitenglish) September 18, 2019

At the New York Public Library with prominent world interfaith leaders celebrating a historic new document on Human Fraternity & a bold new project linking a mosque, church & synagogue in Abu Dhabi to foster understanding, education, respect & peace. #humanfraternity #interfaith pic.twitter.com/6LSgKewN2s

— Eric Greenberg (@EricJGreenberg1) September 20, 2019

#WCC Programme Executive Rev. Douglas Leonard attended the New York event on the "Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living together" signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, in Abu Dhabi. Here with Cardinal Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot. #peace pic.twitter.com/Az8FHt7Rfh

— World Council of Churches (WCC) (@Oikoumene) September 21, 2019

The first public event hosted by the Higher Committee implementing the Document on #HumanFraternity takes place at the #NewYorkCity Public Library on Friday, bringing together hundreds of people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. https://t.co/oSwYSu6ogy

— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) September 21, 2019

Human Fraternity Meeting

The UAE Higher Committee of Human Fraternity has raised the number of members to 8, with the recent addition to the board of Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig. https://t.co/tQxxFisRRz

— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) September 18, 2019

The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity welcomes a Rabbi member https://t.co/VljidMbCrO pic.twitter.com/2UTesfJBIL

— The Leader Assumpta (@Assumptaleader) September 21, 2019

The first meeting of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity was recently hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church https://t.co/w9aN2nn0WI pic.twitter.com/nGGUhOG8aG

— Arab News (@arabnews) September 16, 2019

INTERVIEW: Cardinal Guixot Discusses Fruits of Pope & Grand Imam’s Abu Dhabi Document on Human Fraternity

Reveals Project Being Launched in Abu Dhabi Soon to Be Presented in New York, While Speaking to ZENIT in #Madrid2019 @santegidionews #pazsinfronterashttps://t.co/XL2kEvPZP6

— Deborah Castellano Lubov (@DeborahLubov) September 19, 2019

H.E Obaid Salem Al Zaabi : "The document on #Human_Fraternity involves
Governments, UN institutions, Academic and Research Centers and Civil Society
Organizations with the aim to incorporate the values of tolerance and
coexistence in their policies, decisions, legislative texts" pic.twitter.com/7goZVnnCcH

— UAE MISSION GENEVA (@UAEMISSIONGENF) September 17, 2019

“Ramana Maharshi, one of greatest Indian saints in modern times, was asked: ‘How should we treat others?’ His reply: ‘THERE ARE NO OTHERS.’ This is the true definition of Human Fraternity.”

I spoke today at an inter-faith meet for world peace in #Madrid Spain.@santegidionews pic.twitter.com/dl8pCTpC92

— Sudheendra Kulkarni (@SudheenKulkarni) September 17, 2019

Committee implementing goals in Document on Human Fraternity meet for first time - Vatican News https://t.co/wYCPgUbgmG

— John M. Martinez, Ph.d. (@JohnMMartinezP1) September 12, 2019

Skorka says the Abu Dhabi doc on human fraternity co-signed by Francis and the Grand Imam of Egypt in Feb could do for Xn-Muslim relations what Nostra Aetate did for Xn-Jewish dialogue. https://t.co/TE5ydK4K5p

— Austen Ivereigh (@austeni) September 14, 2019

The Document on Human Fraternity, which I signed today in Abu Dhabi with my brother the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together. https://t.co/74Ig3XOPzw

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) February 4, 2019

A Conservatism That Is Not Critical Enough

Or a conservatism that is just underdeveloped liberalism.

The Imaginative Conservative: Cosmopolitanism: Citizens Without States? by Lee Trepanier

We Are Special Snowflakes

Are they passing out purple (and red) zuchettos in Cracker Jack boxes these days? Re: De Incarnatione, Latin Christianity goes from one extreme (certain Western theories of atonement) to the other (an absolutist humanism/anthropocentricism).

Go read the Church Fathers on the Divine exchange and deification.

Archbishop José H. Gomez:

The archbishop explained that Advent is a time of waiting for the coming of Christ at Christmas, but it is also an opportunity for God to draw closer to his people in relationship, noting this desire of God to be close to creation is a unique aspect of Christianity.
“And we believe that our God comes to be with us, that he loves us so much that he makes himself one of us – sharing in the whole experience of our humanity, beginning as a little child in a mother’s womb.”

Pravoslavie: Speaking Painful Truth in Love: Orthodox Ecumenism and St. Justin Popovic by Phillip Calington
St. Justin was a puzzling figure during his lifetime, and remains so, more than 35 years after his repose in the Lord. He was himself never a bishop, which allowed him to speak and write even more freely and openly about the issue of ecumenism.

CWR: "Amoris Laetitia" and Vatican II’s Project of Inculturation
Vatican II sought to initiate a dialogue with the modern world, meant to be an extension of the Church’s evangelizing mission. But things have not gone as hoped and planned.
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt

"Pope St. John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council amid great optimism. Pope John called for aggiornamento and an opening of the windows of the Church, but we know that the 1960s were not a time of fresh air. In fact, I would argue it was the breaking forth into daily life of a long trajectory of radical individualism. The Council sought a renewed encounter with the modern ..."



Luther and Protestantism get blamed for the rise of individualism (subjectivism); is Protestantism the roots of the modern turn? Did Luther and the Protestant "Reformers" destroy the authority of the Church? Whence voluntarism and false notions of freedom?

Whom Does Modern Man Worship?

Rorate Caeli: The Horror of Surrogate Religions: cats are a substitute for children and skyscrapers for bell towers

Dan Gilbert on Happiness

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What's Seth MacFarlane 's Agenda?

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