Saturday, April 26, 2014
CFN: The "Canonizations": CFN interviews Professor Roberto de Mattei
Someone I knew at Christendom was in the area several months ago to give a talk at the DSPT on canonization. He wrote this article on the same topic for Crisis.
Is there an analogy between canonization and canon law, such that the pope does not have authority to promulgate something that is binding upon the whole Church in these two respects, the liturgical calendar (and official cultus) and canon law? For those who believe that the Eastern churches do not have to accept anything of the exercise of the papal office beyond what was done in the first millenium, is there anything in Church History during the first millenium that would uphold this sort of authority for the bishop of Rome? Can the pope declare (or teach) that someone (Roman-rite or otherwise?) is a saint and have it binding on the Church Universal? (It may be that some who believe that such proclamations are instances of papal infallibility must do so because they believe that this is part of the pope's authority with respect to the Church Universal, rather than as a part of his authority as "Patriarch of the West.")
Someone I knew at Christendom was in the area several months ago to give a talk at the DSPT on canonization. He wrote this article on the same topic for Crisis.
Is there an analogy between canonization and canon law, such that the pope does not have authority to promulgate something that is binding upon the whole Church in these two respects, the liturgical calendar (and official cultus) and canon law? For those who believe that the Eastern churches do not have to accept anything of the exercise of the papal office beyond what was done in the first millenium, is there anything in Church History during the first millenium that would uphold this sort of authority for the bishop of Rome? Can the pope declare (or teach) that someone (Roman-rite or otherwise?) is a saint and have it binding on the Church Universal? (It may be that some who believe that such proclamations are instances of papal infallibility must do so because they believe that this is part of the pope's authority with respect to the Church Universal, rather than as a part of his authority as "Patriarch of the West.")
Friday, April 25, 2014
Chiesa: The Last Pope-King by Sandro Magister
Two of his predecessors made saints instead of only one. The Italian episcopal conference annihilated. The men of the old guard still at the helm of the IOR. All as Francis commands
Two of his predecessors made saints instead of only one. The Italian episcopal conference annihilated. The men of the old guard still at the helm of the IOR. All as Francis commands
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Antiphon: J. J. Jorgensen, “Arguments for Reintegrating the Sacraments of Christian Initiation for Latin-rite Children”
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Holy and Great Friday
Capella Romana: For Holy Friday: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a Tree
Today, for Holy Friday, sung in the original medieval melody
Pravmir: The Historical Development of Holy Week Services In the Orthodox/Byzantine Rite
Related:
St. Athanasius on Why Christ Had to Die
Today, for Holy Friday, sung in the original medieval melody
Pravmir: The Historical Development of Holy Week Services In the Orthodox/Byzantine Rite
Related:
St. Athanasius on Why Christ Had to Die
Thursday, April 17, 2014
From Several Months Ago... How Do His Defenders Respond?
We have the same Father? No one comes to the Father except through the Son. No one can call Him Father without help of the Holy Spirit.
Those who become adopted sons and daughters of God through baptism become co-heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ. Is God the Father our Father regardless of whether we accept His offer of [adopted] sonship? Or is "Father" being used here in the same sense as "Creator"?
His comments seem dangerously muddled and close to promoting indifferentism within the "Abrahamic" or great "monotheistic" religions.
A Return to a More Classical Style of Iconography?
Zenit and other Latin Catholic news agencies have been positing icons and mosaics for Holy Week - good for them.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Chiesa: The Joys and Sorrows of Francis's Magisterium by Sandro Magister
The innovation in method of "Evangelii Gaudium" explained by an Australian theologian. But the pope is not always interpreted correctly. Not even by the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica." The emblematic case of the baptism in Córdoba
The innovation in method of "Evangelii Gaudium" explained by an Australian theologian. But the pope is not always interpreted correctly. Not even by the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica." The emblematic case of the baptism in Córdoba
Monday, April 14, 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
An Interesting Marketing Attempt
Not "Creed" or the Latin translliteration(?), symbolum, but the Greek symbolon.
An attempt to make it seem more "classical" or Biblical? To show the continuity with the early Church?
Ignatius Press
Lighthouse Catholic Media
An attempt to make it seem more "classical" or Biblical? To show the continuity with the early Church?
Ignatius Press
Lighthouse Catholic Media
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
The Cardinal Newman Society: Bioethics Expert Explains Harmony between Science and Faith at Christendom College
Pope Emeritus
Sandro Magister, The Pope's Third Embodiment
It is Benedict XVI's state of life after the resignation. He is no longer the vicar of Christ, but neither has he returned to private life. He is "pope emeritus," and he acts as such: an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church
It is Benedict XVI's state of life after the resignation. He is no longer the vicar of Christ, but neither has he returned to private life. He is "pope emeritus," and he acts as such: an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Libertine Atheism
Sandro Magister, The Pope and the Philosopher
His name is Alberto Methol Ferré. It is from him that Bergoglio draws his inspiration in evaluating the world and contrasting the new dominant culture: "libertine atheism." The pope's strict side with Obama
His name is Alberto Methol Ferré. It is from him that Bergoglio draws his inspiration in evaluating the world and contrasting the new dominant culture: "libertine atheism." The pope's strict side with Obama
Bishop Aquila on Confirmation
"Send Forth Your Spirit"
On the Sacrament of Confirmation By Bishop Samuel J. Aquila
2011 Hillenbrand Lecture: The Sacrament of Confirmation - EWTN archive
Restoring the source and summit of faith
Denver archbishop advocates reordering of confirmation to liturgical commission
On the Sacrament of Confirmation By Bishop Samuel J. Aquila
2011 Hillenbrand Lecture: The Sacrament of Confirmation - EWTN archive
Restoring the source and summit of faith
Denver archbishop advocates reordering of confirmation to liturgical commission
Monday, April 07, 2014
Sunday, April 06, 2014
NCReg Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity by EDWARD PENTIN
An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.
An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.
Pravmir: Women and the Priesthood
The fact that women became equal to men in many spheres of human life, including politics, has nothing to do with the church order. In order to introduce female priesthood we need a new Revelation as powerful as the Revelation of the New Testament, and the creation of a New Testament Church. Since such a Revelation has not happened, we cannot make any radical changes to the established church order.
The fact that women became equal to men in many spheres of human life, including politics, has nothing to do with the church order. In order to introduce female priesthood we need a new Revelation as powerful as the Revelation of the New Testament, and the creation of a New Testament Church. Since such a Revelation has not happened, we cannot make any radical changes to the established church order.
Saturday, April 05, 2014
A Needed Pastoral Solution for... Priests?
Oratories and other societies of apostolic life.
Priests Battle the Pouring Dark of Loneliness
The temptation of loneliness can haunt priests alone at their parishes, but a variety of priestly fraternities are giving them ways of finding community with brother priests to sustain them.
Priests Battle the Pouring Dark of Loneliness
The temptation of loneliness can haunt priests alone at their parishes, but a variety of priestly fraternities are giving them ways of finding community with brother priests to sustain them.
Catholic World Report: Mysticism, Monasticism, and the New Evangelization by Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis (Holy Ressurection Monastery) and Benjamin Mann
Friday, April 04, 2014
In Adam, Perhaps
Not in Christ necessarily - there is no way for us to know if this is the case and there are signs that this is unlikely.
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Next Friday at the DSPT
DSPT Events
Dumb Ox Theology Forum: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP - Aquinas on Imperfect Happiness: Nature, Grace and the Final End of Man
Dumb Ox Theological Forum
Man, missed this - don't recall seeing it on my FB feed:
Dumb Ox Theology Forum: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP - Aquinas on Imperfect Happiness: Nature, Grace and the Final End of Man
Friday, April 11, 2014 DSPT Dumb Ox
Both Karl Barth and Henri De Lubac provided powerful, compelling visions of the relationship between the grace of God and human nature. However, their visions are in many respects opposed and incompatible. In his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas focuses on the imperfection of all natural human happiness, and on the natural desire for God. How does his vision provide a potential bridge between the diverse theologies of Barth and De Lubac?
Dumb Ox Theological Forum
Man, missed this - don't recall seeing it on my FB feed:
November 12, 2013 - Dr. Donald S. Prudlo jsu.edu , Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval History, Jacksonville State University - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation
Ever since the definition of Papal Infallibility at the First Vatican Council, there has been a lively debate in the Church about its meaning. This talk will address the roots of that doctrine in the middle ages, and in particular trace its development in the practice of the canonization of saints.
DSPT Dumb Ox Theology Forum - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation Papal canonization did not really begin to take off until the 12th century. The challenge quickly became how to understand it apart from local and episcopal canonizations. At the same time various groups of heretics were beginning to challenge the doctrine of the Communion of saints, as well as the cultic practices of Christianity surrounding the tombs of its holy ones. In the 13th century the papacy and the new Mendicant orders established a symbiotic relationship that saw the elevation of Franciscan and Dominican saints. Some of these had been intimately involved in the suppression of heresy. Criticism of the cult of saints moved from the general to the particular, as individual saints came under attack. This forced the papacy and the Mendicant theologians to examine more closely the doctrine of papal canonization. By the end of
the thirteenth century, the difference had been established: papal canonizations enjoyed infallibility.
Canonization lies at the root of the personal infallibility dogma, and this will be the subject of the lecture.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music: Symposium | Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Human Dignity Canard
Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World by S. Adam Seagrave
Do we need a concept of dignity in order to have a full account of human flourishing and man's ultimate end? Or to explain the basis of charity or justice? I don't think so.
We may, nevertheless, recognize a grain of truth in the moderns’ appreciation of the moral status of the individual human being. That appreciation coheres well with Christian moral theology but not with pre-modern moral and political philosophy. The moderns’ mistaken rejection of the unchanging objective contexts within which the individual exists led, in the thought of a select few, to a more profound understanding of human dignity than is available in any of the pre-moderns—including Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Locke’s nuanced and complex understanding of natural rights, in particular, provides an important philosophical elaboration on the Biblical account of humankind’s creation “in the image and likeness” of God. In tomorrow's article, I will examine this concept in greater depth.
Do we need a concept of dignity in order to have a full account of human flourishing and man's ultimate end? Or to explain the basis of charity or justice? I don't think so.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
What is a citizen?
Post by Ignatius Press.
As bishops have always spoken? A naive assumption of duties with respect to the secular powers?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Waiting for Her to Retire
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Canonization of Saints: Limits to the Papal Office?
Chiesa: Vatican Diary / In a few months, six new saints canonized outside the rules
Can the pope, though, propose someone for veneration by the Church Universal without proper consultation and discernment from the bishops of other churches? If there is no cultus, how can this be possible? (How is the current procedure different from what was followed in the first millenium, when Latin saints, e.g. St. Gregory the Great and St. Benedict, were recognized by the Byzantine churches?)
I would guess that the official pronouncement makes a reference to the entire Church, rather than to the Latin churches, but is this proper? Can we understand the canonizations done by the bishop of Rome, either directly or mediately through other Latin bishops acting in his name, as being done through his role as Western "patriarch" rather than as pope, despite any official statements to the contrary?
Can the pope, though, propose someone for veneration by the Church Universal without proper consultation and discernment from the bishops of other churches? If there is no cultus, how can this be possible? (How is the current procedure different from what was followed in the first millenium, when Latin saints, e.g. St. Gregory the Great and St. Benedict, were recognized by the Byzantine churches?)
I would guess that the official pronouncement makes a reference to the entire Church, rather than to the Latin churches, but is this proper? Can we understand the canonizations done by the bishop of Rome, either directly or mediately through other Latin bishops acting in his name, as being done through his role as Western "patriarch" rather than as pope, despite any official statements to the contrary?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
St. Gregory Palamas & the Challenge of Barlaam
Academic lecture presented by the Very Reverend Protopresbyter Maxym Lysack.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Sandro Magister's Assessment
Bergoglio, the General Who Wants to Win without Fighting
"I have never understood the expression 'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the dominant culture
"I have never understood the expression 'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the dominant culture
DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2014
The video is now available for the lecture:
Aquinas Lecture 2014: Diana Fritz-Cates, PhD "Hatred in the Light of Love: A Thomistic Analysis"
Aquinas Lecture 2014: Diana Fritz-Cates, PhD "Hatred in the Light of Love: A Thomistic Analysis"
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.
Fr. K mentioned his name a couple of weeks ago. Apparently he is quite the liturgical scholar - here is a list of publications in that area. How many of his books are available at the SCU library?
(A Jesuit who knows liturgy! Apparently he is bi-ritual?)
(A Jesuit who knows liturgy! Apparently he is bi-ritual?)
Saturday, March 08, 2014
No cassocks?
It's not summer yet, either... some of the priests of Rome:
Such clerical dress is permitted - but is there any push for Roman priests to wear the cassock? Or is that an incidental that is not necessary for the new evangelization?
Post by News.va English.
Such clerical dress is permitted - but is there any push for Roman priests to wear the cassock? Or is that an incidental that is not necessary for the new evangelization?
Civitas Dei Medallion Award - Villanova University
2012 - Given to Alasdair MacIntyre. I don't think I've posted this video before.
Alasdair MacIntyre - Catholic Instead of What?
Alasdair MacIntyre - Catholic Instead of What?
Friday, March 07, 2014
Fr. David gave a presentation on St. Maximus the Confessor - I definitely will need to read more, especially his use of "nature." For now it would have to be his writings in English translation. I should improve my Greek! Is there a study of his appropriation (and rejection) of Aristotle's teachings?
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy: Is Orthodoxy the Same Everywhere?: Understanding Theological Controversy Within the Church by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Related:
Brotherly meeting of Primates of Church of Constantinople and Russian Church takes place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople
Commission for the preparation of the meeting of Primates of Local Orthodox Churches concludes its work
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill arrives in Istanbul to take part in the meeting of Primates of Orthodox Churches
Related:
Brotherly meeting of Primates of Church of Constantinople and Russian Church takes place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople
Commission for the preparation of the meeting of Primates of Local Orthodox Churches concludes its work
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill arrives in Istanbul to take part in the meeting of Primates of Orthodox Churches
Fisher More Responds
Rorate Caeli: For the record: College responds
Both Board and President release statements
Related:
CWR: Bishop of Fort Worth draws the line [UPDATED] By Michael J. Miller
Both Board and President release statements
Related:
CWR: Bishop of Fort Worth draws the line [UPDATED] By Michael J. Miller
CWR: Can We Talk About Fasting? by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Some thoughts on the Western and Eastern approaches to food and fasting during the Lenten season.
Some thoughts on the Western and Eastern approaches to food and fasting during the Lenten season.
First Things: Against Heterosexuality by Michael W. Hannon
The idea of sexual orientation is artificial and inhibits Christian witness.
The idea of sexual orientation is artificial and inhibits Christian witness.
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Fisher More College
Rorate Caeli: Guest Op-Ed: First Things First
The Traditional Latin Mass and the Fort Worth Affair
Dr. Taylor Marshall provides some information as to what has been going on with the school:
The Traditional Latin Mass and the Fort Worth Affair
Dr. Taylor Marshall provides some information as to what has been going on with the school:
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