Sunday, October 12, 2014

Saturday, October 11, 2014

First Divine Liturgy - St. Pope Kerollos VI Coptic Church

St. Sabbas's Monastery


Ground Blessing Ceremony


Thursday, October 09, 2014

St. Sergius







Vatican Insider Updates on the Synod

Synod is split on issue of divorce
Fisichella on how to break the deadlock over remarried divorcees
“Premarital courses need to be stricter”

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Orthodox Priest's Vestments Dressed for Glory

Part 5 of the Series on St. Silouan the Athonite


Catholic Theological Union Duns Scotus Lecture: Paul Moses

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: “Show us the Father” – How The Father May or May Not be Depicted in Orthodox Iconography

Eastern Christian Books: Married Eastern Catholic Priests

Eastern Christian Books: Married Eastern Catholic Priests

Eastern Christian Books: Popes Ancient and Modern

Eastern Christian Books: Popes Ancient and Modern

Canon G. A. Simon's Commentary for Benedictine Oblates

NLM: Classics of the Liturgical Movement: Canon Simon's Commentary on the Rule by Peter Kwasniewski

The Dominican Option

C. C. Pecknold

Weighing the Authority of CST


New Material on Pius XII


I Hope Not





Roberto de Mattei on Trent

A counter to the article mentioned by Sandro Magister.

SYNOD AND TRUTH - or, How a Holy See Journal Created a Historical Deception on Trent to Favor Kasper

Two from Vultus Christi

Saint Francis and the Liturgy
The Holy Face in Franciscan Spirituality

Monday, October 06, 2014


Second Marriages

Chiesa: Second Marriages in Venice for “La Civiltà Cattolica”

In support of the ideas of Cardinal Kasper, the magazine with the papal imprimatur dusts off a concession granted by the Council of Trent for Catholics in the Greek islands under Venetian rule, some of whom remarried according to the Orthodox rite

Saturday, October 04, 2014

Friday, October 03, 2014

Why is Vatican Radio Giving Him So Much Publicity?



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Pray for Full Communion


Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Because These Statements Make a Difference...


Pope Francis...















Publicity for Publicity's Sake...












Waiting to See What Actually Happens...

Embattled Vatican Cardinal Burke greeted with a standing ovation in Florida

Why Speculate Publicly? Would This Count as Scandal?

Why not provide the opinion to academic or theological circles first, for an evaluation? Or to his brother bishops?

Bishop offers a solution on Catholic divorce and remarriage
Theologian claims indissolubility can co-exist with possibility of pardon

KasperGate Doesn't Sound Fitting

Fr. Z: Card. Kasper gives YET ANOTHER interview to America Magazine and an Argentinian daily
Rorate Caeli: SYNOD AND TRUTH: Understanding In Depth the Grave Errors of Cardinal Kasper - A Major Article by Roberto de Mattei

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

One Monk's Story


One Jurisdiction to Unite Them All...

Are You Greek? Unifying the Orthodox Church in the United States by Andrew Stephen Damick (via ByzTX)

Interview with Sr. Vassa


Parts 3 and 4 of the Series on St. Silouan





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Monday, September 29, 2014

Let's See if We Can Find the Paper


Divine Liturgies 140929





Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Divine Liturgy With H.H. Pope Tawadros II - Priesthood Ordination of Maged Mourad



I question whether I will ever get used to the clanging of cymbals and such during Divine Liturgy.
Eastern Christian Books: Aidan Hart on His Splendid New Book about Icons

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Benedictine v. Jesuit

NLM: Benedictines vs Jesuits Revisited: Further Thoughts on Models of Liturgy in the Church

Fr. Christopher writes: "The devotio moderna in the late medieval period, as it focused increasingly on the humanity of Christ, and less the Kyrios of glory, took a turn to the more intimate, private and devotional."

Is there a connection between this and Jungmann's insistance on the proper emphasis on Christ as man in liturgical prayer?

Dom Alcuin Reid on the Monastic Office

NLM: Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic Office by Fr. Thomas Kocik

Archbishop Cyril Vasil on Byzantine Marriage and Oikonomia

Sandro Magister: Divorce and Second Marriages. The compliant “Oikonomia” of the Orthodox Churches
Compliant toward the bullying of the civil tribunals, from the times of the Byzantine empire. The past and present of the matrimonial practice of the Orthodox according to the reconstruction of an authority in the field, Archbishop Cyril Vasil, secretary of the congregation for the Oriental Churches

by Sandro Magister

"Up until the end of the ninth century, it was still possible to contract a civil marriage, but by the year 895, on the basis of Emperor Leo VI’s Novella 89, the Church was declared the only institution with legal competence for the celebration of matrimony. In this way, the priestly blessing became a necessary part of the legal act of marriage."

Can we say that Byzantine dogma on the priest being the minister of the sacrament of marriage is a theological opinion and not fixed in the deposit of faith?

Fr. Z

Friday, September 26, 2014

As I've Said

Ecumenism is taking its time

I don't expect it to advance significantly with Pope Francis.

The Wrong Sort of Trumpeting



"No feminism at work here."

DSPT Symposium: God, Reason and Reality



More info.

Anniversaries



One Anniversary that Should be an Occasion of Self-Reflection and Criticism.

Monster Prime Numbers


Post by TED.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Bragging Rights...


The 13th plenary session of the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Orthodox and the Roman-Catholic Churches Comes to an End


St. Silouan the Athonite


Elder Paisios on Children


Ordination of Father Artur Bubnevych

St. Silouan, Part 2


Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Order of Saint Romanos


Icons of the Theotokos


Cardinal Martino Reassures


Affirmative Action Decided at the Top?

Greater representation by women on the International Theological Commission.

The Chant Café: Revolutionary appointments by Kathleen Pluth
Vatican Radio
Thomistica.net
Catholic Herald
Beitbart
NCReporter

Slowly...



Do the Orthodox taken offense when they see the liturgy celebrated like this? Or do they have second thoughts about dialogue?

Ordination of Priests and Pontifical Prayer in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Monday, September 22, 2014

Fessio v. Kasper

CWR: Is Pope Francis upset about an Ignatius Press book?

Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, responds to claims and complaints made by Cardinal Walter Kasper

And from Sandro Magister...
Scola: Four Solutions for the Divorced and Remarried
And the fourth is the newest: to entrust the verification of the validity of a marriage directly to the bishop or one of his delegates, in a nonjudicial forum. With the archbishop of the Milan, there are now ten cardinals who have taken the field against the ideas of Kasper-Bergoglio

The Betting Is Open on the Next Synod
For the first time in decades, bishops and cardinals will get back together to clash over radically opposed ideas, in particular on the yes or no to communion for the divorced and remarried. It is Pope Francis who wanted to reopen the dispute. With an unpredictable outcome

Wherein Fr. Z Rants

Света Архијерејска Литургија - начало индикта и прослава св. Симеона Столпника (храмовна слава)

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Intro to St. Silouan


Kasper Against the Church?

Rorate Caeli: The Game is Up on the Synod and Communion for Remarried Divorcees? - Kasper, in Interview: "Everything was agreed with the Pope."


Why Be Constrained by Federalism?

Why not ask for more, independence? Catholics seem to be unable or unwilling to contemplate what is necessary political reform. The identity that has emerged from consolidation and statism is hard to shake.

One Dominican: Godzblogz

Friday, September 19, 2014

Movie on Ss. Cyril and Methodius


Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Ordination of New Priests in the Armenian Church

Fortunately, He's Not in the Curia


Pope Francis's Series on the Church, Continued











More Local Saints, Please, Less...

"Universal"? Or just Latin?

The "steamroller" continues...




The Voroneţ Monastery in Romania


Fr. Z Speculates

The possible demotion of Cardinal Burke.



‘We have to judge acts’: Vatican’s Cardinal Burke dismantles ‘Who am I to judge?’

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

With a Short Excerpt from Louis Bouyer's Recently Published Memoirs

Original Sins: Eucharistic Prayer II - composed in a few hours in a Roman Trattoria

I need to get a copy of the book.

Some Hope it Will Be "Extraordinary"

Family: After the preventive “wars”, it’s over to the Synod


Pamphlets, books and interviews have focused on the question of communion for remarried divorcees. But there are many more questions that remain open and are to be discussed by the Synod fathers
ANDREA TORNIELLI

What to think of this?

Vatican Diary / Exile to Malta for Cardinal Burke by Sandro Magister

As the impeccable prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, he is on the verge of being demoted to the purely honorary role of “patron” of an order of knighthood. At the behest of Pope Francis



Related:
Reigning and “Emeritus.” The Enigma of the Two Popes by Sandro Magister

It is an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church. With many unknowns still unresolved, and with serious risks already in play. An analysis by Roberto de Mattei

Assyrian Orthodox Patriarch


St Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral marks the anniversary of September 11


The Significance of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky by Father Herman Podmoshensky

Monday, September 15, 2014

Mass for the Dead of All Wars


Structure of the Eucharist


Yowza

Temple of Christ's Resurrection - Montenegro (Podgorica)



A repeat:

Synodality and the Primate


Thomistica.net: Otto Hermann Pesch (1931–2014)

Divine Liturgies, 140915





Contrast - ACROD:


Byzantine Catholic (Ruthenian):

Divine Liturgy in St. James Cathedral, Jerusalem

An Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - Edward C. Feser, PhD