Friday, October 06, 2017
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Monday, October 02, 2017
Baroque or Monastic?
Are they mutually exclusive, especially with the disappearance and revival of Benedictine monasticism in France after the French Revolution?
Sunday, October 01, 2017
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Roman Catholic Social Teaching Unlikely to Address This Point Any Time Soon
Crisis Magazine: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb
The usual view among Catholics is that public authority should look after all aspects of the common good. As a result, the social encyclicals have proposed a variety of responsibilities
The usual view among Catholics is that public authority should look after all aspects of the common good. As a result, the social encyclicals have proposed a variety of responsibilities
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
CWR: A Conversation with a Traditional Catholic
“After our first Traditional Latin Mass,” says Matthew Arnold, author of Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, “I asked Betty, a cradle Catholic, her opinion. She said, ‘I feel like I’ve just been to Mass for the first time.'”
“After our first Traditional Latin Mass,” says Matthew Arnold, author of Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, “I asked Betty, a cradle Catholic, her opinion. She said, ‘I feel like I’ve just been to Mass for the first time.'”
Monday, September 25, 2017
LifeTeen No Good?
What is paramount in worship? Emotion or reason? "Both" is just a way to weasel out of answering the question.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Cardinal Caffarra's Final Testimony
CWR: “The Restoration of Man”: Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’s Final Testimony CWR Staff
The full text of a scheduled address by the late archbishop emeritus of Bologna, in which he provocatively states, “Everything that makes up what we call […]
The full text of a scheduled address by the late archbishop emeritus of Bologna, in which he provocatively states, “Everything that makes up what we call […]
Fr. Charles J. McCarthy
CWR: The Last Jesuit in China
CWR Staff
Dr. Amanda C. R. Clark’s book China’s Last Jesuit tells the little known story of Fr. Charles J. McCarthy and the end of the mission
CWR Staff
Dr. Amanda C. R. Clark’s book China’s Last Jesuit tells the little known story of Fr. Charles J. McCarthy and the end of the mission
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Too Much Mind, Not Enough Heart?
Rod Dreher believes there are some similarities in the spirituality of Byzantine Christianity and Buddhism: Robert Wright’s Buddhism. Would Syriac Christianity have the same similarities? Byzantine monks are often the first to reject any sort of similarity as being only superficial.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
CWR Dispatch: Eastern and Western liturgy: Natural harmony or unnatural dissonance? by Ines Angeli Murzaku
Pope Francis’ speech on the liturgical reform delivered on August 24, 2017 raises questions about both liturgy and ecumenism.
Pope Francis’ speech on the liturgical reform delivered on August 24, 2017 raises questions about both liturgy and ecumenism.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Before Church and State by Andrew Willard Jones
Crisis Magazine: A Brilliant Defense of Christendom by John Horvat II
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Saturday, September 09, 2017
Friday, September 08, 2017
Benedict XVI on Vatican 2
From Last Testament, the interview by Peter Seewald, p. 142:
Some thoughts on the renewal soon.
Peter Seewald: Was it a mistake to convoke the council at all?
No it was right for sure. One can ask whether it was necessary or not, ok. But in itself it was a moment in the Church
when you were simply waiting on something new, on a renewal, a renewal of the whole. That wasn't to be something coming on from Rome, but a new encounter with the whole worldwide Church. In that respect, the time was simply nigh.
Some thoughts on the renewal soon.
Thursday, September 07, 2017
CWR: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb
The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood and articulated.
The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood and articulated.
Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Monday, September 04, 2017
A False Opposition Between Commandment and Love?
I hope the podcast is better than the summary. Law or commandment pertains to reason, love to the will, and God Himself gives us a commandment to love Him and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Sunday, September 03, 2017
Saturday, September 02, 2017
CWR Dispatch: The Catholic Church recognizes most of the world’s ‘civil marriages’ by Edward N. Peters
Catholics should not be misled by thinking that “civil marriage” is not usually real marriage or think that any approval of “same-sex marriage” is consistent with Church teaching—because it isn’t.
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Catholics should not be misled by thinking that “civil marriage” is not usually real marriage or think that any approval of “same-sex marriage” is consistent with Church teaching—because it isn’t.
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Friday, September 01, 2017
CWR: “Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology by Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality?
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality?
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Two Jesuits Respond to the Nashville Statement
CWR: When some Christians affirm traditional moral teaching, other Christians freak out by Carl E. Olson
The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years.
The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
CWR Dispatch: Recalling the the prophetic embrace of Athenagoras I and Paul VI by Ines Angeli Murzaku
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Monday, August 28, 2017
Yes, the train is fine.
This is how a Jesuit spins the loss of vocations and decline in numbers and the corresponding reduction in need for administrative support and consequent downsizing.
"Our new province is part of the Society of Jesus' worldwide effort to restructure its administrative model, cutting down the number of geographic provinces throughout the world to foster greater collaboration amongst our works while enabling us to be more nimble to meet emerging demands in service to God's people."
-Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, Provincial Jesuits West
https://jesuitswest.org/Assets/Publications/File/Mission_2017_Fall.pdf
"Our new province is part of the Society of Jesus' worldwide effort to restructure its administrative model, cutting down the number of geographic provinces throughout the world to foster greater collaboration amongst our works while enabling us to be more nimble to meet emerging demands in service to God's people."
-Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, Provincial Jesuits West
https://jesuitswest.org/Assets/Publications/File/Mission_2017_Fall.pdf
Aquinas and the Greek Fathers
Ave Maria University: Upcoming Conference on Aquinas and the Greek Fathers
Includes a short Q&A with Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP.
Includes a short Q&A with Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Pertinacious Papist: Sammons and Lawler: why we pretend nothing went wrong after Vatican II
Three articles were published recently revisiting the confusion following Vatican II and suggesting how to make sense of it: - Martin Mosebach, "Pope Benedict's Red Thread," *First Things* (August 10, 2017) - Eric Sammons, "Evangelization, Vatican II, and Censorship," *Crisis* (August 15, 2017) - Phil Lawler, "Let's stop pretending: something DID go wrong after Vatican II," *CatholicCulture.org* (August 23, 2017) The last article by Lawler draws the three together by summarizing points made by Mosebach and Sammons. Mosebach's and Sammons' articles, however, sh...
Three articles were published recently revisiting the confusion following Vatican II and suggesting how to make sense of it: - Martin Mosebach, "Pope Benedict's Red Thread," *First Things* (August 10, 2017) - Eric Sammons, "Evangelization, Vatican II, and Censorship," *Crisis* (August 15, 2017) - Phil Lawler, "Let's stop pretending: something DID go wrong after Vatican II," *CatholicCulture.org* (August 23, 2017) The last article by Lawler draws the three together by summarizing points made by Mosebach and Sammons. Mosebach's and Sammons' articles, however, sh...
The Church is More than the Patriarchate of Rome
The knowledge of Roman Catholics remains abysmal on this point.
Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform” by Christopher R. Altieri
The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process.
Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform” by Christopher R. Altieri
The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process.
Friday, August 25, 2017
The Current Occupant of the See of Rome Needs a Primer on Papal Authority
CWR Dispatch: Liturgy, papal infallibility, and terminology by Edward N. Peters
In what way can a pope declare that “liturgical reform” is “irreversible”?
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In what way can a pope declare that “liturgical reform” is “irreversible”?
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
"Sure thing, Boss."
It is interesting how "boss" has replaced "sir" as a colloquial way of showing respect (to a man). (I have not yet heard a woman use this form of address yet.)
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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