The Departure

The Missionaries of Christ the Redeemer.

I had not heard of the Institute Id of Christ the Redeemer and its charism before until last night at Theology on Tap. I'll have to look into it and its founder, Fernando Rielo, more and see how they fits in with the history of Latin spirituality. (Or Spanish spirituality and theology, for that matter -- quite a few appeals to San Juan de la Cruz last night.) What work are they doing in Spain?

Galatians 1:8

"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

And this includes bishop or patriarch, especially now with the Gospel being replaced by the heresy of liberalism. Pick one: nature and natural law or liberalism and some version of blank slate. You can't have both.

Bernadin's Legacy

Pro-Life Redefined at the Vatican by Joel R. Gallagher

Catechism of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Is an Achievement

English Benedictine Abbeys

Cardinal Müller Speaks Out

Catholic Conclave: Cardinal Müller criticises national episcopal conferences on Amoris Laetitia and Full interview- Cardinal Müller speaks out on Catechism, Amoris Laetitia and the Correctio Filialis, attacks bishops

Pope Francis on Capital Punishment

Pope Francis, the Lérinian legacy of Vatican II, and capital punishment by Eduardo Echeverria

Ed Feser

Ultramontanism's Death Sentence

Metropolitan Kallistos on ‘The situation of the Orthodox Church in the British Isles’

Clean and Unclean

Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council

Tatiana Yashvilli, Our Father

Putting the Local Church in Charge of Liturgical Translations

The wrong time for decentralization and liturgical reform -- especially if no Latin bishop is prepared to excommunicate other bishops for heterodoxy or to bring them to trial for malfeasance. Otherwise I would be sympathetic to having translations of the liturgy into hierartic versions of the local language, instead of the national language, which lends credence to the claims of the modern nation-state and modern nationalism. If bishops are do not have a localist mindset or have not been inculturated into the local culture and language, why bother?

Pray Tell: On Things Liturgical, The Gap Between Francis and Cardinal Sarah Just Got Wider October 14, 2017 by Anthony Ruff, OSB

Sandro Magister: Even the Philosophers Are "Correcting" Each Other. Buttiglione and Pierantoni in a Duel Over "Amoris Laetitia"

Eastern Christian Books: On Elisabeth Behr-Sigel's Ecclesiology and Related Matters

Eastern Christian Books: On Elisabeth Behr-Sigel's Ecclesiology and Related Matters

Pope Francis is the Continuation of Vatican II

In his words and in his actions he is a living demonstration of the limits of the papal office.

Old Testament Saints in the Roman Rite?

A Schema of Art for the Roman Rite?

Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P., Amoris Laetitia Is Ambiguous, Not a Thomistic Document (via Fr. Z)

Localist conception of authority can be summed up as follows: "If you don't truly live with them, why are you trying to make
decisions for them?"

That is the truth to the American conservative or libertarian mantra, "Live and let live." (As opposed to being an endorsement of tolerance at the individual or family level.)

Important Dates

But is one council the same in historical and ecclesial importance as the other?

Papabile?

Sandro Magister: Conclave Trials, with Parolin in Pole Position

Any possibility of a bishop of a small Italian diocese becoming pope?

Only a Latin Traditionalist Who Is a Thomist Could Have Written This?

Would non-traditionalist Thomists or Dominicans agree?

At any rate, the essay deserves a longer response, but I will say that charity has priority and primacy over all else. The problem may lie in St. Thomas's treatment of the virtue of religion, which may need to be reconsidered. (Can we say that religion is concerned with what is directed to the God as end, while the theological virtues are concerned with God as object, if religion is concerned with what we owe to God but charity is also owed to God?)

Western Converts to Orthodoxy

Sex Differences and Intelligence

Men 4 Points Ahead

Renewal of the Liturgy

The preface Joseph Ratzinger wrote for the Russian edition of volume XI of his Opera Omnia --

Ratzinger: “Il rinnovamento della liturgia è fondamentale per il rinnovamento della Chiesa”
Pubblichiamo la prefazione di Benedetto XVI alla edizione russa del volume XI dell’«Opera omnia», edito dalla Casa editrice del Patriarcato di Mosca Nihil Operi Dei praeponatur

Zenit article

Ratzinger Foudnation

Eastern Christian Books: The Chaldean Catholic Church

Eastern Christian Books: The Chaldean Catholic Church

Eastern Christian Books: More on Maximus

Eastern Christian Books: More on Maximus

Documentary on Silverstream Priory

Conquering Pride

Love of enemies...

Eastern Christian Books: Jesuits and Casuists: A Note on Understanding Amoris Laetitia

Eastern Christian Books: Jesuits and Casuists: A Note on Understanding Amoris Laetitia

Hymn of St. Francis

Litany of Light

Love of Enemies

Did Benedict XVI Think Differently?

Rorate Caeli: Joseph Ratzinger: "Criticism of papal pronouncements will be possible and even necessary, to the extent that they lack support in Scripture and the Creed"

The Cross

The Transfiguration of Christ

Baroque or Monastic?

Are they mutually exclusive, especially with the disappearance and revival of Benedictine monasticism in France after the French Revolution?

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick on the Reformation

Parenting Teens

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

Children of God

More on the Revision of the Roman Lectionary

The Light of Christ

AMU Graduate Theology Professors

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.'”

New CUA Press Books

LifeTeen No Good?

What is paramount in worship? Emotion or reason? "Both" is just a way to weasel out of answering the question.

The Reformed Roman Lectionary

Archbishop Pozzo on Summorum Pontificum

Rorate Caeli: And So It Begins: "FILIAL CORRECTION OF POPE FRANCIS For the Propagation of Heresies"

Sandro Magister: If I Go Wrong, You Will Correct Me. The Seven Heresies of "Amoris Laetitia"

Msgr. Gherardini Passes

Rorate Caeli

Eastern Christian Books: New Works on Irenaeus of Lyons

Eastern Christian Books: New Works on Irenaeus of Lyons

A Change to the Name of the JP2 Institute

Dr. Mark Latkovic reacts.

The Varieties of Monasticism in Byzantium

Lord of the Powers

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 […]

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

The Unmaking of Medical Ethics

The Empowering of the Cross

The Divine Liturgy

The Exltation of the Cross

Day of Recollection with Fr. Cassian Folsom

The Tree Heals the Tree

Sandro Magister: All the Reasons of Professor Seifert, Fired For Too Much Fidelity to the Church

The Feast of Byzantium

Lord, Save Thy People…

The Human Condition

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.

Our New Life in Christ

Why We Have to Suffer

A Conversation with Marcel Pérès

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.

Ekklesia

The Wedding Garment

Restore the Psalms

Edward Feser and Joseph Bessette on The World Over

Before Church and State by Andrew Willard Jones

Crisis Magazine: A Brilliant Defense of Christendom by John Horvat II

Sandro Magister: From the Vatican, a Cold Shower On Negotiations With Beijing

Not a View Latins Would Accept Easily

Pravmir: St. Mark of Ephesus: A True Ecumenist

Magnum principium

Fr. Z
Rorate Caeli

The Nativity of the Theotokos

Benedict XVI on Vatican 2

From Last Testament, the interview by Peter Seewald, p. 142:

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.

Fr. Thomas Joseph White to Be on EWTN Radio

Eastern Standard Time

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.

Cardinal Caffara Passes

Rorrate Cali

Related:
Notes: More on Josef Seifert's Retirement
For the Record - Samizdat - Full Text of Archbishop Tucho Fernandez's "Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing"

Vatican Politicking

Revealed: British Cardinal Fixed Vatican Conclave for His Friend Pope Francis

Byzantine Liturgical Reform

Pray Tell: How Do We Assess Liturgical Reform? by Nicholas Denysenko

Liturgical Memory

Eastern Christian Books: Byzantine Canopies

Eastern Christian Books: Byzantine Canopies

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.

Cardinal Sarah Responds to Fr. James Martin, SJ

WSJ

Sandro Magister, Cardinal Sarah Confutes the Pro-Gay Jesuit

Eastern Christian Books: What is the Common Good?

Eastern Christian Books: What is the Common Good?

Ah, Aramaic.

Metanoia

Kyrie Eleison

An Orthodox Take on the Effects of the Reformation

St. Phanourios

Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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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