Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell' by Michael W. Chapman
Rorate Caeli
Reaction from Pat Buchanan
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Acquired Mental Handicaps
If overuse of the internet and other electronic media leads to some sort of mental impairment with respect to attention and focus and other acts of the mind, then might it be the case there will be consequences on a person's ability to participate in liturgical prayer? How many of our young people can sit through the praying of a Psalm, or the Anaphora/Roman Canon, without being distracted? Has modern technology exacerbated our natural weaknesses or deficits?
With a Psalm least one can prayer/sing the Psalm and that will help one regain focus. But with an anaphora? One should be listening attentively, and not praying. Though perhaps repeating the words silently might be permissible.
With a Psalm least one can prayer/sing the Psalm and that will help one regain focus. But with an anaphora? One should be listening attentively, and not praying. Though perhaps repeating the words silently might be permissible.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Fr. Bouyer and the Pauline Reform
Sacred Music 141.4: "Louis Bouyer and the Pauline Reform: Great Expectations Dashed" by John Pepino
Friday, March 23, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
But Will a Robe Be Associated with Masculinity?
Or will the cassock fall into disrepute because of negative associations with unmanly clerics?
A Reset of Sorts
NCReg: Youth Leader: Traditional Latin Mass is 'Progressive' by Edward Pentin
Bertalan Kiss says the extraordinary form of the Roman rite is not stuck in the past but rather draws on the treasures of the Church’s heritage and attracts young people because it ‘challenges them.’
Bertalan Kiss says the extraordinary form of the Roman rite is not stuck in the past but rather draws on the treasures of the Church’s heritage and attracts young people because it ‘challenges them.’
Finally
CNA/EWTN via NCReg: Top Vatican Communications Officer Resigns After ‘Lettergate’ Fiasco
On Wednesday Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò.
Related:
More on the Letter of Benedict XVI. There's Another Paragraph, in Which He Writes…
Like getting blood out of a stone
On Wednesday Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò.
Related:
More on the Letter of Benedict XVI. There's Another Paragraph, in Which He Writes…
Like getting blood out of a stone
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Devil and Father Amorth
‘The Devil and Father Amorth’ Trailer: Witness ‘Exorcist’ Director William Friedkin Filming a Live Exorcism by Zack Sharf
What happens when the director of “The Exorcist” shoots an actual exorcism? Let's find out.
What happens when the director of “The Exorcist” shoots an actual exorcism? Let's find out.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
More from Fr. Hunwicke on Canonization
CANONISATION (2)
See also this blog entry at ccwatershed.
The rites of Canonisation have tended ... this will not surprise you ... to vary in the last seventy years. The most recent changes before this (PF) pontificate, which took place under Benedict XVI, seemed designed to impose on the rites a theological meaning which they previously had not so explicitly expressed. As Pope Benedict left the rite, before the singing of Veni Creator Spiritus the Pontiff asked for prayer that Christ the Lord would not permit His Church to err in so great a matter. And, in the Third Petition the Cardinal Prefect for the Causes of Saints informed the Pontiff that the Holy Spirit "in every time renders the supreme Magisterium immune from error (omni tempore supremum Magisterium erroris expertem reddit)".
These phrases, added by Pope Benedict, were in formulae cut out by PF when he canonised a number of beati in 2014; and subsequently.
It looks to me as though Pope Benedict's additions were intended to confirm the view that acts of canonisation are infallible and require acceptance de fide. I wish now to point out that, if the formulae introduced by Benedict XVI did affect this debated theological question, then, surely, so does the action of this Pontificate in removing them. In the gradual accumulation of evidences and precedents which gradually build up an established judgement of the Magisterium, surely phrases which were introduced into rites by one Pontiff and, very soon afterwards, removed by the next, have less auctoritas than established and immemorial formulae which have been used by successive pontiffs for centuries.
See also this blog entry at ccwatershed.
A Reform of the Reform?
The version of Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas: Liturgical Vision vs. Liturgical Visions: Vatican II, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Sarah
Why I believe that the loss of the sense of the sacred is the primary reason why we have lost millions of Catholics to faithful worship.
Much of it a Latin traditionalist could agree with.
So why should the Japanese have to suffer through Latin just so that a few tourists and legal residents can benefit from hearing something familiar?
Also, the patriarchate of Rome is not the Universal Church. And there is no reason why the patriarchate of Rome should have just one language, when it has jurisdiction over such a disparate group of ethnic groups and cultures. Latin could be a lingua franca for clerics, or bishops, but all of the faithful?
There should have been a greater move towards inculturation for peoples who did not speak Latin or Latin-derived language/Romance language, and this should have been part of the initial missionary effort. (To the Germanic tribes, for example.) Even if the project to develop a native hieratic language took some time as the local Churches discerned for those gifted with the intellectual ability and calling to undertake such a task, it still should have been a priority prominent in the minds of missionary bishops.
One can ask whether in the Latin psyche adoration has been separated from liturgical worship due to the rise of Latin "Eucharistic devotion."
Why I believe that the loss of the sense of the sacred is the primary reason why we have lost millions of Catholics to faithful worship.
Much of it a Latin traditionalist could agree with.
Over and above that, for a universal Church (in an age of high mobility), the ability to worship in a common language is most important. How many of you have gone on a business trip to Tokyo, for example, finding yourself attending Sunday Mass in Japanese (which I presume most of you do not know)?
So why should the Japanese have to suffer through Latin just so that a few tourists and legal residents can benefit from hearing something familiar?
Also, the patriarchate of Rome is not the Universal Church. And there is no reason why the patriarchate of Rome should have just one language, when it has jurisdiction over such a disparate group of ethnic groups and cultures. Latin could be a lingua franca for clerics, or bishops, but all of the faithful?
There should have been a greater move towards inculturation for peoples who did not speak Latin or Latin-derived language/Romance language, and this should have been part of the initial missionary effort. (To the Germanic tribes, for example.) Even if the project to develop a native hieratic language took some time as the local Churches discerned for those gifted with the intellectual ability and calling to undertake such a task, it still should have been a priority prominent in the minds of missionary bishops.
What is the significance of kneeling? It is at one and the same time the posture of humility and adoration. Benedict was fond of quoting St. Augustine who declared: “Let no one receive who has not first adored.” The external sign of kneeling helps to safeguard the sacrality of the action of receiving. Admittedly, the Churches of the East (both Catholic and Orthodox) receive standing, however, so much else in their liturgies emphasizes the transcendent that there is little danger of obscuring that dimension.
One can ask whether in the Latin psyche adoration has been separated from liturgical worship due to the rise of Latin "Eucharistic devotion."
Interesting Marketing?
Ignatius Press: Confessiosn of a Traditional Catholic by Matthew Arnold
The book features an oil lamp (or candle holder) that is typically used in Byzantine temples or homes, especially hanging in front of an icon, but not in Latin temples. Roman Catholics, even traditionalists, prefer their bleached candles, which generally go with their statues. Rarely will they put candles in front of a religious paintings. Though perhaps I may have seen this in Rome, but was the candle for the painting or the altar? So why was this particular image used for book? It was probably the decision of the publisher and not the author. To add a greater sense of ritual or piety or mystique that would be missing with a candle?
The book features an oil lamp (or candle holder) that is typically used in Byzantine temples or homes, especially hanging in front of an icon, but not in Latin temples. Roman Catholics, even traditionalists, prefer their bleached candles, which generally go with their statues. Rarely will they put candles in front of a religious paintings. Though perhaps I may have seen this in Rome, but was the candle for the painting or the altar? So why was this particular image used for book? It was probably the decision of the publisher and not the author. To add a greater sense of ritual or piety or mystique that would be missing with a candle?
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Luther and the Natural Law
Law, Liberalism, and Luther: Beyond the Myths by Korey D. Maas
Contrary to the popular, tidy narrative repeated by Robert Reilly and others, neither Luther nor his colleagues and heirs “abandoned” natural law. Nor did they recast it in a voluntarist mold. They embraced and defended it along entirely traditional lines.
Contrary to the popular, tidy narrative repeated by Robert Reilly and others, neither Luther nor his colleagues and heirs “abandoned” natural law. Nor did they recast it in a voluntarist mold. They embraced and defended it along entirely traditional lines.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
First Things: Is There a Saving Truth? by Gerhard Cardinal Müller
Does our eternal salvation depend on the concrete acceptance of the truths of faith?
Does our eternal salvation depend on the concrete acceptance of the truths of faith?
CWR Dispatch: What to make of Benedict XVI’s letter about Pope Francis’ theological thought?
The brief and perfunctorily courteous note from the Pope emeritus was just that, and there’s no reason to try and make the letter say what it does not say.
Related: The Double "Foolish Prejudice." The Complete Text of the Letter by Benedict XVI
The brief and perfunctorily courteous note from the Pope emeritus was just that, and there’s no reason to try and make the letter say what it does not say.
Related: The Double "Foolish Prejudice." The Complete Text of the Letter by Benedict XVI
R.J. Snell Reviews MacIntyre's Latest
Power, Preference, and Morality: On Alasdair MacIntyre’s Latest by R.J. Snell
Despite the frustrating sense that much of its argument is asserted rather than demonstrated, there can be no doubt that those involved in the cultural disputes of our day ought to know Alasdair MacIntyre’s new book.
Despite the frustrating sense that much of its argument is asserted rather than demonstrated, there can be no doubt that those involved in the cultural disputes of our day ought to know Alasdair MacIntyre’s new book.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Canonization and Papal Infallibility
Fr. Hunwicke
Again the question needs to be asked as to whether the bishop of Rome canonizes as the first bishop of the Universal Church or as the patriarch of Rome. Was his authority to canonize on behalf of the Universal Church ever been recognized in the first millenium? I would think the answer is no.
Again the question needs to be asked as to whether the bishop of Rome canonizes as the first bishop of the Universal Church or as the patriarch of Rome. Was his authority to canonize on behalf of the Universal Church ever been recognized in the first millenium? I would think the answer is no.
A Premature Defense?
Has evolution really been proven as fact?
In Defense of Thomistic Evolution: A Response to Chaberek by Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.
Why did God choose to work via an evolutionary process rather than will a special creation? Because it better reveals His glory and His power. Because it reveals better that He is God.
In Defense of Thomistic Evolution: A Response to Chaberek by Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.
Why did God choose to work via an evolutionary process rather than will a special creation? Because it better reveals His glory and His power. Because it reveals better that He is God.
Monday, March 12, 2018
Ryan T. Anderson on Sex Change
Sex Change: Physically Impossible, Psychosocially Unhelpful, and Philosophically Misguided by Ryan T. Anderson
Modern medicine can’t reassign sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially. Here is the evidence.
Modern medicine can’t reassign sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially. Here is the evidence.
She Has Her Fans
Catholic Theology by Tracey Rowland
Fr. Z is one. BOOKS RECEIVED and a strong recommendation and a new liturgical rites manual
Fr. Z is one. BOOKS RECEIVED and a strong recommendation and a new liturgical rites manual
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Friday, March 09, 2018
Doesn't the Patriarchate of Rome Have More Pressing Issues?
One would think that the various explanations given by scholars and theologians about the validity of current translations would have been sufficient to give this a rest.
"Pater Noster," No Peace. The Battle Begins Among the Translations
"Pater Noster," No Peace. The Battle Begins Among the Translations
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
CWR: Critics misrepresent Cardinal Sarah’s call for reverence in receiving Holy Communion by Conor Dugan
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades?
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades?
Monday, March 05, 2018
The introversion/extroversion distinction or spectrum has its roots in Jungian psychology. What to make of this sort of personality analysis?
Sunday, March 04, 2018
Saturday, March 03, 2018
Friday, March 02, 2018
Lost Shepherd
CWR: A Papacy of Contradictions by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church.
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church.
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Fr. Alessio Ulisse, SJ
Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: Opponents of Ostpolitik – Part 2: Father Alessio Ulisse (1920-1986) by Roberto de Mattei
Someone should be canvassing for miracles for him too...
Crisis: The Man Who Was “Ante-Pope”
by Julia Meloni
Before his death in 2012, Cardinal Carlo Martini eerily called himself an “ante-pope,” a “precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.” Martini was the leading antagonist to Popes John Paul...
by Julia Meloni
Before his death in 2012, Cardinal Carlo Martini eerily called himself an “ante-pope,” a “precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.” Martini was the leading antagonist to Popes John Paul...
Popesplaining
CWR Dispatch: New CDF document is clear and succinct, but why was it needed? by Christopher R. Altieri
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus.
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Francis Reformation by Dr. Douglas Farrow
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of course it is. We must ask instead whether it is to be a Church of all the beatitudes.
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of course it is. We must ask instead whether it is to be a Church of all the beatitudes.
The Church is Not a Business
And yet George Weigel thinks that it is one, and that a national Church can be turned into mission territory with proper oversight by Rome. Papal maximalism plus a bad model of the Church. Where is Avery Dulles to offer a comment?
Rethinking “mission territory” by George Weigel
Rethinking “mission territory” by George Weigel
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Another Opponent of Ostpolitik
Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: opponents of Ostpolitik: Monsignor Pavol Maria Hnilica (1921-2006)
Will fears of a new ostpolitik, an ostpolitik chiński, prove to be justified?
Will fears of a new ostpolitik, an ostpolitik chiński, prove to be justified?
Friday, February 23, 2018
The Church
That Frank Built Destroyed
Sandro Magister: New Appeal From Fr. Weinandy To the Pope: With This False Mercy the Church Is Destroyed
Catholic World Report: The Four Marks of the Church: The Contemporary Crisis in Ecclesiology
We need to mount a robust defense and clear advocacy of the Church’s four marks, for without such an apology, the Church’s identity – what she truly is – will become disordered, and so will enfeeble her ability to live and to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Comment: Whatever what one thinks of Roman Catholic ecclesiology as explained here, nonetheless one can ask if the crisis affects the whole Church or just the patriarchate of Rome, and whether the essay could still stand as it is written if we take the crisis to be of the patriarchate of Rome only, or if it would have to be written substantially.
Sandro Magister: New Appeal From Fr. Weinandy To the Pope: With This False Mercy the Church Is Destroyed
Catholic World Report: The Four Marks of the Church: The Contemporary Crisis in Ecclesiology
We need to mount a robust defense and clear advocacy of the Church’s four marks, for without such an apology, the Church’s identity – what she truly is – will become disordered, and so will enfeeble her ability to live and to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Comment: Whatever what one thinks of Roman Catholic ecclesiology as explained here, nonetheless one can ask if the crisis affects the whole Church or just the patriarchate of Rome, and whether the essay could still stand as it is written if we take the crisis to be of the patriarchate of Rome only, or if it would have to be written substantially.
Has the Life of Jorge Bergoglio
map on to the history of the Jesuit order after Vatican 2, especially in Ibero-America?
How Bergoglio Is Rewriting His Life. The Years of the "Great Desolation"
How Bergoglio Is Rewriting His Life. The Years of the "Great Desolation"
Thursday, February 22, 2018
God bless Fr. Rutler.
The Mathematical Innovations of Father Antonio Spadaro by Fr. George W. Rutler
Nearly fifty years go, my parish secretary, who was elderly even then, kept the parish accounts using an abacus. I gave her the latest kind of electric adding machine, which [...]
Nearly fifty years go, my parish secretary, who was elderly even then, kept the parish accounts using an abacus. I gave her the latest kind of electric adding machine, which [...]
Too Bad the Full Text of Fr. Aidan Nichol's Lecture for the English Fellowship of Ss Alban and Sergius Isn't Available
Fr Aidan Nichols, and the Amoris laetitia Crisis UPDATED "Fr Aidan reminded his hearers that Vatican I in fact limited the papacy; and surmised 'it may be that the present crisis of the Roman magisterium is providentially intended to call attention to the limits of the papacy [in regard to teaching]'"
Fr Aidan Nichols and the people "who ought to know better" UPDATED "It is not the position of the Roman Catholic Church that a pope is incapable of leading people astray by false teaching as a public doctor. He may be the supreme appeal judge of Christendom ... but that does not make him immune to perpetrating doctrinal howlers. Surprisingly ... this fact appears to be unknown to many who ought to know better."
Aidan Nichols, Amoris laetitia, and Tucho
The Catholic Herald article from August 2017.
Fr Aidan Nichols and the people "who ought to know better" UPDATED "It is not the position of the Roman Catholic Church that a pope is incapable of leading people astray by false teaching as a public doctor. He may be the supreme appeal judge of Christendom ... but that does not make him immune to perpetrating doctrinal howlers. Surprisingly ... this fact appears to be unknown to many who ought to know better."
Aidan Nichols, Amoris laetitia, and Tucho
The Catholic Herald article from August 2017.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Fr. Paul Nadimi Tarazi
Apparently he is not free from controversy in E. Orthodox circles.
website
SVOTS faculty page
news of his retirement
bio
a discussion thread at orthodoxchristianity.net
website
SVOTS faculty page
news of his retirement
bio
a discussion thread at orthodoxchristianity.net
Monday, February 19, 2018
Eastern Christian Books: The Problems with Orthodox Mysticism
Eastern Christian Books: The Problems with Orthodox Mysticism: Tarazi repeatedly decries the "perversion" that theology--East and West, Jewish and Christian--has wrought to the scripturally revealed God, introducing terminology that is not just unhelpful but unscriptural (ousia, physis, etc)
comment: But what of the Ecumenical Councils?
comment: But what of the Ecumenical Councils?
Crisis: Cardinal Cupich Misreads Vatican II on Conscience by Richard A. Spinello
Just a few short weeks after the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke about Amoris Laetitia as a paradigm shift for the Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago [...]
Just a few short weeks after the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke about Amoris Laetitia as a paradigm shift for the Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago [...]
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Pope Paul the Sad to Be Canonized?
The Roman saint-making machine keeps rolling, for political ends.
Rorate Caeli: The Canonization of Vatican II: The case for Pacelli, revisited
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Crisis: Cardinal Cupich’s Modernist View of the Family by R. Jared Staudt
The accusation of modernism gets thrown around a lot, especially in traditional circles. As a descriptor of heresy, modernism is a vague term. Modernism can refer to a movement of
The accusation of modernism gets thrown around a lot, especially in traditional circles. As a descriptor of heresy, modernism is a vague term. Modernism can refer to a movement of
Friday, February 16, 2018
More on Cardinal Cupich
On Cardinal Cupich’s problematic, convenient conscience by Carl E. Olson
Conscience is not the ground of moral authority; nor is it the final judge when it comes to what is actually moral and true....
Related:
Those Cupich seminars: Why now? by Christopher R. Altieri
Conscience is not the ground of moral authority; nor is it the final judge when it comes to what is actually moral and true....
Related:
Those Cupich seminars: Why now? by Christopher R. Altieri
An Overhaul of the Aristotelian Sciences Is Needed?
Do the categories need to be reconsidered in a way going beyond the phenomenologists (e.g. William Marra)? What about the predicaments? Are the predicaments and attributes/properties confusing to the neophyte to Aristotelian philosophy? While the categories seem to be integral of the Metaphysics, are they so important to the Physics? Can one limit a discussion of change, generation, and corrruption to substance and accident? No, Aristotle does mention alteration of quality, quantity, and place. Out of those three, it seems that the category of quality is the one that may need to be revised in light of a better understanding of the natural world, even if it itself is a rather broad category that includes both color and thought?
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Russell Shaw on Germain Grisez
CWR Dispatch: The quiet, wide-ranging influence of Germain Grisez by Russell Shaw
The late moral theologian, who died on February 1st at the age of 88, had a profound impact on moral theology over the past sixty […]
The late moral theologian, who died on February 1st at the age of 88, had a profound impact on moral theology over the past sixty […]
Couldn't Be Bothered
So the Melkite had to concelebrate with the bishop of Rome in the Roman rite. Understandable. But the bishop of Rome couldn't celebrate Mass ad orientem just this once out of respect for Eastern sensibility?
CNA: Pope of Rome, Melkite Patriarch concelebrate mass
CNA: Pope of Rome, Melkite Patriarch concelebrate mass
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Fr. Rutler on Cardinal Cupich
Crisis Magazine: The Clarity of Cardinal Cupich by Fr. George W. Rutler
Does Fr. Rutler have to worry about Cardinal Dolan and the New York chancery?
Does Fr. Rutler have to worry about Cardinal Dolan and the New York chancery?
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
The Spirit of AL
CWR Dispatch: “The Greatest Sin is losing the sense of Sin” by Eduardo Echeverria
Related: CWR/CNA: Cardinal Cupich launches “Amoris Laetitia” seminars for US bishops
Related: CWR/CNA: Cardinal Cupich launches “Amoris Laetitia” seminars for US bishops
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