"We need to stop seeing the Incarnation as a reaction of God to the Fall, but see the Incarnation as the very purpose of Creation."
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 19, 2020
From the Clips channel. https://t.co/62n918Tdib
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The Byzantine View of the Incarnation
Orthodox Christian Ethics, Morals, and Modernity
Live from Ancient Faith https://t.co/q6NF6w4sdA
— Ancient Faith (@ancientfaith) August 19, 2020
AFR: Fr. Demetrios Harper from Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY joins Fr. Tom Soroka to talk about a challenging but important topic.
A Protestant Defense of the Common Good
A Protestant Defense of the Common Good @jordanballor https://t.co/1y8SyCCCkp via @PublicDiscourse
— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) August 17, 2020
The Public Discourse
Archbishop Elpidophoros to Speak on Orthodox-Catholic Relations in the US
We are delighted to announce that His Eminence Archbishop @Elpidophoros will deliver this year's Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture on Monday, September 21st. The title of his lecture is "The Future of Orthodox-Catholic Relations in the U.S.A."
— Fordham OCSC (@FordhamOrthodox) August 18, 2020
Kenneth Pennington's Course on the History of Canon Law
Don't forget Ken Pennington's entire course on the history of canon law (lectures, materials, etc.) is available free online:https://t.co/LfmJ8BNkgC
— Percy Gryce (@percy_gryce) August 18, 2020
Distributism Discussion at New Polity
"For a long time I lived as a capitalist. I thought it was a great idea: entrepreneurship, productivity, having a free market...But then I learned about history's capitalism."
— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 18, 2020
New pod on distributism // Alex Plato https://t.co/xWAC5m8epK
The "Basil Option"
On Social Justice: The “Basil Option” https://t.co/vlvAWDX4QW
— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) August 16, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Libertarianism and Natural Law on Private Property
— Catholic Culture Podcasts (@CatholicPods) August 18, 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020
Panagia Mouchliotissa
The only Byzantine church that is in operation in Constantinople and, fortunately, was never converted into a mosque, is Panagia Mouchliotissa#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/yYx1hByHzv
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 17, 2020
Vatican II on Eastern Catholics
Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) says that Eastern Catholics should differ from the Orthodox as little as possible.https://t.co/XIIVC3GNoxhttps://t.co/M2roa1NUNf@Todd3337 @BishopBarron @MattGaspers @HicksonMaike @leonardorander @tokiIIthedragon @gvstavvss @notanotherrant
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 17, 2020
Latins will quibble as to what the "as little as possible" part entails.
Brian Butcher on Christian Worship
What is Christian Worship / Liturgy? Dr. Brian Butcherhttps://t.co/NpZm6g9GxD@compellingtruth @dcrump12321 @theryanstratton @aimlikeanarrow
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 16, 2020
Uniformity at the expense of diversity. Diversity a division at the expense of unity.https://t.co/BmEzgcG5Ww
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 15, 2020
Fall 2020https://t.co/i6UMdQwtNL@ikeepnoticing @themarquesito @bradsjoquist @TracyKemme @PrayForUsMary @journalisthasan @Qashakaram @PstSeunSalami @TheologyNetwork
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Holy New Martyr Demetrius
The Orthodox Church commemorates today Holy New Martyr Demetrius#orthodox_times https://t.co/jwhHVx5rm6
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 17, 2020
Alan Fimister Responds to John O'Malley Regarding Vatican II
An objective assessment of the importance of Vatican 2 - the author argues that it is the 17th most important of the ecumenical councils. https://t.co/JDhVD2xvvf
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) August 16, 2020
The Josias: ‘When Bishops Meet’ by Alan Fimister
The Intramural Debate Continues
I asked Archbishop Viganò for a comment on #BishopBarron's recent anti-Traditionalist defense of Vatican II. His response is devastating, especially for those who agree with Bp. Barron. https://t.co/hIU4IMesif
— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) August 16, 2020
Remnant
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Matthew Levering on the Assumption
Must Catholics Insist Upon Mary's Assumption?
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) August 14, 2020
by Matthew Leveringhttps://t.co/brRRwWsQnG
CLJ
Friday, August 14, 2020
Interview with Spyridon Antonopoulos
Don't miss this conversation with Spyridon Antonopoulos with The Autumn Salon. Some wonderful excerpts from his recordings with Psaltikon and more! https://t.co/mmRsYrvadJ
— Cappella Romana (@cappellaromana) August 13, 2020
An interview illustrated with a broad range of musical examples from @SpiroAnton of @CityUniMusic https://t.co/jX0aLWDhbH
— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) August 13, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020
David Bonagura Reviews Pearl of Great Price
"Browne’s book is an innovative telling of a forgotten period of the Catholic Church’s past, and a creative complement to studies on the French Revolution’s enduring impact on Western civilization." - @DavidGBonaguraJ for @ubookman https://t.co/pXl1v8UILO pic.twitter.com/ldMlOzXEcA
— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 13, 2020
Arouca Press
St. Herman of Alaska Chapel Restored on Valaam
St. Herman of Alaska Chapel restored on Valaamhttps://t.co/MAFCekKzZF
— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) August 13, 2020
The chapel was erected on St. Herman’s Field, not far from the place where the Venerable Herman labored in asceticism. pic.twitter.com/i9rTrYweGB
Memory Eternal
The Funeral Service of Father Boris Bobrinskoy was performed at the Orthodox Monastery of Our Lady of All Protection in Bussy-en-Othe, France#orthodox_times https://t.co/RkRSUizIz6
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 13, 2020
An Introduction to the Aritculus
CWR: Reading St. Thomas: A beginner’s guide to the articulus by Joseph G. Trabbic
Most of the things that Thomas deals with whether by way of the question or other methods are quite complicated. But Thomas sees no point in making complicated matters more complicated.
Most of the things that Thomas deals with whether by way of the question or other methods are quite complicated. But Thomas sees no point in making complicated matters more complicated.
Pietro De Marco Proposes an Irenic Discussion of Vatican II
Sandro Magister: For or Against the Council, the Church in the Vortex. Guidelines for a Pacification
But the dialogue is really just for Latins and the patriarchate of Rome -- if Eastern Catholics are meant to be included at all, they are presumed to share the same beliefs as Latin ecclesiology. (Of course, Latins believe that the key points of Latin ecclesiology have already been established as dogma, because of those synods that they claim are ecumenical.) Latins need to realize that this debate is an intramural one and does not pertain to the Church Universal.
The note from Professor De Marco (in Italian).
But the dialogue is really just for Latins and the patriarchate of Rome -- if Eastern Catholics are meant to be included at all, they are presumed to share the same beliefs as Latin ecclesiology. (Of course, Latins believe that the key points of Latin ecclesiology have already been established as dogma, because of those synods that they claim are ecumenical.) Latins need to realize that this debate is an intramural one and does not pertain to the Church Universal.
The note from Professor De Marco (in Italian).
Salvation and Redemption
Salvation & Redemption -- The Early Christian Understanding
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) August 12, 2020
We wish you all peace in this fallen world.https://t.co/9pll49Uqzp pic.twitter.com/fxOTaVhTtK
Gladden Pappin on Bridge Builder Podcast
Delighted to join @MNCatholicConf’s Bridge Builder show to talk about Catholic political thought, different concepts of Church & State, the politics of corporatism, coronavirus & more
— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) August 10, 2020
Check out the podcast here! 👇 https://t.co/x3vskhZOKv https://t.co/tu7Ylczs0l
BridgeBuilder Podcast: Gladden Pappin on Catholic Political Thought, Boundaries Between Church & State and Corporatism
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Active Participation
With the public celebration of Mass still limited in many parts of the country, many Catholic have been watching online and asking "what is active participation?" CNA asked two @FrJamesBradley and @PetriOP https://t.co/KJ7QZ6yPNL
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 6, 2020
A Crisis Point for Latin Ecclesiology Yet?
The fundamental problem with the Catholic Church goes much deeper than Francis. Archbishop Viganò and Fr. Thomas Weinandy debate the mother of all conspiracies... the plot to silence the Catholic Church from within. https://t.co/cZCQm4awDD
— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) August 11, 2020
We know the Vatican - probably issuing from Sect' of State - has ordered certain high - profile persons to crank up the pressure on V-II. Tornielli - in charge of https://t.co/rRo0wBadiH, has issued orders in all language sections to assign someone the task.
— Hilary White (@hilarityjane) August 12, 2020
They're panicking. https://t.co/hzuM87SsNF
CDK on the Family
Thrilled to have my essay published by @Athwart_Mag! In it, I discuss the family’s intimate link to the common good of politica communities. I examine Charles De Koninck’s of the common good and his two antecedents, Aristotle and St. Augustine.https://t.co/gSG2k6HWoJ
— Anthony Daoud (@AnthonyDaoud6) August 12, 2020
More Ordinations for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter invites you to view the Ordination of Messrs. King, Simons, Stockstill, and Woloson to the Sacred Order of Deacon by Most Rev Steven J. Lopes. Feast of Saint Lawrence. From the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham https://t.co/8vMgzxjKnc
— Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (@CSPOrd) August 11, 2020
More on Péguy
"This errand had forced Péguy to break off mid-sentence his writing of a remarkable essay, 'Conjoined Note on Descartes and the Cartesian Philosophy,' now fully in English for the first time as part of Notes on Bergson and Descartes." @wipfandstock https://t.co/AIuuRspOuu
— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Hadley Arkes on Ralph McInerny
Memories of Ralph and Lessons for Lawyers in Crisis | Hadley Arkes: https://t.co/TcvaAacapH pic.twitter.com/2PD7w9tHyJ
— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) August 11, 2020
The Catholic Thing
May God Grant Him Many Years
Archbishop Gänswein: Benedict XVI's Illness Is 'Subsiding' https://t.co/yNqz4xQmSQ @NCRegister
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) August 11, 2020
Edward Slingerland on Chinese Philosophy
"Slingerland takes the bold step here of arguing that we should stop speaking of 'Chinese' philosophy in the first place, as the Chinese of the distant past were grappling with the same philosophical problems that face us today..." @OxUniPress https://t.co/lqcGHX3Fmv
— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 10, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
Francis Beckwith on Aquinas
Hope Leman interviews Baylor philosophy professor Francis Beckwith on why Thomas Aquinas isn't just for Catholics:https://t.co/3AeDKa606z
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) August 10, 2020
Mosaics of St. Lawrence in Ravenna
Mosaics of St. Laurence in the “Mausoleum of Galla Placidia” in Ravenna, Italy
— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) August 10, 2020
Today is the feast of St. Laurence of Rome pic.twitter.com/L9DGbblaT0
Ceres
The dwarf planet Ceres -- long believed to be a barren space rock -- is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed https://t.co/wwozgtd5Vi
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 10, 2020
Aquinas on the Two Powers
St. Thomas on the Two Powers https://t.co/pYxqbs3iJM
— The Josias (@josias_rex) August 10, 2020
important new translation—maybe the first time it has appeared this fullyhttps://t.co/3k9UTJIQqY
— Pat Smith (@smithpatrick08) August 10, 2020
The Josias
Sunday, August 09, 2020
The Tree of the Greek Wise Men
My parish in Vienna recently just completed the iconography on all its walls. 1/3 through liturgy this morning, just realized I was standing under this: the tree of original Greek wise men—i.e. the philosophers.
— Jonathan Greig (@jabgreig) August 9, 2020
Asking my priest about this afterward: “Yes—very Greek thing…” pic.twitter.com/cUSa3DSRNW
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia: Once a Church, Always a Church (essay by Nayeli Riano) https://t.co/QCS0wXQZUc
— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 9, 2020
Imaginative Conservative
English Translation of That Interview with Ulrich Lehner
Link to the German interview here.
It's painful to say it, but it's true. #theology #crisis https://t.co/YOPmXgfEPo
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) August 9, 2020
Saturday, August 08, 2020
Business as Usual for Rome
Pope extends Eastern Catholic Patriarchs’ jurisdiction over Arabian Peninsula - Vatican News https://t.co/di8MnT43By
— Kurt Martens (@DrKurtMartens) August 8, 2020
Vatican News
An Initiation Which Should Have Been Completed When They Were Much Younger
Friends, it was a privilege for me today to preside at the sacrament of Confirmation, which took place at the Santa Clara Parish in Oxnard. Join me in praying for an increase in faith, hope, and charity for these fully initiated Catholics! pic.twitter.com/zDkH9UTsp1
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) August 8, 2020
Friday, August 07, 2020
Charles Péguy
"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics," the French Catholic poet said. What can that mean for an Age of Disenchantment? https://t.co/tgligSZQGw
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 7, 2020
AmConMag
Recep Maraşlı on the Assyrians
"Assyrians are the nation that has lost the most territory in the Middle East. Throughout history, they have experienced the most dreadful massacres and genocides. They have severely suffered from persecution as a result of Islam’s expansion by the sword." https://t.co/LddyYEWMkP
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 7, 2020
AmConMag
St. Paisios on Devotion to the Theotokos
'Hold onto the robe of our Holy Lady Theotokos as tightly as you can, and She will help you. May the Mother of God, the gentle and caring Mother of the whole world, protect you and the whole world.'
— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) August 7, 2020
St Paisios the Athonite.#StElisabethConvent #obitelminsk #belarus #orthodox #god pic.twitter.com/j2CcM9w0Cn
Hiroshima and the Transfiguration
Christian Roy's second wonderful article for The Symbolic World, looking at Hiroshima and the Transfiguration. https://t.co/0DqxIromuQ
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 7, 2020
Memory Eternal!
Fr Boris Bobrinskoy, one of the last of the generation of great Russian émigré theologians--of the era of Meyendorff, Schmemann, & Florovsky--fell asleep in the Lord Thurs. Born in 1925, He served as dean of St Sergius in Paris & authored several SVS Press books. Memory Eternal! pic.twitter.com/Gp5ebpR8uC
— SVS Press (@SVSPress) August 7, 2020
One of the most prominent Orthodox theologians in the West, Father Boris Bobrinskoy, passed away yesterday, August 6, 2020#orthodox_times
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 7, 2020
https://t.co/SKYZrCCLQo
The State of German Theology
Präzise in der Argumentation, detailliert in der Beschreibung, zutreffend auf die Erfahrungswerte: Der @ulrichlehner konstatiert einen bemitleidenswerten Zustand der deutschen #Theologie an Universitäten. Danke für diese Offenheit. 👏
— Moritz Windegger (@moritzwindegger) August 7, 2020
via @CNAdeutsch https://t.co/cC3vudmxOn
On the lost luster of German #theology and its intrigues: #CatholicChurch #Catholic https://t.co/AYmXhtHcV5 via @CNAdeutsch
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) August 7, 2020
Thursday, August 06, 2020
Etymology as Philosophy
A wonderful figura etymologica. And one with an interesting history... https://t.co/H0oFlNeGCo
— Flavius Clemens Grammaticus (@flaviusclemens) August 6, 2020
the whole thread
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Vatican II Still Getting Defended
Think Vatican II is uniquely controversial?
— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) August 5, 2020
The Council of Chalcedon was debated for centuries, a theologian told CNA, and one word used in the Council of Nicea was a source of serious scandal.https://t.co/uhuXWpDwgU
CNA
I suppose we won't see an end to these any time soon.
It Will Probably Do Well in a Niche Market
Cardinal Schuster’s Masterpiece Back in Print for the First Time in Nearly a Century https://t.co/qQu9i61WYJ pic.twitter.com/SMwNxxKuSR
— NLM (@NLMblog) August 5, 2020
NLM
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Fr. Joseph Kentenich
Magister: The Founder of Schönstatt Was Never Rehabilitated. This Letter From Ratzinger Is Proof
Links in German:
Exklusiv: Dokumente bezichtigen Pater Kentenich des sexuellen Missbrauchs
Vorwürfe gegen Kentenich: "Jetzt nicht mehr schweigen"
Ratzinger: Kentenich wurde nicht rehabilitiert
Ratzinger-Brief aufgetaucht: Pater Kentenich nie rehabilitiert worden
Related:
German bishop appoints committee to reevaluate beatification process of Schoenstatt founder
Links in German:
Exklusiv: Dokumente bezichtigen Pater Kentenich des sexuellen Missbrauchs
Vorwürfe gegen Kentenich: "Jetzt nicht mehr schweigen"
Ratzinger: Kentenich wurde nicht rehabilitiert
Ratzinger-Brief aufgetaucht: Pater Kentenich nie rehabilitiert worden
Related:
German bishop appoints committee to reevaluate beatification process of Schoenstatt founder
New Mars Rover
NASA Launches New Rover To Mars To Search For Signs Of Ancient Life https://t.co/N6CL69kW2J
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 30, 2020
Monday, August 03, 2020
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Did you know that the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, edited by Andrew Louth, will include more than 40 new & revised entries by Sheptytsky Institute associates?https://t.co/jKAJUcSI5x@OED @PatBritti @saintjudeshrine @christinkallama @Ugcc_teoficat @archtoronto pic.twitter.com/HuvJqihTNt
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 3, 2020
A Print of a Drawing by Jonathan Pageau
To those of you hoping for a print of St-Kevin of Glengalough, here it is. https://t.co/sopgznSAlw pic.twitter.com/rHSIXXSEah
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 3, 2020
A Moral Theologian Responds to the Vatican COVID-19 Document
Moral Theologian Criticizes 'Vague' @PontAcadLife COVID-19 Document https://t.co/N4oFMLAc7T @NCRegister
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) August 3, 2020
Another Day, Another Product
Friends, it's an exciting day as we celebrate the launch of my newest book, “Renewing Our Hope: Essays for the New Evangelization” (@CUAPress).
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) August 3, 2020
In 17 academic articles, it covers evangelization, the abuse crisis, the priesthood, relativism, and more. https://t.co/qCa3XLgz4B
Sunday, August 02, 2020
May God grant him many years!
Fr. Roman didn’t care what other people said. He did things how they were supposed to be done. Crosses, cassocks, and beards were verboten then. Now, they are the norm. Photo from 1975. #FrRoman50 pic.twitter.com/Cj0v0BMvuU
— Daniel Galadza (@CrunchMasterByz) August 2, 2020
Related:
Fun fact in #CatholicTO history: fifty years ago today at the church where I am a Vicar Bishop Isidore Borecky ordained Fr Roman Galadza, a married man born in Ukraine but displaced by the war, to the priesthood. After the response Bishop did not ordain another married man.
— Fr Alexander Laschuk (@byzkanonist) August 2, 2020
New sample article (PDF)
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 2, 2020
Liturgical Latinization and Kievan Ecumenism: Losing the Koinê of Koinonia
Peter Galadzahttps://t.co/Zr0wOdgmp2@kinstitute @Koinonia_b @CCityCatholic @ThomasACStout @wcgrimley pic.twitter.com/ru1cncKq0W
Confessional Prayer in Old English
A catch-all confessional prayer in Old English:
— Thijs Porck (@thijsporck) August 2, 2020
'I acknowledge all the injustice which I have ever done in my childhood or in my youth or in my strength or in my old age, which I committed after baptism and with many things greatly angered God.' pic.twitter.com/s38vdzzQI7
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Friday, July 31, 2020
Interview with Fr. Thomas Crean OP
I did an interview with Suan Sonna at 'Intelligent Conservatism'. https://t.co/kRVZ2b01UR
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) July 31, 2020
"Open Thomism"
I hold to an "open Thomism," one that welcomes Augustinianism, Bonaventurian thought, and contemporary thinkers like Newman, Balthasar, and Ratzinger. To incorporate these frameworks together is to follow a very integrated Catholic spirit. (2/2) https://t.co/ad7Kk05lSb
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 31, 2020
First Open Thomists need to return to Greek, Scripture, and the Fathers...
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Fr. Panayioti, "The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian East"
A historic lecture given in Wittenburg Germany on the 500-year anniversary of the protestant reformation. Fr. Panayioti weighs in with a lecture called: The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian Easthttps://t.co/Z2GLtp0rpm pic.twitter.com/mUXY6wDQxk
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) July 30, 2020
Medieval Aristotelian Natural Science
Nice introduction to (Aristotelian) natural science in the medieval periode here.https://t.co/nPbZEZl2Sx https://t.co/2UL58h771E
— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) July 30, 2020
Mary Ann Glendon
"Encountering and over time growing in familiarity with Mary Ann’s openness and her passion for the world, the law, and the life of the mind quite literally changed the direction of my life." https://t.co/buwlVFl3hc
— Harvard Law School (@Harvard_Law) July 29, 2020
The Litany of Humility
In this episode Fr. Gregory and Fr. Bonaventure (unironically) discuss the virtue of humility and the Litany of Humility--a favorite prayer of the last century. What about the virtue of humility is so foundational? Why is this prayer so challenging? pic.twitter.com/ApyMJQFTV4
— Godsplaining (@godsplaining) July 30, 2020
A New One from Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Well this should be interesting.... https://t.co/R9KBBsST95
— Fr. Thomas Petri, OP (@PetriOP) July 30, 2020
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Hmm
My new essay for @PostliberalTho1 will probably make Thomists mad.
— Marc Barnes (@BadCatholicBlog) July 29, 2020
But it should make my chief demographic, Catholic homeschooling moms and Lite Lacanians, very happy.
Sub or buy the issue: https://t.co/ysg5o05ReH pic.twitter.com/pB2Q1aodXf
Because Economics is an "Independent" "Science"
Bad writing by philosophers and theologians about economics is a moral issue. If their views about economics are taken seriously—as they often are in churches and in policy advocacy—they threaten the life-changing effects of free markets for the poor. https://t.co/pmgb7k83oN
— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 29, 2020
Public Discourse
John Cavadini on Vatican II
"Viganò’s letter has at least had the virtue of forcing me to emerge from complacency in accepting half-measures in the reception of the Council."
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 29, 2020
Was Vatican II a Bad Seed?
by @JohnCavadini of @McGrathND https://t.co/W3d5IFlZiG
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Public Discourse
Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles, Pierre Manent writes. https://t.co/r6jJ9KmC97
— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 27, 2020
The beginning of this sentence, as it is written in Greek, follows the form of decrees made by Greek cities: “It has seemed good to the council and to the people. . . .” We can see the extraordinary audacity of this borrowed usage. We can also see which teachings this “council of the apostles,” drawing out the consequences of Pentecost, emphasizes for the manner in which we must understand “the fact of the Church.” This is not the Church copied from the form of the empire, a prideful power among prideful powers; this is the Church scarcely born, under the direction of Peter, an association deprived of everything that gives strength and credit to a human association. It is this Church that declares her power and her right to deliberate and decide as the human city deliberates and decides. In short, the Church has the form and consistency of a city.
Today Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the throne and altar, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles. If the Church today is something other than the sum of our nostalgias—or the print left behind by a “big thing” that we don’t know the meaning of, only we know that it does not concern us any more—it is because she is something other than an association of individuals exercising their right to have opinions. She is a kind of city, a “commanding form” in which a specific work is conducted, a work that operates on the whole man and is proposed to all men—this work that the Church in her weighty but clear language calls “sanctification” and whose source and body dwell in the sacrifice of the Mass.
Sacrifice, Again
From my book, "First Comes Love." May God bless you today! pic.twitter.com/8nAxLctsqj
— Scott Hahn (@DrScottHahn) July 28, 2020
Another Defense of Vatican II
An older essay, from 2012.
CWR: The True Spirit of Vatican II by Douglas Bushman
The main desire of the Council was to reinvigorate the Church’s mission of promoting a fully human life in Jesus Christ.
CWR: The True Spirit of Vatican II by Douglas Bushman
The main desire of the Council was to reinvigorate the Church’s mission of promoting a fully human life in Jesus Christ.
Fr. Weinandy Replies to Vatican II Critics
Father Thomas Weinandy writing a thoughtful reflection on recent attempts to criticize and blame Vatican II....
— Fr. Thomas Petri, OP (@PetriOP) July 27, 2020
https://t.co/q4Pva2k6z8
ITV
Monday, July 27, 2020
Gerald Russello Reviews Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason by Pierre Manent
City Journal
Natural Law for Modern Times | City Journal https://t.co/nL7cjheOHL
— Allen Mendenhall (@allenmendenhall) July 27, 2020
A Shame
Nothing so eloquently symbolizes the optimism and errors of the Catholic Church in the 1960s than the ruins of the hideous St. Peter's Seminary in Scotland. https://t.co/KLhWVosTKc via @church_militant
— Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) July 27, 2020
A Complaint about the Lack of Collegiality
What Church has Cardinal Marx been in all these years? Since when does the Pope or the Church need a quorum to issue a teaching? This is why the papacy exists: to teach, correct and protect doctrine. Endless synods are not practical or necessary. Thoughts? https://t.co/gHdJ4XnPbi
— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) July 27, 2020
Cardinal Kasper aptly defends the Vatican instruction on parish reform against German critics: Reform begins with conversion - and that is something German bishops do not like to hear. Good for Kasper to speak out! https://t.co/0hckgGcoHc #Theology #Vatican #Parish #Catholic
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) July 27, 2020
The Just Price
Here's my latest episode:
— Catholic Economics Podcast (@CatholicEcon) July 27, 2020
Understanding Just Price | Ep 57
YouTube: https://t.co/YhfSCsdm3s
Audio: https://t.co/pVRtDvdkUK
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Plotinus as Progress
All this suggests that a Trinitarian ontology will naturally tend to revise Aristotle. Perhaps even more than Aquinas did, though he did revise Aristotelian metaphysics both neoplatonically and for doctrinal reasons. (As neo-Thomism ignores.)
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020
For Plato and Plotinus there are five genres of being, rest, motion, same and other that are really more like transcendentals. In fully real intelligible reality they fully coincide. In material reality they more tend to exclude each other and come in degrees.
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020
Plotinus also questions Aristotle’s distinction of action and making. For him even action as thought moves, goes out from itself, emanates. Augustine and Aquinas’s thought on verbum is jn this lineage. (Lonergan totally wrong here.)
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Another Interview with Archbishop Viganò
VIGANÒ, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. THE POPE AND THE SODOMITES https://t.co/2udM67vv0F
— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) July 25, 2020
Two Perspectives on Vatican II
The first is from theologian and bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla, as relayed by Sandro Magister: A Bishop and Theologian Breaks the Silence Over the “Banality” of Viganò and Company
And the following is from Adam DeVille: Vatican II as “chosen trauma” and “chosen glory”.
In fact, this is the contribution of the most significant statements of this last decade, before, during, and after Pope Benedict's statement in 2005.
We could outline the theme of the legacy in three moves:
a) Vatican II as style: to resume the original way in which the council fathers (which historical studies have made known to us) posed problems with the method and resources that they put to work in order to propose a response to the challenges of their time in the interaction between subjects, textual “corpus,” and new readers;
b) the principle of pastorality: to bring out the originality of Vatican II, its creative ideas and its basic intuitions in the areas of both method and content;
c) the future of the Council: to rediscover the state of invention that characterized that epochal turning point and that today needs, at the beginning of the third millennium, a creative recovery and a new ecclesial pragmatics.
And the following is from Adam DeVille: Vatican II as “chosen trauma” and “chosen glory”.
If nothing else, the decision to be faced by Catholics today is whether we will allow ourselves to manifest the maturity necessary to stop treating Vatican II as either a trauma or a glory and instead to see it as all councils from our past: an event where some of the crooked lines of human history were used by God to write straight the salvation of the world. If He is content to leave some lines askew on the page, some tares and wheat in the fields of the Church until the end of the age (cf. Matt. 13: 24-30), why can we not grant ourselves the same freedom to stop clinging to pseudo-intellectual genealogies helpful to nobody and instead get to work healing today’s myriad crises in Church and world alike?Even though DeVille is Ukrainian Catholic, he assumes that Vatican II was an ecumenical council, or at least a council of both Roman Catholics and of Eastern Catholics. As far as I'm concerned, even if various Eastern Catholic bishops signed the documents, that does not make Vatican II an ecumenical council, and even the claim that it was a "general" council of the churches in communion with the bishop of Rome is question, given the lack of equal weight given to Eastern perspectives. I see it in content and function as being a synod of the Latin churches in communion with the bishop of Rome, and it needs to be understood carefully: not as an ecumenical council, but as a Latin council with certain pretensions, to be historically situated in the development of the Roman papacy in the second millenium and with reference to the claims of Rome, which go back to the first millenium. It also must be understood with the proximate and not-so-proximate causes that lead up to the council, which explain why Latin bishops and theologians thought some sort of reform was necessary.
Friday, July 24, 2020
Herbert McCabe, O.P. on St. Thomas Aquinas
A Very Short Introduction to Aquinas
— Artur Sebastian Rosman (@cosmostheinlost) July 24, 2020
by Herbert McCabe, OP
A special thanks to @EMWillette1020 of @BloomsburyBooks for giving me permission to reprint this amazing essay in @ChurchLifeND https://t.co/iyb6YTS5U6
A Different Notion of Sacrifice
Friends, the Mass is our joining together with Christ’s selfless sacrifice, the eternal act of praise.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 24, 2020
Because of the all-encompassing nature of worship, there is a tight link between liturgy and the transformation of the world.
Watch the full video: https://t.co/vlZyazVzro pic.twitter.com/Lx0hbqCuW5
Therefore, highlighting the Mass isn’t an exercise in irrelevant fussiness; it is rather an emphasizing of the public witness of the Church. Watch the video for more.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 24, 2020
Watch the video on YouTube: https://t.co/lmPQZTCzEe (2/2)
Thursday, July 23, 2020
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