A blessed and Holy Pascha to all!

Julia Annas has written a book, another in the project of recovering virtue ethics for "the modern age": Intelligent Virtue. A review here.


More:
Virtue Ethics: what kind of naturalism?
The Phenomenology of Virtue
Virtue as a Skill
Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing
Virtue Ethics and Social Psychology

An essay in philosophy in biology referencing her.
Aristotle on human nature and political virtue

(see this comment)

Morality and Virtue: An Assessment of Some Recent Work in Virtue Ethics by David Copp and David Sobel

Aristotelian ethical and political naturalism

Confusion About Discrimination by Richard W. Garnett

Mystagogy: The Tragedy of Russia's Abandoned Wooden Churches

Another John Behr lecture (via MB).

Sandro Magister, Vatican Diary / The focolarini's conquest of the curia
Vatican Diary / The Holy Office at the click of a mouse

The Lamentations For The Lord (Romanian Orthodox Church Music)

Byzantine, Texas: NBC to air Orthodox Paschal service

It will not be shown in the SF Bay Area. But it will be shown in SLO.

More links for Fr. Ramirez

Santiago Ramírez, O.P., su vida y su obra
Edicion de las obras completas de Santiago Ramírez, O.P.
A bio (in Spanish).

Éditeur Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC / Instituto «Luis Vives» de Filosofía
CSIC

Klubertanz and Ramirez by Tom Osborne

I used to have a bookmark at BAC? for books by Fr. Ramirez, but his books appear out of print now? The bookmark is on another hard drive, so I can't look it up now. Maybe someone over at the Thomism YG or Ite Ad Thomam would have more info.

Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions, edited by Michael J. Christensen and Jeffery A. Wittung (via 8th Day Books)

The frailties of men

Could Byzantium have been saved?

The First Crusade, the true story

Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *

Harvard University Press & Random House UK

A review in The Tablet.

Tristis est anima mea - University of Utah Singers

Catholicism Producer Speaks About the Friars

Catholicism Project: Filmmaker Mike Leonard from Province of Saint Joseph on Vimeo.

Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ: Creation and the New Cosmology
(via this link)

The Shocking Truth about Christian Orthodoxy - John Behr

Thomistica.net: Hypothetical Disqualification of Dogma? by Christopher J. Malloy

Metaphysics, the Middle Ages and the Birth of Protestantism - a review of Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation (via The Smith)

One might think that a committed Protestant would have a stake in showing that the Protestant Reformers were not determined in their teachings by their acceptance of bad medieval metaphysics, but I think that the claim in the critique that the metaphysical views of the Reformers were widely divergent (not all were followers of Ockham or Soctus) is something we should attend.

A new book on the way from Dr. Rao

An interview with Dr. John Rao - The Remnant: Black Legends and the Light of the World (New Blockbuster History Book on the Horizon)