Sandro Magister: That Strange Mass the Pope Doesn't Like
It is the Mass according to the rite of the Neocatechumenal Way. Benedict XVI has ordered the congregation for the doctrine of the faith to examine it thoroughly. Its condemnation appears to be sealed

For the Lefebvrists, It's the Last Call to the Sheepfold
Otherwise it's schism. But Rome will do everything possible to avoid the irreparable. From Australia, the theologian John Lamont shows that reconciliation is possible

Was Robert Bellarmine Ahead of His Time? (via Insight Scoop)

Reviewed: Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth. By Stefania Tutino (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-19974-053-6.

On Temporal and Spiritual Authority. By Robert Bellarmine. Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stefania Tutino (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2012), 500 pp. PB: ISBN 978-0-86597-717-4.

Jimmy Akin: A Day of Shame in Christian History

Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagel


Thomistic Circles Symposium on Creation and Modern Science (via Edward Feser)

Eileen Sweeney has a new book out: Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word.

Recently uploaded - Living Tradition No. 150: Father Feeney and the Implicitum Votum Ecclesiae Part B. Reading Cantate Domino, Unam Sanctam, and the 1949 Letter in a Hermeneutic of Continuity

How many issues of RT were there last year? No. 150 is dated January 2011.

It's been a while since I've looked at Amy Welborn's blog. She recently wrote a post on Fr. Augustine Thompson's new biography of St. Francis of Assisi.

Nicolas Gombert: Regina Coeli - Marian Antiphon for 12 voices

Alexander Agricola: Regina Caeli

Ethiopian Iconography (Photo Report)

CUA Press: Select philosophy titles on sale

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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

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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)