Monday, September 04, 2017

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.



Saturday, September 02, 2017

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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Friday, September 01, 2017

CWR: “Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology by Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD

Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality?

An Academic Appointment of Some Interest

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Two Jesuits Respond to the Nashville Statement

CWR: When some Christians affirm traditional moral teaching, other Christians freak out by Carl E. Olson

The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years.

Sandro Magister: The Counter-Statement of Cardinal Sarah

Tuesday, August 29, 2017