Lefebvriani, la risposta positiva è arrivata (via Fr. Z) - Rorate Caeli

A different take: St. Pius X Society gives mixed response to Vatican

The Interior Life by Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J (ia Insight Scoop)

Logos Bringing Aquinas’ Other Works into English

James Chastek, Two answers to “why do we form political associations?”

Plato says that the city arises from an individual’s inability to meet his own physical needs; Aristotle says that it arises because men are political by nature. At first glace, it seems like Aristotle’s account is facile, or even that it is no explanation at all: “men are naturally political because they are political by nature! What an insight!” But Aristotle’s explanation is the better one. In effect, he is insisting that political life is irreducible. It is not the result of a more fundamental drive or desire – political life itself is the fundamental desire, and it would remain so even if it was not as good at meeting physical needs. This is why his Politics doesn’t begin by considering the individual (and his needs) as the principle of a society, but takes communal life as irreducible.

How many modern political theories start with the good of the individual and the myth that society originates in the need of individuals to cooperate for survival?

But if political life is a basic and irreducible need, then just regimes must at least strive to make the regime a place in which the citizens can be truly politically active. Again, where political order reduces to physical need, the Leviathan-state is possible and perhaps even desirable; but where an individual’s political life is an irreducible reality, the Leviathan-state is in flagrant contradiction with the first principle of politics, since no one can lead a political life in the Leviathan state. The Leviathan might meet all the individual’s physical needs, but it does not allow his political actions to make anything beyond a negligible difference.

Political friendship, by the nature of friendship, is ordered to some measure of equality? (Or that constitution known as republic/polity?)

St. Thomas and the Keeping of Pets

Might some pets (e.g. dogs) be more suited to be companions for man than others?

OP: Initial formation: between postmodernity and new evangelisation

PASCHA "As Smoke Vanishes...let them vanish" St. Elias Church

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI: Celebrating his birthday and election as Pope




My Brother the Pope by Georg Ratzinger and Michael Hesemann

Cardinal Raymond Burke Discussing Religious Freedom (video)

Some beautiful iconostases

Paschal troparion | Russian Patriarchate Choir | Anatoly Grindenko direction


Haven't decided if I will attend Russian Pasha vigil liturgy tonight or not.

The Sperm of Sea Urchins and the Directedness of Natural Processes by William Carroll

Urgent/For the record:Le Figaro - "Rome and Écône on the verge of reaching an agreement" (Rorate Caeli)

The Remnant: The Ides of April by Stephen Dupuy
Some thoughts on the Society's Imminent Response to Rome

James Chastek, Re-evaluation of First Matter

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.