Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: ROCOR Says Overlapping Dioceses are Canonical: An Ecclesiological Analysis by Nathaniel McCallum

Byzantine, Texas

What if...

The Assyrians had been successful in evangelizing China?

Pravoslavie: Burial of Nestorian Christians Discovered in China

Daily Mail: Carthaginians Sacrificed Own Children - Antiquity

Catholic Online: The Monk Named Benedict in the Vatican Cloister and the Need for a Monastic Revival

What to do about Vatican II?

Fr. Hunwicke on "The Big Lie" and Moving On by Peter Kwasniewski
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Related:
Beyond Pius V, by Andrea Grillo - Review by Dom Alcuin Reid

A Foretaste of Wisdom: Liturgical History and the Novus Ordo

The Legacy of Joseph Ratzinger?

Two new books from Ignatius Press:

Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works, Theology of the Liturgy

This major volume is a collection of the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) on the theology of the Liturgy of the Church, a subject of preeminence to him as a theologian, professor and spiritual writer. It brings together all his writings on the subject, short and long, giving his views on liturgical matters and questions over many years and from various perspectives.

He chose to have his writings on the Liturgy for the first volume published of his collected works (though listed as vol. 11) because, as he says in the Introduction: "The liturgy of the Church has been for me since my childhood the central reality of my life, and it became the center of my theological efforts. I chose fundamental theology as my field because I wanted first and foremost to examine thoroughly the question: Why do we believe? But also included from the beginning in this question was the other question of the right response to God and, thus, the question of the liturgy."

Pope Benedict Sets the Course by Gero P. Weishaupt
The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI and the Explanatory Letter to the Bishops

Dr. Anthony P. Andres on Chance

TAC: Lecture, Dr. Anthony P. Andres: “Does God Play Dice With The World?”

OP East: A Guide to Happiness: Audio Recording

Coptic Monastery of Saint Shenouda (website):

Post by Coptic Monastery of Saint Shenouda.

Christology and the Council of Chalcedon, by Fr. Shenouda M. Ishak

Sandro Magister: The Curia of Francis, Paradise of the Multinationals

Blobs of Tissue

Here Are 12 Unborn Animals In The Womb. They're Absolutely Beautiful...Especially The Dolphin.

Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood - Saint Petersburg

Eastern Christian Books: Female Deacons in the East

What has been the teaching and historical practice of the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox churches regarding deaconesses? I have read the claim that the Greek word for "ordination" or "ordained" was used without specifically referring to the sacrament of orders, but I don't know how true this claim is. (For that matter, what is the position of the non-Chalcedonian churches on clerical celibacy/continence?)

Sr. Vassa Larin on Peanut Butter Toast

Post by Scott Tietje.

Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection

Eastern Dominicans: February 2014 Vocation Weekend

Why is Vatican II So Vexing? by Peter Kwasniewski


A subtitled version of the presentation given by Mons. Brunero Gherardini at the conference organized by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Rome, December 2010.

Transcript

2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium
June 12-15, 2014
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY (Greater Cincinnati)

"The services will feature liturgical music composed mostly in the last 20 years and will be conducted by Irene Riazanova."
So, not so traditional?

City Journal Review of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal

City Journal: Sacred Revival by Colette Arredondo
A Catholic architect calls for churches that “look like churches.”

I actually received this book as a gift for Christmas - looking forward to reading it. Now if only Mr. Stroik would do a study of Byzantine architecture...

Duncan Stroik - faculty page
Hillenbrand Books


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Originality and Tradition

Duncan Stroik's YT channel

This essay, "Where East Meets West is Best," got me thinking about an English Gothic and Byzantine hybrid design for a temple. Not like the 'wholly' Byzantine style of Westminster Cathedral. I can visualize how a temple without a dome might incorporate some features of Gothic architecture, Gothic arches - it might be more (neo-)Gothic than Byzantine, in some respects - imagine transforming St. Ignatius Church with an iconostasis, for example. A neo-Gothic temple that is more of a square than the Latin cruciform shape - is that possible? Is it possible to construct a wooden dome, with ribs/slices? I think there are some Orthodox temples near here that have domes not made from stone or concrete, but I could be wrong about the construction material.