Pope and Pope

Pope Francis on Monday received the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pope Matthias I, in the...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, February 29, 2016

Pope Francis urged world leaders to “promote peaceful coexistence” in the face of “a devastating outbreak of violence...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, February 29, 2016

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Pope Francis was presented two publications of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 24 February, at the close of a...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, February 29, 2016

Solovyov: A Bit too Enamored with the Western Church?

After all, who got two feast days? St. Nicholas, the bishop... did the Byzantine Empire cease having bishops after the first millenium?
His comments on St. John Cassian, Feb. 29.

Chiesa: Teacher’s Pets in the School of Francis: The Bishops of the Philippines

They have encouraged the faithful in the use of contraception “in circumstances that invite a re-evaluation of the ban.” As suggested by the pope, when asked about the Zika virus

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Paul VI and the Nuns Raped in the Congo. What the Pope Never Said
First Francis and then Fr. Lombardi have restated for the umpteenth time that pope Montini permitted those nuns to take birth control pills. But that’s false. Here is how that urban legend was born. And what the true status of the question is

Ed Peters: Misunderstanding the (alleged) ‘Congo contraception’ case

Janet Smith

Orthodox Spiritual Life: The Liturgy as Our Life, by Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

Eastern Christian Books: New Publication from the Pope!

Eastern Christian Books: New Publication from the Pope!

CWR: The Jesuit, the Monk, and the Malaise of the West by Dr. Samuel Gregg
The persistence of Joachimism over so many centuries suggests that, for all its vaunted secularism, the West remains profoundly religious in character.

Reform the Funeral Rites!

A Salutary Corrective in Scalia’s Funeral by Fr. Mark A. Pilon

The Scalia Funeral: A Reminder of What Life is Really About
The funeral Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia presented a true glory each of us needs to behold so that we will rejoice in the life and hope that is given to us.
By James V. Schall, S.J.

Likely to Persuade the Russians?

Or just more useless polemics?

Russian Orthodox Projections and Catholic Corrections by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille

In the aftermath of the Havana meeting, one can spot at least three examples of Russian projection, accusing Catholics of behaviors the Russians themselves engage in, but are too afraid to admit.

Website of the Church of the Protection of the Holy Mother of God

Mentioned here - website.

Romanesque Iconography

Posted by Orthodox Arts Journal on Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Eastern Christian Books: The Fathers on the Scriptures

Eastern Christian Books: The Fathers on the Scriptures

-- on a volume of essays edited by Fr. Matthew Baker and Mark Mourachian (Fortress Press). The anniversary of Fr. Matthew's passing is next week.

And yet, Robert George recommended this...

That's the world, especially academia. "Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours..."


Sexuality and Gender Studies: Practical and Political Sources, Theoretical Frameworks, and Recent Debates
July 18-22
Berkeley Institute, Berkeley CA

Featuring Neville Hoad, who looks like a true believer in queer theory and the like, and Candace Vogler, who started her academic career as a feminist. Did she have a conversion experience, or does she remain a feminist in analytic Thomist's clothing?

Ignatius Press on Google Books

Smart marketing move? At least I can preview Christoph Schönborn's Jesus' School of Life before deciding whether to buy the book...

Vocations Retreat at St. Tikhon's

Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary will host its annual Vocations Retreat on April 22­-23, 2016.http://myocn.net/st-tikhons-to-host-annual-vocations-retreat/

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, February 22, 2016

Byzantine Aesthetics

Exploring Byzantine Aesthetics and how a better understanding of them appreciate byzantine beauty.http://myocn.net/exploring-byzantine-aesthetics/

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Tradition

"Metropolitan Pavlos of Sisanio and Siatista at a public discussion speaks for tradition and modernization"

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, February 23, 2016

David Clayton Comments on the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God

NLM

Called to Be the Children of God is available for pre-order but I don't see a release date.

More "Eastern" Versions of the Divine Mercy Image

at Crossroads Initiative: Blood and Water From His Side – Chrysostom

More on Psychological Solidarity

In the exposition of why the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity became man, some will talk about how it was so that the Word would have psychological solidarity with us, feeling and experiencing pain, suffering, and death as we do. This is in contrast to the knowledge God would have of such things as cause -- what is important here is the "subjectivity." But is this really such a good reason? Are human beings such "special snowflakes" that God the Son must experience "human subjectivity" to become one of us? Or does God the Son become man not so that he can be accounted one of us, not as fallen but experiencing the consequences of original sin nonetheless, but so that He might elevate us to the divine? (After all, if we accept that subjectivity is important, why can we not say that Christ must experience temptation as we do, that is in a way that involves disordered appetite, in order to be one of us?)