Monday, March 18, 2019

The Church or the Patriarchate of Rome?

Does he recognize that there is a difference?

America/CNS: Cardinal Marx: church needs to seriously discuss celibacy, role of women and sexual morality

Eternal Memory

OCA: Remembering Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko
SYOSSET, NY [OCA]

Today—March 18, 2019—marks the fourth anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko, Dean Emeritus of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY, and noted Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, preacher, and speaker. ...

Adam DeVille's New Book

Angelico Press announces: A radical proposal for confronting the crisis in the Church


Angelico Press: Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power by ADAM A. J. DEVILLE

St. Thomas and the Supreme Court: Natural Law, Human Rights, and the Ethics of the Angelic Doctor

Update from Norcia

Fr. Z: News from the great Benedictines at Norcia: building, dogs, liturgy, beer

Their website.
Birra Nursia



The sound of the chant is not as bad as that typically produced by the French/Solesmes school.

Out of Time

Evolution. As for that supposed 98+% genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees...

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Fr. John Whiteford on Constantinople and Ukraine

OrthoChristian: ”THE WATERS HAVE BEEN MUDDIED” An Interview with Fr. John Whiteford on the Ukrainian Crisis and the Judgment of God
by Archpriest John Whiteford, Jesse Dominick
Since I became Orthodox, one of the big things I have been concerned with is trying to bring people into the Church. It’s harder to bring people into the Church now because it’s harder to explain what Orthodoxy is.

Theology of Presbyterate/Episcopate

MASCULINITY AND THE LITURGY by Fr. Thomas Loya

If the priest acts in persona Christi, how does he strengthen the "mystical understanding of his husbandhood and fatherhood"? Do presbyters participate in Christ's role as Bridegroom/Husband for the Church as the Mystical Bride? Not directly but as intermediaries or representatives of Christ who teach and lead, subordinate to Christ and the Holy Spirit. But in what way is Christ analogous to the human husband? Who would claim that Christ and the Church share some sort of egalitarian or even a complementarian relationship?