Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A Review of Maximos Vgenopoulos's Essay


Orientalium ecclesiarum, 50 Years Later


Charismatic Enough to Recruit at Home?

Or will the chastisement continue?


Notes on Arab Orthodoxy: Syriac in Georgian Chant

The 'Return to the Sources' and Marian Theology and Devotion in the Contemporary Church

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Archbishop Di Noia's Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday


Aquinas on God Conference


Still Skeptical


Not All Dominican Houses Are Equal

"Habits are relics of the past."


Do Theologians Really Have That Much to Say on This?



Especially if the digital age will not last much longer?

Sign and Source of the Church: Mary in the Theology of the Ressourcement

Monday, April 28, 2014

Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius

Ciborium/baldachin over the altar/Holy Table!

Fr. Robert Barron, Looking At the World Through Rose Tinted Glasses?



Mariology as Theological Anthropology: Louis Bouyer on Mary, Seat of Wisdom.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Dan Gilbert on Happiness


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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Chant and Choral Music of Early Christianity


Thanksgiving Mass for the Canonization of Jose de Anchieta

24 April 2014, Thanksgiving Mass by the Holy Father for the Canonization of Jose de Anchieta at the Church of St. Ignatius, Rome

Eastern Province Ordinations


The Icon of Pascha


Medieval (Latin) Christians


"Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment"


Sister Vassa to Lecture in Boston!


What One Would Expect from SCU



I don't expect the local Latin bishop to do anything about this.
CFN: The "Canonizations": CFN interviews Professor Roberto de Mattei

Someone I knew at Christendom was in the area several months ago to give a talk at the DSPT on canonization. He wrote this article on the same topic for Crisis.

Is there an analogy between canonization and canon law, such that the pope does not have authority to promulgate something that is binding upon the whole Church in these two respects, the liturgical calendar (and official cultus) and canon law? For those who believe that the Eastern churches do not have to accept anything of the exercise of the papal office beyond what was done in the first millenium, is there anything in Church History during the first millenium that would uphold this sort of authority for the bishop of Rome? Can the pope declare (or teach) that someone (Roman-rite or otherwise?) is a saint and have it binding on the Church Universal? (It may be that some who believe that such proclamations are instances of papal infallibility must do so because they believe that this is part of the pope's authority with respect to the Church Universal, rather than as a part of his authority as "Patriarch of the West.")

Friday, April 25, 2014

Chiesa: The Last Pope-King by Sandro Magister
Two of his predecessors made saints instead of only one. The Italian episcopal conference annihilated. The men of the old guard still at the helm of the IOR. All as Francis commands

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Pascha Homily by Archbishop Di Noia, O.P.


Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Blessed Leonid Feodorov

From this thread at Byzantine Catholic Forums: Exarch Fyodorov: Truth and Darkness - trailer

Friday, April 18, 2014

Medieval Depictions of the Crucifixion


Holy and Great Friday

Capella Romana: For Holy Friday: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a Tree
Today, for Holy Friday, sung in the original medieval melody


Pravmir: The Historical Development of Holy Week Services In the Orthodox/Byzantine Rite

Related:
St. Athanasius on Why Christ Had to Die

Thursday, April 17, 2014

From Several Months Ago... How Do His Defenders Respond?



We have the same Father? No one comes to the Father except through the Son. No one can call Him Father without help of the Holy Spirit.

Those who become adopted sons and daughters of God through baptism become co-heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ. Is God the Father our Father regardless of whether we accept His offer of [adopted] sonship? Or is "Father" being used here in the same sense as "Creator"?

His comments seem dangerously muddled and close to promoting indifferentism within the "Abrahamic" or great "monotheistic" religions.

A Return to a More Classical Style of Iconography?

Zenit and other Latin Catholic news agencies have been positing icons and mosaics for Holy Week - good for them.


Viri selecti?



Fr Z and Rorate Caeli

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

NCReg: Strong Rebuttal to Metropolitan Hilarion's "Offensive Remarks" by Edward Pentin

Materialists...


Chiesa: The Joys and Sorrows of Francis's Magisterium by Sandro Magister
The innovation in method of "Evangelii Gaudium" explained by an Australian theologian. But the pope is not always interpreted correctly. Not even by the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica." The emblematic case of the baptism in Córdoba

Monday, April 14, 2014

Photos: Fr. Thomas Joseph White at the DSPT



Video of the lecture to come.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

Feser Lecture at TAC


Thursday, April 10, 2014

An Interesting Marketing Attempt

Not "Creed" or the Latin translliteration(?), symbolum, but the Greek symbolon.


An attempt to make it seem more "classical" or Biblical? To show the continuity with the early Church?

Ignatius Press
Lighthouse Catholic Media

CRC: INFALLIBLE ? THE PRECEDENT SET BY SAINT PHILOMENA.

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

The Pope's New Catechetical Cycle: The Holy Spirit




The Cardinal Newman Society: Bioethics Expert Explains Harmony between Science and Faith at Christendom College
Dominicans, Western Province: Ordinations 2014

Fr. Cassian and Raymond Arroyo


Pope Emeritus

Sandro Magister, The Pope's Third Embodiment
It is Benedict XVI's state of life after the resignation. He is no longer the vicar of Christ, but neither has he returned to private life. He is "pope emeritus," and he acts as such: an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Libertine Atheism

Sandro Magister, The Pope and the Philosopher
His name is Alberto Methol Ferré. It is from him that Bergoglio draws his inspiration in evaluating the world and contrasting the new dominant culture: "libertine atheism." The pope's strict side with Obama

Bishop Aquila on Confirmation

"Send Forth Your Spirit"
On the Sacrament of Confirmation By Bishop Samuel J. Aquila
2011 Hillenbrand Lecture: The Sacrament of Confirmation - EWTN archive
Restoring the source and summit of faith
Denver archbishop advocates reordering of confirmation to liturgical commission

Monday, April 07, 2014

Upcoming William Carroll Talk


Thomistica.net: Essays on Garrigou-Lagrange

Sunday, April 06, 2014

NCReg Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity by EDWARD PENTIN
An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.

There Should Be a Version for the Latins

OCN: Every Time I Do My Cross by Presvytera Vassi Haros

To purchase the book go here.
Pravmir: Women and the Priesthood
The fact that women became equal to men in many spheres of human life, including politics, has nothing to do with the church order. In order to introduce female priesthood we need a new Revelation as powerful as the Revelation of the New Testament, and the creation of a New Testament Church. Since such a Revelation has not happened, we cannot make any radical changes to the established church order.


Saturday, April 05, 2014

Abeer Nehme

in Arabic?

A Needed Pastoral Solution for... Priests?

Oratories and other societies of apostolic life.

Priests Battle the Pouring Dark of Loneliness
The temptation of loneliness can haunt priests alone at their parishes, but a variety of priestly fraternities are giving them ways of finding community with brother priests to sustain them.

Popular Buddhism

Courtesy of TED, of course.

Post by TED.

A Little Too Late to Save American Academia?


Catholic World Report: Mysticism, Monasticism, and the New Evangelization by Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis (Holy Ressurection Monastery) and Benjamin Mann

Friday, April 04, 2014

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on St. Benedict


In Adam, Perhaps



Not in Christ necessarily - there is no way for us to know if this is the case and there are signs that this is unlikely.

St. Mary of Egypt


Thursday, April 03, 2014

Ignatius Press tbt


Between Constantinople and Rome


Next Friday at the DSPT

DSPT Events

Dumb Ox Theology Forum: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP - Aquinas on Imperfect Happiness: Nature, Grace and the Final End of Man

Friday, April 11, 2014 DSPT Dumb Ox

Both Karl Barth and Henri De Lubac provided powerful, compelling visions of the relationship between the grace of God and human nature. However, their visions are in many respects opposed and incompatible. In his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas focuses on the imperfection of all natural human happiness, and on the natural desire for God. How does his vision provide a potential bridge between the diverse theologies of Barth and De Lubac?

Dumb Ox Theological Forum


Man, missed this - don't recall seeing it on my FB feed:

November 12, 2013 - Dr. Donald S. Prudlo jsu.edu , Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval History, Jacksonville State University - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation

Ever since the definition of Papal Infallibility at the First Vatican Council, there has been a lively debate in the Church about its meaning. This talk will address the roots of that doctrine in the middle ages, and in particular trace its development in the practice of the canonization of saints.
DSPT Dumb Ox Theology Forum - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation Papal canonization did not really begin to take off until the 12th century. The challenge quickly became how to understand it apart from local and episcopal canonizations. At the same time various groups of heretics were beginning to challenge the doctrine of the Communion of saints, as well as the cultic practices of Christianity surrounding the tombs of its holy ones. In the 13th century the papacy and the new Mendicant orders established a symbiotic relationship that saw the elevation of Franciscan and Dominican saints. Some of these had been intimately involved in the suppression of heresy. Criticism of the cult of saints moved from the general to the particular, as individual saints came under attack. This forced the papacy and the Mendicant theologians to examine more closely the doctrine of papal canonization. By the end of
the thirteenth century, the difference had been established: papal canonizations enjoyed infallibility.
Canonization lies at the root of the personal infallibility dogma, and this will be the subject of the lecture.
Inside the Vatican: Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk – Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Related: "INSIDE THE VATICAN" MAGAZINE NAMED UGCC HEAD AMONG TOP 10 PEOPLE OF 2013

Prayer


Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Orthodoxy & Heteodoxy: The Ecumenism of Fr. Georges Florovsky by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Capella Romana Performing at the Getty in May


Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Proof, So the Popularizers Say


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