Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Count on the Dominicans...

Vatican Insider: Does the Successor of Peter need “theological structuring”?

Interview with Fr. Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole, O.P.

Turning point?

Jewish Catholic relations were under the spotlight in the Vatican on Monday as Pope Francis met with a delegation from...

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 20, 2015

Vatopaidi on Mt. Athos

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in...

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015

Related:

A little about Athonite obediences. Check it out!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015

I Think I've Posted a Link to This Article Before

First step: set up a prayer corner. The next step is even more important: actually using the space regularly for prayer.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, April 20, 2015

Spring 2015 Issue of Sacred Music

NLM

I'm actually interested in this piece: "Twentieth-Century Reform and the Transition from a “Parallel” to a “Sequential” Liturgical Model: Implications for the Inherited Choral Repertoire and Future Liturgical Compositions" by Jared Ostermann

But this should be good: "Contributions of Pope Benedict XVI to the Continuing Liturgical Reforms" by Edward Schaefer

Then there's "A Charter for the New Liturgical Movement" by Peter Kwasniewski

What's Going on at the POI?

Chiesa: Earthquake among the Jesuits, at the Pontifical Oriental Institute

In Defense of Historical Truth

A First for Francis. With the Ottoman Enemy by Sandro Magister

In two years as pope, he had never been attacked so harshly as he is now by Turkey, for his denunciation of the Armenian genocide. A turning point in the pontificate

Debate

I remember trying out for the debate society one year and how I didn't like the exercise of finding the arguments necessary to win, rather than practicing arguments for the sake of the truth. The problem was that I looked at it as an exercise of dialectic, rather than that of rhetoric. Unfortunately, the debate society would not have been a good way of learning classical rhetoric, either...

"The Augustinian Roots of Thomistic Deification"

Christendom College: Author Fr. David Meconi to Deliver Annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture - itunes

I did not know he had taken over editing of HPR from Fr. Baker. Something he wrote for Christmas: Why God Becomes Human