Friday, March 31, 2017

Akhathist to the Virgin mary

Cardinal Sarah's Address to the Colloquium “The Source of the Future”

CWR: Cardinal Sarah's Address on 10th Anniversary of "Summorum Pontificum"

The exclusive English translation of the message sent by the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the Colloquium “The Source of the Future”

The Canon of St. Andrew

Thursday, March 30, 2017

"Anniversaries"

Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: Shedding light on today's crisis

Word on Fire

CWR: “Always forward”: Inside the work of the Word on Fire apostolate by Paul Senz

Word on Fire, says Fr. Steve Grunow, CEO of the apostolate, is "a concretization of Vatican II’s vision of a complementary and cooperative rapport between clergy and laity..."

"Do Not Turn Away Your Face"

The Book of Proverbs

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

For the Aspiring Essayists

The Creative Catholic: Fr. James V. Schall S.J. on the art and vocation of writing by K. V. Turley
"One does not read books about how to write. One writes books that hopefully someone will read. Well read books are not well read for nothing. Read them."

Literature, History, and Liturgy

The Litany of...

Beginning to Pray: Louis Bouyer and the Gift of Good Teachers

I hope Fr. Giles Dimock, O.P. will publish his talk or make it available online somewhere...

The Psalms

Will This Be Adequate?

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Deo Gratias!

Serves the bishop of San Antonio right...

Our Lady of Atonement Becoming One with the Ordinariate in the US

Interview with Amandine Wanert,

Monday, March 20, 2017

A Welcome Piece from Fr. Schall

CWR Dispatch: On the First Day of Spring by James V. Schall, S.J.
Noticing is one of the most important things about us. Or to put it negatively, our lives are filled with myriads of things we never paid attention to. We couldn’t mark all of them.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Something for the Feast of St. Patrick

When It Suits Them

A Progressive will be as ultramontane as a conservative...

Fr. Hunwicke: Apostasy??

Sacra Liturgia Conference 2017

CWR: Sacra Liturgia Conference in Milan to feature Cardinals Sarah, Burke; focus on Ambrosian liturgy
Interest in the international conferences, says organizer Dom Alcuin Reid, continues to grow, especially "amongst young people, men and women, and amongst young clergy and religious."

Roman Legalism

Fr. Hunwicke: Christine Mohrmann (4)

The ancient Romans were very legalistically minded. When they prayed to the Gods, they did their best to ensure that they covered everything; that they addressed the Gods by the right titles (and all of them) so that they could be assured that they were heard; that they asked for everything that they required so that an accidental omission would not frustrate their petitions. Christine Mohrmann showed that there is more than a little of this attitude in the prayers which comprise the Roman Rite of the ancient Latin Church.

Cardinal Burke in Oakland

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Gratitude as the Fruit of Repentence

Discerning the Historical Causes for the Fall of a Polity

I recall having read in certain Latin apologetic works on Church History that attributed the success of the Muslim invasions of the Christian world to the moral laxity and softness of Christians and their heresy (the Nestorians and Monophysites!). This may strike one as being an expression of Latin triumphalism, given the weakness of the Latin churches today

What if it is the case that the invasions were successful because the Christian polities were simply too weak? Must we find some moral blame for this? Or what if the polities failed because they were not Christianized enough -- not with respect to the "private" lives of individuals or expressions of orthodoxy, but because the polities lacked the excellence proper to it?

While those who lived with empire may have seen it as the only way to deal with external threats, what if they were wrong? Could it be said that the Byzantine theme system was close to being an expression of republicanism? Or were they effective purely for military reasons? What if despite the expression of public orthodoxy, the imperial government was not the form desired by God?

Would God save those who refuse to do what is necessary to save themselves? Lepanto, other victories have been interpreted as God intervening (especially through the intercession of the Mother of God). Still, Christians usually had to do their part in securing victory over the Muslims. While God's primary causality is not to be denied, and miracles are possible, what if God prefers Christian polities to participate in the Divine, in their own way, but attaining the excellence proper to them? Could God miraculously have intervened in preventing the Holy Land from being conquered by the Muslims? Did He withhold this help because of the private sins of the Christians living there, or as a consequence of other failures? Or did He have other reasons for allowing this to happen?

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Not a Surprise

Dr. Mike Augros going back to New England -- President McLean Names First Members to Team for New England Campus

One Against Changing the Discipline

CWR Dispatch: The Amazon Indult? by Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas
For the sake of argument, let’s say that an indult were granted to the beleaguered bishops of the Amazon, can one suppose that it will end there? History teaches otherwise.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Not In This Pontificate

Perhaps never.

First Things: Return to Form by Martin Mosebach
A Call for the Restoration of the Roman Rite

It is a moral outrage that those who gutted the Roman Rite because of their presumption and delusion were permitted to rob a future generation of their full Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

Not the One to Try to Implement This Change

Crux: Pope Francis Signals Openness to Ordaining Married Men

The Triumph of Orthodoxy

Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Crisis: While Only God is Good, Everyone Can Be Perfect by Fr. George W. Rutler

Psalm 143 - Hear My Prayer O Lord

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CWR Dispatch: Catholic Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Paul Senz
His Catholic faith was the guiding influence throughout the life of possibly the greatest composer in the history of music.

Voice and Machine