Sandro Magister: Homosexual Priests and Bishops. Neither "Healthy" Nor "Faithful"
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Are Acts of Canonizations by the Bishop of Rome Infallible?
One Latin traditionalist perspective --
Rorate Caeli: "The authority of canonisations": Do all canonisations need to be accepted as infallible? -- a special guest article The authority of canonisations by Dr. John R. T. Lamont
Rorate Caeli: "The authority of canonisations": Do all canonisations need to be accepted as infallible? -- a special guest article The authority of canonisations by Dr. John R. T. Lamont
Friday, August 24, 2018
May God Grant Him Many Years
Church Life: Observations on Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity on Its 50th Anniversary written by Cyril O’Regan
Labels:
Benedict XVI,
books,
Christianity,
Joseph Ratzinger,
Latin Christianity
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Catholic News Agency: Just the Facts?
Or the facts with an ideological slant?
Fr. James Martin critiques ‘homophobic’ pastors at WMOF
From this article can one know what the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is regarding homosexuality and homosexual behavior?
Fr. James Martin critiques ‘homophobic’ pastors at WMOF
From this article can one know what the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is regarding homosexuality and homosexual behavior?
Should This Be Called [Roman] Catholic Integralism?
In Defence of Catholic Integralism by Thomas Pink
Is it necessarily bound up with acceptance of the modern nation-state?
Is it necessarily bound up with acceptance of the modern nation-state?
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
One "Reunion" Council and Two...
ecumenical councils? What did the decrees of Florence really say about the papacy? Something for me to look up, presumably in Denzinger.
From a comment:
From a comment:
I would advise those who have difficulty with Pope Francis’s teaching on the death penalty to follow the guidance of the CDF given in Donum Veritatis, 27-31. Some of Dr. Peters’ comments about the ordinary papal magisterium need clarification because they could be interpreted as challenging the universal ordinary teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff, which is affirmed by three ecumenical councils: Florence (D-H, 1307); Vatican I (D-H, 3064), and Vatican II (Lumen Gentium, 22 and 25).
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Who Is Protecting James Martin, SJ?
CWR Dispatch: Whither the Church on “sensitivity” to homosexuals? by Thomas R. Ascik
To what degree does the campaign of American Jesuit Fr. James Martin become the agenda for parishes in the Catholic Church throughout the world?
To what degree does the campaign of American Jesuit Fr. James Martin become the agenda for parishes in the Catholic Church throughout the world?
There's no Space in the Curriculum?
If Latins seminarians and graduate students aren't even going to learn Latin any more, they should at least learn Greek in its place.
Monday, August 20, 2018
The Absence of Leadership and Pastoring
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a bureaucrat to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
First Among Equals? Or the Final Arbiter?
One more thing from Ed Peters's essay on the change in the CCC:
If infallibility seems to be logically required for the Pope to arbitrate two disputing claims regarding dogma (and even that may be more of a practical, linguistic preference rather than a question about the reality being signified), or for the pope with a council to teach definitively (if infallibility is necessarily guaranteed only with respect to the act of teaching, and not also with the act of reception by the Christian faithful), then does it entail that the pope is infallible when he speaks alone, even if he has supposedly "consulted" the bishops of the world? If the Pope has no divinely sanctioned role as a "universal" teacher, and his role with respect to the Church Universal is limited to his cooperative role with respect to other bishops, speaking collectively as a body, then how can it be claimed that his "extraordinary" acts as a "universal" teacher (even if "taught" by Vatican I) are infallible? Where is the justification in the historical exercise of the office of the bishop of Rome in the first millenium for this?
But that’s where confusion sets in: while popes can, in a singleextraordinary act, assert something with infallible certitude sufficient to bind the faithful in belief or morals (Canon 749 § 1), no pope can, by a single ordinary act, assert something with anything like the equivalent force for Christian consciences.
If infallibility seems to be logically required for the Pope to arbitrate two disputing claims regarding dogma (and even that may be more of a practical, linguistic preference rather than a question about the reality being signified), or for the pope with a council to teach definitively (if infallibility is necessarily guaranteed only with respect to the act of teaching, and not also with the act of reception by the Christian faithful), then does it entail that the pope is infallible when he speaks alone, even if he has supposedly "consulted" the bishops of the world? If the Pope has no divinely sanctioned role as a "universal" teacher, and his role with respect to the Church Universal is limited to his cooperative role with respect to other bishops, speaking collectively as a body, then how can it be claimed that his "extraordinary" acts as a "universal" teacher (even if "taught" by Vatican I) are infallible? Where is the justification in the historical exercise of the office of the bishop of Rome in the first millenium for this?
Labels:
canon law,
Ed Peters,
infallibility,
papacy,
Patriarchate of Rome,
Vatican I
Sunday, August 19, 2018
What if?
Could the split of the Protestants have been prevented if the Latins had first reconciled with the Eastern Chalcedonian Christians ealier, and instead of elevating scholastic theological opinion as dogma at Trent, written the decrees differently?
Then we wouldn't have a problem about bishops endorsing practically unconditional intercommunion with Protestants.
The Intercommunion Proposal of the German Bishops is Unbiblical by Brian Kranick
Then we wouldn't have a problem about bishops endorsing practically unconditional intercommunion with Protestants.
The Intercommunion Proposal of the German Bishops is Unbiblical by Brian Kranick
Why Pope Paul VI Should Not Be Canonized
Paul VI on liturgical reform Editor
Pope Paul VI In view of the canonization of Pope Paul VI, the pope of liturgical reform, in October, Pray Tell is occasionally publishing some of his most significant statements on liturgical reform. This helps us understand the Church’s understanding of liturgy, and also reflect on how far we have to go in implementing the teaching more fully!
Pope Paul VI In view of the canonization of Pope Paul VI, the pope of liturgical reform, in October, Pray Tell is occasionally publishing some of his most significant statements on liturgical reform. This helps us understand the Church’s understanding of liturgy, and also reflect on how far we have to go in implementing the teaching more fully!
Labels:
Patriarchate of Rome,
Paul VI
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