Saturday, August 31, 2019
Eastern Christian Books: Khomiakov and the Mystery of Sobornost
Eastern Christian Books: Khomiakov and the Mystery of Sobornost
Friday, August 30, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Christopher Altieri Calls out Archbishop Viganò, Again
CWR: “Team Viganò” versus “Team Francis” one year on by Christopher R. Altieri
We are seeing the worst ecclesiastical leadership crisis in at least five hundred years play out as a popularity contest.
Meanwhile...
Will Rome finally intervene in the troubled Diocese of Buffalo?
Pressure mounts on Buffalo bishop after two seminarians resign over scandal
From the latter: "Malone is widely considered to be a test case for Vos Estis Lux Mundi, the Vatican’s newly enacted norms for bishop accountability, and Buffalo is now viewed by many Church observers as the new epicenter for the U.S. Church’s abuse crisis."
We are seeing the worst ecclesiastical leadership crisis in at least five hundred years play out as a popularity contest.
Meanwhile...
Will Rome finally intervene in the troubled Diocese of Buffalo?
Pressure mounts on Buffalo bishop after two seminarians resign over scandal
From the latter: "Malone is widely considered to be a test case for Vos Estis Lux Mundi, the Vatican’s newly enacted norms for bishop accountability, and Buffalo is now viewed by many Church observers as the new epicenter for the U.S. Church’s abuse crisis."
27th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality
Monastero di Bose: 27th International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality
CALLED TO LIFE IN CHRIST
In the Church, in the world, in the present time
September 4-6, 2019
(via Panorthodox Synod)
CALLED TO LIFE IN CHRIST
In the Church, in the world, in the present time
September 4-6, 2019
(via Panorthodox Synod)
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Fr. Thomas Loya on the Married Priesthood
CWR: Married priesthood, celibacy, and the Amazon Synod: An Eastern Catholic priest’s perspective
The tradition of the Eastern Churches reminds us that the mutually exclusive dichotomy is not between marriage and priesthood but between marriage and monasticism.
One of the combox commentators recommended the work of Fr. Laurent Touze. From what is available on the internet, it would seem that Laurent Touze's L’avenir du celibat sacerdotal is more a work of theology than of history, relying instead on Stickler, Cochini and Heid, both of which are disputed by non-Latin historians. Does the author recognize that it was not always the case that bishops were celibate and unmarried, despite the preference of most Apostolic Churches now for such episcopal candidates? One article records his claim that that married priests in "Oriental rites" (not the Oriental Churches as they should be recognized) would eventually disappear [sic] as people slowly return to the "Tradition" of the "Church." Such a Latin chauvinism should not be unsurprising from an Opus Dei priest-academic.
The old Latin canard regarding Trullo/Quinisext has mentioned in the combox as well by those who are ignorant of the fact that the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church (as well as the Maronites) were not present at Trullo but nonetheless maintain the option of a married presbyters as being part of their received tradition, a fact Anthony Dragani points out in his review of Stickler.
Regardless of the theology to justify the current Latin discipline, Rome recognizes that the discipline is not a divinely-given precept but one that is ecclesial. As such, its non-observance by those priests who are not obligated to follow it is not a sin, nor is the belief that the discipline is mutable heretical. Latin theologians may justify their preference for the discipline through theological arguments, but theological arguments do not create a new divinely-revealed precept, and the judgment based on such arguments that the current discipline is better for the Church, that is the patriarchate of Rome, does not fall under any hitherto accepted Latin notion of infallibility. At worse such theologians, when denigrating the legitimate discipline of other Apostolic Churches in favor of their own ecclesial tradition, give the appearance of being like those whom our Lord criticized as elevating the customs of men over the Divine Law.
Related:
It is claimed that Roman Cholij has not renounced his work/historical scholarship on the question of the observance of clerical continence but he does accept the Byzantine discipline. Has the historical data been made definitively clear regarding the discipline?
The Council in TruIlo: Monogamy and the Ordained Priesthood - what does the author think of the recent decision by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, then?
Mandated Celibacy Among US Eastern Catholic Priests Theme of Seminar in Rome
I see the St. Paul Center has a new apologetic for the Latin discipline: Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest by Fr. Carter Griffin
The tradition of the Eastern Churches reminds us that the mutually exclusive dichotomy is not between marriage and priesthood but between marriage and monasticism.
One of the combox commentators recommended the work of Fr. Laurent Touze. From what is available on the internet, it would seem that Laurent Touze's L’avenir du celibat sacerdotal is more a work of theology than of history, relying instead on Stickler, Cochini and Heid, both of which are disputed by non-Latin historians. Does the author recognize that it was not always the case that bishops were celibate and unmarried, despite the preference of most Apostolic Churches now for such episcopal candidates? One article records his claim that that married priests in "Oriental rites" (not the Oriental Churches as they should be recognized) would eventually disappear [sic] as people slowly return to the "Tradition" of the "Church." Such a Latin chauvinism should not be unsurprising from an Opus Dei priest-academic.
The old Latin canard regarding Trullo/Quinisext has mentioned in the combox as well by those who are ignorant of the fact that the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church (as well as the Maronites) were not present at Trullo but nonetheless maintain the option of a married presbyters as being part of their received tradition, a fact Anthony Dragani points out in his review of Stickler.
Regardless of the theology to justify the current Latin discipline, Rome recognizes that the discipline is not a divinely-given precept but one that is ecclesial. As such, its non-observance by those priests who are not obligated to follow it is not a sin, nor is the belief that the discipline is mutable heretical. Latin theologians may justify their preference for the discipline through theological arguments, but theological arguments do not create a new divinely-revealed precept, and the judgment based on such arguments that the current discipline is better for the Church, that is the patriarchate of Rome, does not fall under any hitherto accepted Latin notion of infallibility. At worse such theologians, when denigrating the legitimate discipline of other Apostolic Churches in favor of their own ecclesial tradition, give the appearance of being like those whom our Lord criticized as elevating the customs of men over the Divine Law.
Related:
It is claimed that Roman Cholij has not renounced his work/historical scholarship on the question of the observance of clerical continence but he does accept the Byzantine discipline. Has the historical data been made definitively clear regarding the discipline?
The Council in TruIlo: Monogamy and the Ordained Priesthood - what does the author think of the recent decision by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, then?
Mandated Celibacy Among US Eastern Catholic Priests Theme of Seminar in Rome
I see the St. Paul Center has a new apologetic for the Latin discipline: Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest by Fr. Carter Griffin
Friday, August 23, 2019
What Would Fr. Sosa Say in Response?
They are engaged in a bit of make-believer? Or that their truth is subjectively true?
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
What Language for the Liturgy?
America: The liturgy was made for all people and languages, not just Latin. by Joseph P. Amar
Should Latin be retained at all, at least for those peoples who speak Romance languages? And even then, just for certain unchangeable parts of the Mass, like the Creed or the Our Father?
Are current translations of the Roman Missal sufficiently hieratic?
Should Latin be retained at all, at least for those peoples who speak Romance languages? And even then, just for certain unchangeable parts of the Mass, like the Creed or the Our Father?
Are current translations of the Roman Missal sufficiently hieratic?
Monday, August 19, 2019
Rachel Fulton Brown on Great Books
ABBC: What’s the point of reading “Great Books”? The lesson of the Middle Ages by Rachel Fulton Brown
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Adam DeVille's Response to the Pew Survey
CWR Dispatch: Belief in the Real Presence: Thoughts from the East by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
We must not forget that, for all its problems, the Christian East, which largely eschews talk of “transubstantiation” and similar Western terms, has never really experienced a major crisis of Eucharistic faith.
We must not forget that, for all its problems, the Christian East, which largely eschews talk of “transubstantiation” and similar Western terms, has never really experienced a major crisis of Eucharistic faith.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
More from Christopher R. Altieri on the JP2 Institute
CWR Dispatch: JPII Institute purge a case of Vatican types refusing to be honest, transparent by Christopher R. Altieri
What should have been a reasonably straightforward reorganization has become a protracted struggle. It didn’t have to be this way.
What should have been a reasonably straightforward reorganization has become a protracted struggle. It didn’t have to be this way.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
AL and the JP2 Institute
CWR: “Amoris laetitia” is at the center of the controversy over the John Paul II Theological Institute by Christopher R. Altieri
The architects and executors of the new Institute want the place to have a more sympathetic focus on the much-debated Apostolic Exhortation than they believe it has heretofore received from former faculty and administrators.
The architects and executors of the new Institute want the place to have a more sympathetic focus on the much-debated Apostolic Exhortation than they believe it has heretofore received from former faculty and administrators.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Christopher R. Altieri on the JPII Institute
CWR Dispatch: The “renewal” of the JPII Institute is a purge—and everyone knows it by Christopher R. Altieri
It’s tough to say whether the powers at the JPII Institute are trying too hard, or hardly trying.
It’s tough to say whether the powers at the JPII Institute are trying too hard, or hardly trying.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
An Interview with Stephen Bullivant
CWR: Why have Catholics in the UK and US been leaving the Church since Vatican II? by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Theologian and sociologist Stephen Bullivant says a big part of his argument in Mass Exodus is “that the ‘social architecture’ that had sustained and strengthened Catholic life and identity was well on the road to passing away by the time the Council came along.”
Theologian and sociologist Stephen Bullivant says a big part of his argument in Mass Exodus is “that the ‘social architecture’ that had sustained and strengthened Catholic life and identity was well on the road to passing away by the time the Council came along.”
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Friday, August 09, 2019
Thursday, August 08, 2019
Upholding the Monoepiscopate: One City, One Bishop
What powers does a bishop have that a presbyter doesn't, and why should the bishop have those powers instead of the presbyter? What about scale? (Or "subsidiarity"?) Does unity of Christians in a geographical area require the monoepiscopacy, or can it be achieved through synodality with a limited primacy for one?
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
The People of God
It goes on to recognize an ecclesiology that sees the sacrament of Baptism as the foundation of the vocation and ministry of every Christian, clergy and laity alike. Thus all the People of God together constitute a single community.
And what of chrismation? No one wants to touch that question - why not? Byzantines and others could easily become polemical with respect to Latin pastoral practice regrading confirmation.
the document
Tuesday, August 06, 2019
Monday, August 05, 2019
And What of the 20th Ce Liturgical Movement?
Did it have any influence on Bugnini and the others? Was the 20th ce liturgical movement "Protestantizing"?
Ah, But What of Reforms for the Local Church
To safeguard synodality between presbyters and the episkopos?