Bruce Marshall on Understanding Scripture according to Joseph Ratzinger

The Church can give modern biblical scholarship all the credit it deserves yet rightly refuse it the final say in discerning what the Bible means. From the archives:https://t.co/l6GwA4cNd0

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) December 1, 2020

The Moral Meaning of the Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Lord Has Bound Us to One Another By the Thread of Holy Love | Homily on today's Gospel reading by Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. https://t.co/MQKvsTNa0I pic.twitter.com/8EmFmfqrpv

— Pravmir.com (@Pravmir_English) November 29, 2020

Pravmir

How is this different from what Pope Francis did in his last encylical letter? Metropolitan Hilarion probably acknowledges that the Christological meaning is primary, and the moral meaning is first determined by that. Also, Metropolitan Hilarion does not use the parable to lay out a simplistic moral theology regarding immigration, refugees, etc.

Excessive Deference to Papal Authority

When proof-texting from popes alone is sufficient?

“Reading Scripture with Benedict and Francis: An Adventure with Two Popes”

Today, Prof. Lewis Ayres (Durham University) will be speaking for the TI at the University of Edinburgh. This lecture will be on Zoom.

6:30 PM GMT (1:30 PM EST)

Register here: https://t.co/dDC7uYKxBT

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) November 10, 2020

Following Fratelli Tutti's Lead

And its interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Who is my neighbor?

On October 27 at 5:00 p.m., join IHE Executive Director @josephecapizzi and @LC_Institute Senior Fellow Russell Hittinger to discuss “Fratelli Tutti” on social friendship with IHE Fellow @jennfrey

To register: https://t.co/u5kJlMOzVp pic.twitter.com/LVxBr1Qngk

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) October 23, 2020

A Good Samaritan society emphasizes the vulnerability and incapacity of the poor.https://t.co/z6wBshC2CT

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) October 25, 2020

Again: A Questionable Use of a Parable for Moral and Political Theological Purposes

Perhaps there’s something other than American realpolitik considerations at the heart of #FratelliTutti.

Perspectives from @BMcCSJ, @KDaniels8, @Stephen_P_White, @MNCatholicConf, @gjpappin, @DrSamuelGregg, and @PiadeSolenni. https://t.co/5IzcR3zYDL

— Jonathan Liedl (@JLLiedl) October 13, 2020

How Should One Understand Parables?

As a revelation of a truth about the Mystery? Or should parables be reduced to a supposed "literal" moral or political meaning, which serve as the theological basis of a papal encyclical on "love" (or "charity")? I think the latest encyclical does bring into relief a difference between Latin (or Jesuits) exegesis of parables and the Christological (or properly mystical) exegesis that one finds in the East.

Pope Francis wants #FratelliTutti to move us to action — like the Good Samaritan, writes #Jesuit @BMcCSJ. https://t.co/AWSGDGi5D3

— Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) October 6, 2020