Another Western Definition of Worship

Stumbled across this definition of worship twice recently. Am told it’s quite well known? Very similar ground to @underhill_eve here who writes often on self-oblivion, the whole of our existence being offered, the soul of religion being adoration pic.twitter.com/QVByHupx1p

— Andy Coates (@Andy_Coates) December 30, 2022

"Supreme Legislator"

Pope Francis issued a document on Friday that changed the oversight of Opus Dei. It also decreed that its leader, the prelate, can no longer be a bishop. https://t.co/LoHXuMDSJO

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 22, 2022

Hermeneutic of... ?

This view of Catholic Moral Theology is wrong in almost every respect. He misunderstands the history of moral theology. Worst, he attempts to create a division between Amoris Laetitia and Veritatis Splendor that Pope Francis has rejected.https://t.co/APHOujrLeh

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) May 28, 2022

Fr. Michael Sherwin Lecture

Next in Our Virtue Series: St. Thomas' Guide to Happiness and the Moral Life:

Hope: The Virtue of Spiritual Desire Made Possible in Christ with Fr. Michael Sherwin, OPhttps://t.co/wx20HF5BLf pic.twitter.com/up9xV7NR32

— Angelicum Thomistic Institute (@TAngelicum) February 10, 2022

Means-End Problem

Good thread. https://t.co/bEuivgKr27

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) December 6, 2021

One can legislate what is in accordance with the Natural Law and thus in consonance with the ultimate end, but that formality or ratio of the means cannot be legislated.

Reacting Against the Pope's Reaction Against "Legalism"

"If you love Me, keep My commandments."
Love and precepts go together. God knew we need instructions on how to be happy here on earth and be a good neighbor, unto eternal life. https://t.co/TTn1Tn67RQ

— Dr. Maike Hickson (@HicksonMaike) October 20, 2021

Projecting unto St. Joseph

Whet your political-theological appetite: Joseph is traditionally opposed to Herod, as the Just Man is opposed to the Tyrant; Joseph reveals fatherhood as a fundamental political and spiritual form, passing on the line of David beyond biological descent.

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) June 16, 2021

What do we know of the virtues or example of St. Joseph? Nothing. We can know something about the virtues of Christ by participating in Him; what knowledge can we have of St. Joseph, about whom (and the Theotokos as well) so little was written, even if one considers the apocrypha. One can only project what thinks are the virtues of a man and of a woman unto them, and what if one's understanding of masculine and feminine excellences are incorrect? It becomes a form of creating a false authority to justify one's assumptions - a form of circular reasoning.

Cardinal Müller Gives the Traditional Christian Teaching on Sex

Any freely chosen sexual activity outside of marriage is a grave violation of God’s holy will. https://t.co/Mv23D0KWnB

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) May 25, 2021

Thibaud Collin on the JPII Institute

Sandro Magister: “Humanae Vitae” Farewell. Here Comes the One Who Will Celebrate Its Funeral

CWR Dispatch: Professor: With new president, JPII Institute should be renamed ‘Amoris Laetitia Institute’

Excommunication Is a Solution They'd Never Consider

CWR Dispatch: German Catholic bishops call for change to Catechism on homosexuality

Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz has suggested that Catholics with homosexual inclinations cannot all be expected to live chastely and the Church should adopt a pastoral approach that acknowledges this.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

My discussion with Dr. @PaulaBoddington, Moral Philosopher and expert on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. https://t.co/3DFFwkyBKs

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) February 19, 2021

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. on the Human Good

Fr. White's recent lecture for the Thomistic Institute at UT Austin titled "Aquinas on the Final Purpose of Human Existence and Human Prudence" is now available on our podcast.

Spotify—https://t.co/Xk7AuDGPvM

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) February 13, 2021

Solidarity

Solidarity
Volume 1 | Issue 2
Social Justice Quarterly

Check it out!https://t.co/B6B4OHVqs5 pic.twitter.com/2TcAmauf1V

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) January 28, 2021

Can't recommend this issue; the essays are naive explanations of solidarity that do not critically examine the assumption of the state and community.

Syllabus on Roman Catholic Social Teaching

Draft of a syllabus for a course on Catholic Social Teaching, structured around the social encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII. With texts giving background and/or development and interpretation for each. pic.twitter.com/CYIGtPSoju

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) January 26, 2021

Levi Russel on Usury

Episode #35 - Dr. Levi Russel of the @leoinstituteCST on Usuryhttps://t.co/vc8F2r63UI

— Tradistae (@tradistae) January 21, 2021

Who Heeds the Prohibition of Usury?

The tenderness for usurers is especially touching, but not especially coherent: the magisterial pronouncements against usury are no less in the Denzinger than "Humanae vitae."https://t.co/weYRLmbMZJ

— Pat Smith (@smithpatrick08) January 14, 2021

The Science of Moral Theology

Live with @PatrickTrad and @chesterbelloc3 on the topic of the science of moral theology
Moral Theology with Ryan Grant and RtT https://t.co/Oma9wKZhEN via @YouTube

— Anthony Stine (@pontificatormax) December 18, 2020

12 Principles of Latin International Thought

12 Principles of Catholic International Thought - OnePeterFive - https://t.co/AMQ2gX7zo9 via @onepeterfive pic.twitter.com/lyJI53g6yq

— OnePeterFive (@OnePeterFive) November 5, 2020

Andrew Latham on the 10 principles.

#4 regarding scale is a questionable claim regarding Aquinas, though probably true of neoscholastics who didn't know any better. #3 re: the end of a state is questionable as well.

Just One Man's Opinion

Not universally true, and maybe not even true for the limited cases to which it applies. Pulling Christian teaching from quotes of individual saints is not moral theology, and even what is taken to be the result of the sanctified, connatural wisdom of a saint must be tested against Tradition and a proper moral theology.

“The more contemptible is he who commands, the more pleasing to God is the humility of him who obeys.”

-Saint Francis of Assisi (as recorded by Saint Bonaventure, “De Legenda Sancti Francesci”, ch. 6)

— Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P. (@ThomasAquinasOP) October 30, 2020

The Next Issue of New Polity

It will be interesting to see D.C. Schindler's objections to integralism. His book against liberalism is quite good. https://t.co/Jy2jFeI8vb

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) October 27, 2020