Angry Words By Tom Bartlett
Will one researcher's discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics?

The Dominicans have redesigned the look for their website. (And, another link to that missa cantata video.)

The Atlantic: Cheeky Complaints Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts

James Chastek, Right and violence

He quotes the CE (the new one?): "Every perfect right, i.e. every right involving in others an obligation in justice a deference thereto, to be efficacious, and consequently a real and not an illusory power, carries with it at the last appeal the subsidiary right of coercion. A perfect right, then, implies the right of physical force…"

What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology

Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II

Exaltation of youth and technological progress

Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law

What is the author's ultimate point of view on Church teaching on marriage? I hesitate to read what she writes.

New from Eighth Day Books

Orthodoxy: The Cosmos Transfigured by Paul Evdokimov

Sancte Pater Benedicte

Sandro Magister: Vatican Diary / Priests against celibacy. Austria's rerun
Vatican Diary / Resignation of the pope. Theory and practice

Ignorance Is Bliss by Jace Yarbrough

Edward Feser, Natural law and the right to private property

Archdiocese School of Byzantine Music - Arise O Lord

The Archdiocese School of Byzantine Music of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America presents Arise O Lord, from the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. Sunday, May 8, 2011.

Princeton Theological Seminary: Theological Commons

The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation

Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science

Discantus - Laetare Jerusalem

More from OUP

The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment by
Kurt T. Lash

Justice: A Reader by Michael J. Sandel

C. Vann Woodward

Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters by Jon Hall

New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Andrew L Sihler

When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin by John Gruber-Miller

Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises
From Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period
Eleanor Dickey

From Gibbon to Auden
Essays on the Classical Tradition
G.W. Bowersock

Character Strengths and Virtues
A Handbook and Classification
Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman

Psychology? Or ethics?
VIA Character: Welcome to the VIA Institute on Character
VIA Manual Intro
wiki

Byzantine chant - Απεστάλη εξ ουρανού


Byzantine chant - Μη αποστρέψης

James Chastek, Student objections to the Nicomachean Ethics

Sanctorum Exultatio

Old Roman Chant - Terra Tremuit

“Put on the Garments of Christ”: Cyril of Jerusalem and the Origins of Lent
by Carl Sommer (via Insight Scoop)

Hearing the Voice of God in Quietness by Archpriest Alexander Men (+1990)

Celebrating Fr. Buckley's Golden Jubilee: 50 Years in the Priesthood

Rod Dreher, St. Benedict on Mt. Athos (which contains a link to this 2009 post at Logismoi)

Sandro Magister, Gregory the Great Speaks English
The encounter in Rome between Benedict XVI and the primate of the Anglicans has taken place under the banner of the great pope who evangelized Britannia. With Ratzinger and Williams, ecumenism is abandoning tactics and getting to the substance

Christopher Malloy, A sinner free from a key dimension of concupiscence?

Who said the spirit of Latinization was dead?

Rorate Caeli: Are the traditional Eastern liturgies an obstacle to the "New Evangelization"?

When members of ecclesial movements that were formed within the Roman rite enter the East, do they bring a Vatican II chauvinism with them? Do they appeal to the Holy Spirit to claim that their brand of spirituality is superior to what has been sustaining those who have been living under oppression for so long?

Holy Cross Faculty Members Address Students at Kodiak's St. Herman's Seminary

Elder Cleopa on the Eight Sources of Temptation
If You Want to Find out if Someone Loves Christ, Find out if He Loves Monasticism

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

TAC: “The Pope’s Theologian”
An Interview with Rev. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., Theologian of the Papal Household

Been wondering if I should buy some Bertrand de Jouvenel. Liberty Fund publishes some of his books, and ISI has an introductory guide.

Bertrand de Jouvenel’s melancholy liberalism by BRIAN C. ANDERSON

CNA: Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments by David Kerr

The beginning of the change in order in which sacraments are received by Roman-rite Catholics?

Dr. Fleming's latest: Afghan Justice:

Here in the enlightened West, we know that the purpose of a criminal justice system is two-fold: to rehabilitate the criminal and protect the public. It was not always so. The ancients believed that a criminal act--murder, assault, robbery, rape--put the universe out of joint. The purpose of punishment was to put it right again. Killers are killed, robbers robbed, beaters beaten.

It was not always so simple as "an eye for an eye," and Roman and Christian law made allowances for motives, circumstances, and appropriateness of punishment, but they never forgot the primary purpose of punishment was retribution or, to use a simpler word, vengeance.

Leftist Christians will howl in protest, citing, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," little understanding that the same Lord, according to St. Paul, delegates the power to punish evil to the rulers of the world. Not in vain, Paul declared in an authoritative chapter of Romans, does the ruler hold the sword, nor is it a terror to the good but only to the wicked. It follows that a ruler who casts away the sword on a humanitarian whim is no longer a legitimate ruler. The Church always begged for mercy in specific cases, but never disputed the right and duty of kings and parliaments to execute criminals.

Even Imanuel Kant, who got most things wrong, saw through the lies of all the liberal theories of punishment:

"Judicial punishment can never be used solely as a means to promote some other good for the criminal himself or for society, but instead must in all cases be imposed on a person solely on the ground that he has committed a crime....woe to him who rummages around in the winding paths of a theory of happiness looking for some advantage to be gained by releasing the criminal from punishment or by reducing the amount of it....Even if civil society were to dissolve itself by common agreement of all its members...the last murderer remaining in prison must be executed, so that everyone will duly receive what his actions are worth and so that the bloodguilt thereof will not be fixed on the people because they failed to insist on carrying out the punishment; for if they fail to do so, they may be regarded as accomplices in this public violation of legal justice.”

Chiara Luce Badano Movie Trailer


From 2010: Chiara Luce Badano to be Beatified Just 19 Years After Her Death
Beatification of Chiara Luce
Chiara Luce - The Wave
Focolare

Rob Vischer reviews Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality by Richard Thompson Ford (via Mirror of Justice)

Thomistica.net: The Salmanticenses Enter the Digital Age

Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, and Singular Number

Heroes Not Zombies: The Science Delusion. Rupert Sheldrake

Ancient Faith Radio podcasts

Doctrine Matters - Part 1 (mp3)
Fr. Andrew points out there are 3 disciplines of Orthodoxy - Doctrine, Piety, and Morality. However he is concerned that the first - Doctrine - occupies a back seat in many Orthodox circles.


St. Ephraim's Prayer

Thomistica.net: New Document from the International Theological Commission

The document: “Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles, and Criteria” (also at Zenit)

Via Insight Scoop: Tough Questions, Timeless Moral Truths
An interview with Fr. Brian Mullady about same-sex marriage, contraception, the death penalty, and other pressing moral issues

NLM: Book Notice: The Voice of the Church at Prayer, Fr. Uwe Michael Lang

Carthage: The Lost Mediterranean Civilisation

The Foundations of Our Orthodox Faith: A Discourse on the Sunday of Orthodoxy by Archimandrite John Krestiankin

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the Russian Revolution was prepared abroad

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

Recently I came across a link to an article against x because it was counter to human dignity, but I can't remember the author or the website. It may have been illustrative of the liberal turn in Catholic moral theology.

Rorate Caeli: Great Thinkers of the Order of Friars Preachers

James Chastek, The Kettlewell Principle and Deductions from nature being caused by hae hou heneka

A conversation on Ted: Will we ever truly be able to model nature?

Fr. Z with a statement by Joseph Ratzinger in 1969: “The Church will become small and will have to start afresh …”

Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

Tonight at the DSPT

The 22nd Annual Aquinas Lecture
Albert the Great and the New Aristotelianism: A Turning Point in the Western Intellectual Tradition by Dr. Michael Tkacz

The lecture will probably be recorded and then uploaded to the DSPT website.

Response to Michael Tkacz's Critique of ID

Robert Louis Wilken, Tutoring the Affections: Liturgy and Christian Formation in the Early Church

"My Brother the Pope"

(via Catholic Fire)

Mary Victrix: Traditionalism and Liturgy

By traditionalism, then, I mean that ideology by which Catholics, in the name of conserving Tradition, take it upon themselves to determine what magisterial act does and does not belong to Catholic Tradition.

Can theologians do this? And can the laity make judgments as to what is Catholic doctrine and what is not?

Metropolitan Hilarion: Power that is not based on love will never bring good fruits

Peter King, The Failure of Ockham’s Nominalism

Rorate Caeli: Great Canon of Saint Andrew

Speaking with and about God - In March, the Dominican church of St. Vincent Ferrer will present its annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas, OP. (March 6, 2012)

Susan Cain: The power of introverts

Landscapes of Nothingness by William Carroll

DSPT Fellow - Barbara Elliott's Presentation on Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture

Via The Imaginative Conservative:

DSPT Fellow - Barbara Elliott's Presentation on Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture from DSPT on Vimeo.

Imagine That by Tony M. (on Anthony Esolen's Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child)

Matthew Levering reviews The Last Superstition

Sandro Magister, "Concilium" Criticizes the Pope: He's with the Capitalists

Why I Love Religion, And Love Jesus || Spoken Word

Byzantine, TX: Met. Hilarion discusses state of Orthodox Church in China

Some DHS videos

Fr. Pritzl. RIP.

I think this is the movie about which DN informed me a while back: Fetih 1453 (wiki). It was just released this month?

official website

Apparently a movie glorifying the Ottoman conquest of the imperial city.

An Orthodox alternative?
From 2010: The text of the film “The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium”
A Byzantine Warning.
On the new documentary film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium

An Interview with Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov on “The Fall of an Empire: The Lesson of Byzantium”

From 2010: New mosaic of St David in Westminster Cathedral.

Medievalists.net: Stones of Medieval Italy

An Explanation of the The Litany of Humility: Three Aspects of Humility

Mirror of Justice: Hittinger on Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics - Scholasticism and Political Freedom (mp3).

The Angelus:Vatican II at 50: History of the Preparatory Schemas

James Chastek's appraisal of Aristotle's natural science: Note on Aristotle’s Physics

How can metaphysics then be a science rather than tentative opinion?

But in turning to the Physics in search of such truths, all one finds is a series of conclusions that are either false or of no value, and by “of no value” I mean the term as Aristotle himself used it: “definitions which do not enable us to discover the derived properties, or which fail to facilitate even a conjecture about them, must obviously be… futile (De anima, I:1)” If the value of definitions is from the power they give us to derive new properties and facilitate conjecture, then we must admit the truth of any number of things that nullify the supposed truth of common experience. For example, it is more valuable to identify rest and motion (as happens in inertia) or magnitude and time (as happens in Relativity). Again, we should affirm that things with no parts can move (Like electrons. The premise is not inconsequential – it grounds Aristotle’s proof for the existence of God) and we should deny that anything in motion needs a subject of notion (a light wave is not some thing waving – like aether) and that, as a consequence to this, magnitude is not the foundation of physical things, that is, a sort of substrate that supports all activity.

I wouldn't be so quick to jettison Aristotelian physics in favor of the reasonings of contemporary physicists, but it deserves a longer and better defense than I can give at the moment.

Simon Oliver - Radical Orthodoxy

Simon Oliver (2009). Radical Orthodoxy : From Participation to Later Modernity

TEDxMileHighSalon - Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics

The Secular Character of the Laity and the DSPT College of Fellows by Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP

A couple of other links:
Black or white - on the Augustinian cappa
Ancient Heresies and Their Modern Forms

Rome Reports: Process of beatification begins for Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation

Measuring happiness?

TEDxObserver - Geoff Mulgan

James Chastek, A nexus of Aristotle and Plato’s disagreement

James Chastek, God as activity without someone (like God) acting

Giving Up Something” for Lent - Ancient Faith Radio (via Byzantine, Texas)

My 2012 Oscar Pick - The TREE OF LIFE - and why it won't win

Zenit: Doctor Who Found Cause of Down Syndrome Moves Closer to Canonization
Diocesan Phase Closes for Jérôme Lejeune

Br. Philiip Neri Reese, Character, Casuistry and Catharsis

Bishop Seraphim (Sigrist): Orthodoxy is Just Christianity

Why Study Latin and Greek? (via Insight Sccop)

The Pope's homily at Santa Sabina on Ash Wednesday.

In his talk earlier this month at the DSPT, Fr. Sherwin discussed the impact of emotional development on moral development, using the work of Lewis, Amini and Lannon in A General Theory of Love. He also talked about John Senior, and the sort of [emotional] preparation that a solid Christian spiritual life requires. There was some disagreement between him and Dennis de Rougemont on the origin of romantic love, as Fr. Sherwin cited Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde as a counter.

What new insights would Conrad Baars have into our affective life if he were alive today?

The current model of catechesis (CCD class) doesn't seem to be effective. We need something like Dr. Senior's integrated humanities program. (Of course the discussion got me thinking about the topic of poetic knowledge, as well.)

William Byrd - Emendemus in melius

William Byrd - Emendemus in melius. Deller

Insight Scoop: Saints are not sad - short biographies of joyful saints by Frank Sheed

Rome Reports: Pope explains the significance of Lent and Ash Wednesday

Zenit: On Peter's Mission
"To Feed the Flock of Christ, Keeping It United in Faith and Charity
Pope's Homily Sunday With New Cardinals
"The Petrine Ministry Is Therefore a Primacy of Love in the Eucharistic Sense"

Ash Wednesday and Lent in Two Minutes

OP Vocations: The Place of Study in the Ideal of St. Dominic
The Place of Study in the Ideal of St. Dominic
(PDF version)
by Rev. James A. Weisheipl OP

Rorate Caeli: In defense of Mons. Brunero Gherardini - Part 2

Questions on analogy

Steven Long, Thoughts on "A Long Way to Go," a response to Christopher Malloy's "A Long Way to Go."

His book: Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith