Interview with Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA

OCN airs interview with Metropolitan Tikhon - OCN (mp3)

Alleluia: Tota Pulchra Es, Maria (Immaculate Conception)

More at Stephan George's YT channel.

The Habit of the Dominican

Honorary Degree Ceremony for Metropolitan Hilarion

Benedict XVI on Rights

Zenit: Benedict XVI's Address to Plenary Assembly of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
"The Rights and Duties Do Not Have as their Sole and Exclusive Foundation the Social Conscience of Peoples, but Depend Primarily on the Natural Moral Law"

The ITC Document on Theology

Rome Reports: Pope welcomes document published by the International Theological Commission
http://www.romereports.com/palio/pope-welcomes-document-published-by-theinternational-theological-commission-english-8460.html#.UMJuhYNlWeA

THEOLOGY TODAY: PERSPECTIVES, PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA

Zenit: Pope Benedict's Address to the International Theological Commission
"Without Openness to the Transcendent [...], Mankind becomes Unable to Act in Accordance with Justice and Work for Peace" [2012-12-07]

Pope Benedict XVI: 'Christianity and Monotheism is of Vibrant Relevance'
Pontiff Addresses International Theological Commission

Rome Reports: Georg Gaenswein, named Prefect of the Papal Household and Archbishop

Fr. Z: Promoter of women “deacons” can’t speak in Archdiocese of Philadelphia

What if certain Orthodox Christians (and Eastern Catholics) began advocating the "restoration" of deaconesses? I think Fr. Z is too dismissive of the historical data, which needs to be addressed properly.

John Haldane interview

3:AM Magazine: aquinas amongst the analytics (via Edward Feser)

A lecture he gave for the Iona Institute - Love, sex and marriage in liberal societies.


Q&A

Insight Scoop: New: "Enchiridion Symbolorum" (a new edition of "Denzinger")

"The New Testament in Byzantium"

Dumbarton Oaks: 2013 Byzantine Studies Symposium, April 26-28, 2013, Symposiarchs: Robert S. Nelson, Yale University and Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

tentative program (pdf)
poster (pdf)

Patrick Brennan Responds to Jordan Ballor

The catholicity of subsidiarity

Edward Feser: Gonzaga lectures online

The 650th Anniversary of the Venerable English College

Rome Reports


Pope: audience with Venerable English College (full text)
Zenit

Archbishop Nichols' Homily at Venerable English College Anniversary Mass
"Today We are Very Conscious of Wanting to Deepen in our Church and in our Lives a New Spirit of Evangelization" [2012-12-03]

Gallery

Rome Reports: St. John Damascene, according to Benedict XVI

Does God Want Us to Be Happy? by Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko

How does he define happiness or happy? A definition is not offered at the beginning of the interview, but we do find a hint later:

Helen: So, the main confusion is that people look at their problems from a secular attitude, saying to themselves, “My life should be happy here on earth” rather than looking toward the life after this one. Is that so? 

Fr. Thomas: Yes. I would also say that not only do people look at life secularly – which I guess would mean with no relationship whatsoever to God – but I think it’s also true to say, especially nowadays, that many people look at the world in a falsely religious way. Not necessarily just secularly. People think that God exists to make our earthly life “happy,” to take away all suffering and pain, to do whatever we want Him to do, that all we have to do is “name it and claim it” and God will give it to us, no matter what it is — health, a good job, a good sex life or, for example, how the human genome project is described. I read it recently on the front page of the New York Times. The director of the project said: “Our purpose is very clear: it is to live a longer, happier, more pain-free, healthier human life before we inevitably die.” Well, many people think that’s a good program. Many religious people think that’s what God is trying to do, too — to make us live a longer, happier, healthier, better, and easier life…

The accumulation of various goods, but not the eudaimonia of Aristotle or Aquinas.

The full interview.

Related:
Something on those happiness studies. [Subjective] satisfaction vs. fulfillment based on objective meaning?

"Confession: The Path to Renewal of the Heart" ‒ A Lecture by Archimandrite Irinei (Steenberg) at the Joint Pastoral Conference in Nyack

This morning at a sale at a local Catholic bookstore, I looked through a copy of Married Priests? I don't think any new arguments are advanced regarding clerical celibacy as an ideal, and it relies on much work already done by Cochini and Heid and the like. It is unlikely, then, that this new book would successfully persuade Orthodox (and Eastern Catholics).

Related:
SACERDOTALIS CAELIBATUS
Priestly celibacy in patristics and in the history of the Church by Roman Cholij (who has since then repudiated his original position, iirc)

He has also written Theodore the Stoudite: The Ordering of Holiness.

From earlier this year: Rome to US Eastern Catholics: New Priests Should “Embrace Celibacy”

Biopic of Joseph Ratzinger to be Made

Vatican Insider: Ratzinger’s life becomes a film
An international production on the life and works of the Pope has been announced in Munich. The film is due out in 2014 and will be based on the written biography by Peter Seewald

Some Events at the DSPT Next Year

From the Events Calendar:

Natural Law - an Evening with Russell Hittinger, Jean Porter and Lloyd Weinreb
Thursday, January 31, 7 pm
Save the date to learn more about natural law from leading scholars: Russell Hittinger , William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa; Jean Porter , John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame; and Lloyd Weinreb , Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University. More details to come.

According to his brother, Dr.  Hittinger's book on Catholic social teaching (long-awaited by me) is finished and will be published soon. I haven't seen any information on it yet.
And the 2013 Aquinas Lecture:

The 23rd Annual Aquinas Lecture - Baptismal Theology and Practice in the Age of St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Augustine Thompson, OP
Wednesday, February 27, 7.30 pm
Fr. Augustine will examine new discoveries about the liturgical and social significance of baptism in the cities of thirteenth-century Italy and compare them with the development of the theology of baptism from the 12th century to Thomas Aquinas in the late 13th.

Metropolitan Tikhon Visits St. Vladimir's Seminary
Metropolitan Tikhon’s Inaugural Visit to Seminary Includes Guest Cardinal Dolan

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Related:
SVOTS Dean Lectures in Toronto, and Serves in London at Anniversary Liturgy

For the Feast of St. Andrew

For Bartholomew, the ecumenical journey is "irreversible"


Pope: Catholics and Orthodox, witnesses of the Gospel to the world that has lost faith in God

Contemporary Monasticism, God’s Will, and Everyday Life: A Conversation with Archimandrite Tikhon

Subsidiarity in the Tradition of Catholic Social Doctrine by Patrick Brennan (via MoJ)

By what definition of heresy?

The custodian of faith on the “heretical interpretations” of the Council

“There’s Plenty of Freedom, But Little Truth”: Solzhenitsyn Remembered by Archpriest Nikolai Chernyshev

TAC as an Example of Subsidiarity?

Fr. Joseph Illo, Subsidiarity

Vatican II: The History and the Narratives by Massimo Faggioli

Fr. Florovsky on St. John Chrysostom

Pravmir: St. John Chrysostom: The Prophet of Charity

More at Pravmir with Fr. Gabriel Bunge

Theological Study, the Spiritual Life, and Russia Today: A Conversation with Fr. Gabriel (Bunge)

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI homily for the ceremony to create six new cardinals

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas

Looks good.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested (OUP US)

Via the FB page for the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society

Vindictive Versus Rehabilitative

Vatican Insider: Pope: “Justice fails if prison fails to re-educate”

Should a punishment itself be meant to be rehabilitative? (In so far as it may be the occassion of repentence.) One must prepare the offender or criminal for reintegration into society, and supply the moral formation that he may not have received. But I would not consider this to be a part of the punishment itself, but a necessary supplement required by civic friendship and social justice.

Akathist of Thanksgiving

Dr. Glen Coughlin on Time

“Musings on Time”

New City Press

I was looking at the New City Press website since the company is the publisher of two books, one of which I mentioned on this blog. St. Augustine is prominent. There's another book from New City Press in which I am interested, but I can't remember the title - I think it is on economics. I'll have to look it up at the OLOP gift store. Anyway, I didn't know the company is associated with Focolare.

Orthodoxy by Paul Evdokimov

Focolare US
You Are Peter by Olivier Clément on sale now.

Rome Reports: Pope's book on the infancy of Jesus released

Eastern Christian Books: Bill Mills on Alexander Schemannn (via NLM)

Tracey Rowland on the Importance of Karol Wojtyla

Vatican II: A Hermeneutic of Continuity or Reform? by Tracey Rowland

One of the many areas which underwent a much-needed reform was that of the understanding of marriage and family life. This was in no small measure due to the interventions of the young Bishop Wojtyła from Cracow. He understood that the Church needed to develop a theology of marriage that went beyond the formulae of the scholastic marriage manuals that were widely used before the Second Vatican Council. He wanted to inject some of the insights from personalist philosophy into the Church’s teaching in this area. In other words, he wanted to draw into the Church’s theology of marriage ideas that are now presented to the world under the label of “Lublin Thomism.”

Did the vocation to the married life need to be clarified and explained for the laity? Perhaps, with the continuing onslaught by the modern state and the economic and political powers on Catholics and family life. Is theology of the body the best solution? I still have doubts. Love is the foundation of all Christian living, but in marriage one should not neglect the differences in function, psychology, or attraction that are rooted in sex differences, or overly-spiritualize conjugal love and married friendship. Perhaps the original theology of the body does not do that, but one also needs to take into account what else John Paul II said about relations between men and women and the role of women in society. Can the modern state be a proper starting point for an explication on the role of women? Or does a dialectical examination of the history of the modern state and social trends reveal that what we see cannot be purged of the influence of "liberalism" or "feminism" or some other error?

Alasdair MacIntyre's Presentation at the 13th Annual Fall Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

Alasdair MacIntyre "Catholic Instead of What?" Response by Sean Kelsey

Tracey Rowland on the New Latin Academy

The New Pontifical Academy for Latin by Tracey Rowland

Enthronement Liturgy of H.H. Pope Tawadros II

The Beatitudes (Pärt) — Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Who Supervises "Catholic" Universities?

The Upside-Down World of Catholic Higher Education by Anne Hendershott (via Insight Scoop)

The Principles of Theology

Dominicana: St. Thomas the Supernaturalist

Fr Peter Galadza on the Married Priesthood

Vatican Radio: Optional celibacy in the Eastern Catholic Church - mp3

More regarding the subject of this post.

Two videos for the Magnificat Day of Faith 2012

Ordo Praedicatorum

William Oddie Responds to Eamon Duffy

William Oddie: Eamon Duffy talks of ‘the Sovietisation of Catholic intellectual life’ and quotes Newman in defence of Tina Beattie: Newman would disagree

Related:
Another example of liberal panic
On Being a Catholic Academic
Prof. Tina Beattie’s US lectures cancelled because of her public dissent from Church’s moral teaching

Archbishop Di Noia on the New Evangelization

Athenaeum
Ordo Praedicatorum

Discussion Panel of the Third Volume of Joseph Ratzinger's Jesus of Nazareth

At the DSPT: Finally the Beginning: Reflections on the Final Volume of Pope Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth"

Wednesday, December 12, 7.30 pm

The momentous third and final volume in the Pope's international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, The Infancy Narratives , details the stories of Jesus' infancy and boyhood, and how they are relevant in the modern world. Our panel will engage and reflect on this final work as we prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.

The event is free and open to all.

PANELISTS:
Thomas Cattoi, PhD, Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley

Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, OP, Assistant Professor of Theology, DSPT

Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair of Philosophy, DSPT

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Eastern Catholics explain tradition, value of married priests (viz Byzantine, Texas)


Related:
The Deacon's Bench
St. Elias Today!
Orthocath

Fr. C. Smith on the New Pontifical Academy

Pontificia Academia Latinitatis

Primates of Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and Russian Orthodox Church celebrate Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - more photos

Rome Reports: New Coptic pope talks about the situation of Christians in Egypt

Rome Reports: Kiko Argüello from the Neocatecumenal Way talks about plans for the Year of Faith


The local Church needs to "outcult the cults," addressing through cells of prayer, fellowship and action those human inclinations which ecclesial movements have been successful in satisfying but at the risk of distortion in doctrine, the order of charity, or praxis (or liturgical practice).

Alumni Philosophers Present at National Conference

"Latin? We don't need no..."

Rorate Caeli: Motu Proprio "Latina Lingua", establishing the Pontifical Latin Academy

St. Thérèse's True Teaching on Deification

The real Thérèse of Lisieux and those letters that were tampered with by ANDREA TORNIELLI

It is a story of true holiness and manipulated documents that told by Gianni Gennari in his new book “Teresa di Lisieux, il fascino della santità. I segreti di una “dottrina” ritrovata” (Thérèse of Lisieux, The appeal of Sainthood. The secrets of a rediscovered “doctrine” – Lindau publishers, 616 pages, 38 Euros). And one recounted in meticulous detail and inspired by documents that remained unpublished until now. The volume reconstructs the life of an extraordinary woman. Saint Thérèse of the Child of Jesus is remembered by faithful as the “little saint” and is identified with the “spiritual infancy” described in Matthew’s Gospel: “If you do not change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

And yet Thérèse Françoise Marie Martin who died in the Carmel of Lisieux at the tender age of 24 in September 1897 and was canonised by Pius XI in 1925, never used the expression “spiritual infancy” in her original writings.

The book demonstrates very clearly that the doctrine of “spiritual infancy” was the brainchild of Thérèse’s sisters who were disciples of the Jesuit, Almire Pichon. Gennari writes that for fifty years, the sisters led everyone, including the Popes, to see in her the prefect embodiment of the teachings of their spiritual director. And they managed this on their own.” They did so by spreading their faith, by presenting Thérèse’s writings, which were often altered and manipulated, and also through their testimonies and the correspondence they exchanged with the Holy See when Popes needed to prepare speeches on the saint.

Interesting - an even better Catholic spirituality, grounded in divinization or theosis.

Psalm 33 - Greek Byzantine Music by NEKTARIA KARANTZI

Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville

Byzantine, TX: Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville) in dire financial straits

Arvo Pärt, "Passio"

Hierarchical Divine Liturgy- Kazan Icon- Казанской иконы Богоматерь (November 4, 2012)

Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi

Zenit: Between Tradition and the Modern World
An Introduction to the Thought of Fr. Bernard Lonergan

Chiesa: The "Credo" Against False Gods

This is the overriding objective of the year of faith desired by Benedict XVI. To bring men back to the one true God. And to depose from their thrones the false divinities that dominate the world

by Sandro Magister


Vatican Diary / What remains of the synod

Related: XIII Ordinary General Assembly

ordopraedicatorum: The Risk of Faith: The Example of the Saints

Fr. Lazarus El Anthony

A Monk's Life


Other parts can be found at these channels:
Coptic Youth Channel
tamav333

The Last Anchorite


Part 2

New Coptic Pope Elected

In pictures: Coptic pope chosen
New Coptic Pope is chosen in Egypt (Video)

Related links:
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate
Coptic Church
Coptic Orthodox Church Network
Encyclopedia Coptica

More videos:

Valaam Monastery - Beatitudes

A summary of a paper given by Laura Hohman at the Charles Homer Haskins Society conference at BC: Christian Living Explained: Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis liber in a Carolingian Instructional Manual

David Clayton

Divna Ljubojevic - We magnify Thee

DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2012- Dr. Michael Tkacz: Albert the Great and the New Aristotelianism

While I had blogged the announcement of the lecture, I apparently had not posted the archived video for it, so here it is:

DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2012- Dr. Michael Tkacz: Albert the Great and the New Aristotelianism from DSPT on Vimeo.

Requiem - Thomas Luis de Victoria

Some Familiar Names

TAC: Alumni Launch “The Charles De Koninck Project”

Zenit: ON THE ECCLESIAL NATURE OF FAITH
No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother.

Edward Feser, Hey kids! Free casuistry!

Byzantine, Texas: A new book on the theology of Alexander Schmemann

"Eucharist: A Prayer For Unity"

Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J.


Parts 2, 3, 6 (4?)

Robert Louis Wilken's New Book

Yale University Press: The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

Robert Louis Wilken's New Book

Yale University Press: The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

The Cornerstone #5: Bl. John Duns Scotus

The Cornerstone #5: Bl. John Duns Scotus by AirMaria

K. Whitehead on the Common Good and the Federal Government

Does Paul Ryan Threaten the Common Good? by Kenneth D. Whitehead

Robert Spaemann on the Council

Spaemann: Konzil hat Niedergang der Kirche eingeleitet (via Eponymous Flower)

Some Videos With Roberto De Mattei

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Roberto De Mattei - Presentazione libro "Il concilio Vaticano II" 1 parte (Parts 2 and 3 and 4)

Monsignor Gheradini on Vatican II

Some links to articles on Monsignor Brunero Gherardini.

Obtaining a copy of the English translation of his book appears to be difficult. I hope there is a second printing.

ON THE PASTORAL NATURE OF VATICAN II: AN EVALUATION

Ο ύμνος της αγάπης

Al Kimel, formerly of Pontifications, doesn't really talk about his conversion to Orthodoxy but gives his view of Orthodoxy and Orthodox theology, while mentioning some personal tragedies: Why Eclectic?

Kyrie eleison.

Retreats at Holy Resurrection Monastery

Retreats at HRM 2012-2013

These two are of interest:

April 12-14, 2013, The Mass, East and West

• Presenter: Abbot Nicholas

How can we serve the New Evangelization through our liturgical treasures? This retreat will help the Mass come alive for you in new ways.

May 24-26, 2013, The Jesus Prayer

• Presenter: Father Maximos

How can we “rejoice always and pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-17)? This retreat will be a practical introduction to prayer of the heart for lay people.

But the monastery is now located in Wisconsin... if I ever visit WI, I'd try to visit Providence Academy and the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe as well.

Novices (OP West): Ephrem the Syrian, Proto-Dominican

Vatican Insider: Russia: The Orthodox spring

Sarge and others are skeptical, but we should pray for rejuvenated local churches there (and the restoration of communion with the Bishop of Rome).

Thomistica.net: Weisheipl's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics Online

Ed Feser: The Charles De Koninck Project - the website.

Married Priests in the Roman Rite?

First Thoughts: UPDATED: John Haldane Calls for Married Priests

Despite the long history of the discipline of clerical celibacy in the Roman rite, I am not so attached to it. I would not be bothered if the rule was changed so that married men could be ordained to the priesthood. An increase in the number of smaller neighborhood communities (and their temples) would probably require an increase in the number of priests, and it is doubtful whether this would be financially viable for many urban areas in the United States. There would have to be a core group of members who could provide financial support for the community.

Is such a change necessary to increase the number of candidates to the priesthood? There is in the Western Patriarchate (or in the United States, at least) a crisis in authority rooted in a crisis in masculinity - admitting older married candidates may help alleviate certain problems in the exercise of authority and pastoral care, provided that they have the leadership qualities that the younger men lack (along with many bishops). Do we have a shortage of manly Catholic fathers?

Two on Natural Law

Thomistica.net: de lege naturae by Michael Pakaluk
Natural Law Ain’t About Falling Apples by Andrew Haines

"Eastern Catholicism," with Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis

Catholic Answers: (mp3)

Pope awards the 'Ratzinger Prize,' considered the Nobel of Theology

Pope on seven new saints: Their lives speak to the Universal Church


Pope's Homily on Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint



NLM: The Return of the Papal Fanon


The occasion did help me think of a birthday present for my niece.

Joint Liturgy of the Eastern American Diocese and Moscow Patriarchate (Oct. 13, 2012) - PREVIEW

Modernist architecture done right... because there is no bare space on the inside...

Μεθ ημών ο Θεός - Kabarnos Νικόδημος