“Newman, Vatican II, and the Hermeneutic of Continuity,” by Ian Ker

Lumen Christi Intstitute
http://player.vimeo.com/video/41242037

Chiesa: Between Rome and Dakar, the Machiavellianisms of Sant'Egidio

Summer 2013 Lumen Christi Institute Graduate Seminar with Russell Hittinger

Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
August 5-9, 2013
, University of California, Berkeley


More Graduate Seminars in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

Thomistic Institute Summer 2013 Conference

Dominicans and the Renewal of Thomism - July 1-5, 2013

Pacem in Terris

A conference last year -

Tu Weiming

Website.
Philosophy Now interview.

He is no longer director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. I see that he was giving some public lectures last year at Stanford. I missed out... but some vidoes are available below.





Confucian Humanism as Spiritual Exercise
Confucian Humanism as Scholarly Inquiry

Marek Jeziorek has some more videos of Professor Tu.

In a documentary by Bill Moyers -

Parts 2 and 3.

Homi Bhabha hosts Tu Weiming (杜维明) on 2010-04-07 at Harvard Humanities Center

Dr. Hittinger for the Lumen Christi Institute

VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: "Benedict's Teaching for Dark Ages, His and Ours," by Russell Hittinger

Fr. Joseph Kenny, O.P., RIP

The Living Bread from Heaven

Nagel on Scientific Materialism

Is Scientific Materialism “Almost Certainly False”? by John Horgan

A review of Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False.

Edward Feser has a series of posts on critics of Nagel; unfortunately he has not labelled his posts.


Related:

A Historical Survey of Liturgical Praxis in the Latin West

by a historian who has written about St. Thomas More, James Monti - A Sense of the Sacred: Roman Catholic Worship in the Middle Ages.

TAC: College Unveils Renderings of New Building, St. Gladys Hall

English Translation of Roberto de Mattei's Book Now Available

Loreto Publications

SPIRITUAL WAVES || Documentary about the Restoration of Jordanville

Related:
Ordination of Father Philosoph to Priesthood at Holy Trinity Monastery

Dr. Demetrios Katos on the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

OCN (mp3)

Divine Adoption

Zenit: ON GOD THE ALMIGHTY FATHER
"Despite the Crisis of Fatherhood in Many Societies, the Scriptures Show us Clearly what it Means to Call God 'Father'"

On the Lord’s Prayer
By Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh (+2003)

News.Va: Ukrainian eparch reflects on New Evangelization

Fr. Sherwin's Lecture at TAC

“Virtue, Ethics, and the Christian Life: Thomistic Reflections”

Remembering Ralph McInerny by Christopher Kaczor (via TAC)

Rome Reports: Latin, the most modern dead language in the world

For the Feast of St. Thomas

Whether St. Thomas is Boring? by Br. Raymund Snyder, O.P.

The New Definition of Common Good, Again

Begun on January 17.

How often does it need to be repeated and referenced, before it is established in the minds of Catholics as being of Tradition? As it stands, is the definition currently in vogue sufficiently precise? What is a necessary social condition and what is ideal or desirable but not necessary?

Zenit: NOTE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S FREEDOM OF INSTITUTIONAL AUTONOMY

Given by the Permanent Representation of the Holy See to the Council of Europe regarding the Catholic Church's freedom and institutional autonomy.

1. The distinction between the Church and the political community
The Church recognizes the distinction between the Church and the political community, each of which has distinct ends; the Church is in no way confused with the political community and is not bound to any political system. The political community must see to the common good and ensure that citizens can lead a "calm and peaceful life" in this world. The Church recognizes that it is in the political community that the most complete realization of the common good is to be found (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1910); this is to be understood as "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily" (ibid., n. 1906). It is the State’s task to defend it and ensure the cohesion, unity and organization of society in order that the common good may be realized with the contribution of all citizens and that the material, cultural, moral and spiritual goods necessary for a truly human existence may be made accessible to everyone. The Church, for her part, was founded in order to lead the faithful to their eternal end by means of her teaching, sacraments, prayer and laws.

Returning to the exposition given in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, it is stated that the common good is not "the simple sum of the particular[private?] goods of each subject of a social entity." Rather, "belonging to everyone and to each person, it is and remains 'common', because it is indivisible and because only together is it possible to attain it, increase it and safeguard its effectiveness, with regard also to the future." What, then, is it, if it belongs to each person and not common in praedicando? "The common good, in fact, can be understood as the social and community dimension of the moral good." Para 165 continues this line of thought. As stated before, the latter development is quite in harmony with Thomistic (traditional?) teaching on the common good.

It is still not clear to me if the first (or instrumental) sense can be harmonized with the second (or holistic) sense given in the Compendium. If the social or community dimension of the moral good is identical to the fulfillment of people as a group (specifically as the political community), then how can it be identical to the social conditions which enable it to be brought about? This confusion needs to be resolved - otherwise, devout Catholics who seek to talk about the common good may be doing so erroneously.

End of Christian Unity Week

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI meets with Oriental Orthodox Church leaders


Benedict XVI: Ecumenism requires a personal conversion to heal past wounds


Zenit: Papal Address to Orthodox-Catholic Commission
"All Christians need to work together in mutual acceptance and trust"

Medievalists.net: Ordering the medieval past : England and the continent compared

Pravmir: The Great Fathers of the Fourth Century and Their Significance for Us Today by Fr. John Nankivell

C21's issue on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

here (via Mirror of Justice)

Enough for some to repudiate the use of that term?

BC's The Church in the 21st Century Center hasn't gone out of business yet. C21 videos.

Other Speakers for the Upcoming Saints Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria Symposia

Information on our Symposia Speakers and Titles

Interview with Iconographer Marek Czarnecki

Seraphic Restorations

Rome Reports: Vatican sends proposal letter to Lefebvrians

Ethika Politika: Filling the Holes in the Swiss-Cheese Theory of Natural Law By Michael W. Hannon

The Beautiful and Efficient Anatomy of Pregnancy

Byzantine-rite Liturgy of the Hours

Thread at Byz Cath. Eastern Christian Publications - Let Us Pray to the Lord.

Rorate Caeli: Di Noia's letter - full text in French

(Some background info: Di Noia sends letter to SSPX priests - via Menzingen)

CNEWA launches Rome event for Eastern Catholic Churches (with an interview with the President of CNEWA, Monsignor John Kozar)

Fr. Lombardi Speaks

Lombardi editorial: Against arms

Zenit: ON CHRIST AS MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
'Jesus [] is Truly God Among Us, 'The Mediator and the Fullness of All Revelation'"

Tomorrow at SVOTS

Dr. Peter Brown to deliver annual Schmemann Lecture at St. Vladimir’s Seminary Friday, January 18

Conversation With Bishop Kallistos Ware

From last year -

The virtue of justice: Ad alterum by Michael A. Hayes

It looks good, on first reading, but does it lack in precision? Acts of particular justice are towards the other, and they are ordered to the common good, through legal justice, and charity. But is the virtue of justice necessary for Christian morality? How is it different from the love of neighbor or of the common good?

The archives for Pastoral Review have been taken down? There was an interesting article from 2006 about the diaconate and its relation to "service."

The Chant Cafe: St. Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer

The Smithy mentions a forthcoming book, Later Medieval Metaphysics
Ontology, Language, and Logic, and quotes an author of one of its essays, Terence Parsons, for his definition of medieval logic:

The first task is to decide what to count as medieval logic. Medieval logic consists of centuries of work by some very smart people working in a difficult area. I will be libertine about what is included in medieval logic. If any medieval logician ever said it, and if it is worthwhile, it is part of medieval logic.

It is rather circular, if a medieval logician is someone who writes about medieval logic. But Parsons probably refers to commentaries on the texts of Aristotlte and so on instead.

Via Mystagogy: A Pilgrim's View of Christmas on Mount Athos (Video)

A Short History of the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy

Fr. Taft - Robert Taft S. J., The Evolution of the Byzantine “Divine Liturgy”
(Orientalia Christiana Periodica XLIII, Roma 1977, p. 8-30)

I found the part on the litany interesting - I wish the article were longer, I'm not sure if he has a short book that would be a good supplement.

I've posted this video before? Maybe not:

Godzdogz: Dominican Seminar 2013 - Fr. Gerald Vann OP

BBC: In pictures: Orthodox Christmas celebrations
Vatican Insider

A New Grammar for the Year of Faith - with a piece from Fr. Robert Imbelli.

Brian Douglass on the Right to Self-Defense

The Question of a Right to Self-Defense

Christian Order

The website appears to be lagging less in updates, but limited content is available online. There is this article by James Likoudis, published in March of last year: MUHAMMED II, THE SCOURGE OF CHRISTENDOM, AND THE BYZANTINE SCHISM

I see that it was originally published in The Wanderer.

There is this editorial from May, regarding Vatican 2 and the SSPX.

Yet as we have often documented with a heavy heart, the Holy Father's commitment to the Vatican II vehicle he helped engineer is itself a stumbling block. Was it really necessary to place the defense of that problematic pastoral Council and its texts (often ambiguous, contradictory or superficial as he readily admits) at the very centre of discussions? After all, SSPX objections merely echo similar concerns voiced by eminent theologians who also accept the validity of the Council while decrying its subversive content and purpose. The highly esteemed Msgr Bruno Gherardini, to cite just one, insists that “Modernism hid itself under the cloak of Vatican II,” and that “Modernist corruption has hidden itself within the Council documents themselves.” The ongoing harvest of rotten Conciliar fruits, therefore, cannot all be attributed to rebellious appeals to a bogus "spirit of Vatican II." That malign "spirit" is often spelt out by the slippery "letter" of the Council itself; in weasel-worded phrases like "The Church of God subsists in the Catholic Church," instead of ‘The Church of God is the Catholic Church.’ As a wag observed: Anybody can say "is." Only an expensive lawyer can say "subsists."

Regardless, Tùbingen Benedict's unflagging devotion to the Council has not dampened Bavarian Benedict's yearning to have its most severe critics piped aboard the mangled Barque of Peter — "a boat about to sink," he warned dramatically in 2005, "a boat taking in water on all sides." It seems that the Benedictine anomaly is trumped by this pressing corporate reality, requiring all hands on deck — even those "sectarian" zealots he once felt "we cannot resist too firmly" [Principles of Catholic Theology, 1987, pp. 389-90].

Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ Reviews IP's ENCHIRIDION SYMBOLORUM

Here. (via Insight Scoop)

Bloopers Reel for Orthodox in Dixie

Journey to the Midwest?

Maybe a retreat at Holy Transfiguration Skete would be nice. Or Holy Resurrection Monastery?

Zenit: ARCHBISHOP NICHOL'S STATEMENT ON PASTORAL CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SAME-SEX ATTRACTIONS IN LOCAL PARISH

"This Care has been Motivated by an Awareness of the Difficulties and Isolation they can Experience and by the Imperative of Christ's Love for all"

Yale Courses: Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118)

Contemporary Communitarianism (Alasdair MacIntyre)





19. The Burkean Outlook

James Chastek on Nominalism

Two posts today: first and second parts.

Alasdair MacIntyre - Ends and Endings

A lecture at CUA from 2009.

Orthodox in Dixie

Here is the full movie:

(ROCOR Eastern American Diocese)

Saints Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria Institute for Orthodox Studies: Prayer in the Church Fathers, with Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia

In Northern California (San Francisco): 16th-17th February, 2013

A lecture on the Jesus Prayer.

From 4 years ago:

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware at St Botolphs from Antiochian Orthodox on Vimeo.

On Behalf of All: The Eucharistic Liturgy in Ancient House Churches

Back, for now. Will post my plans for the year when I have some time.

Zenit: Pope's Homily at Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God [2013-01-02]

Zenit: ON THE FEAST OF ST. STEPHEN
"St. Stephen is a Model for All Those Who Want to Serve the New Evangelization"

Rome Reports - Review of January 2012

Rome Reports: January 2012: Pope approves several liturgies of the Neocatechumenal Way

Rome Reports: Urbi et Orbi: Benedict XVI issues Christmas greeting in over 65 languages and includes message to China


Zenit: On the Visitation
"Let us Strive Again to Make Room in our Hearts to Welcome the Christ Dhild with Love and Humility"
Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message
"Truth has Sprung Up, Bringing Kindness, Justice and Peace"
Benedict XVI's Christmas Eve Homily
"What would happen if Mary and Joseph were to knock at my door"

Chant Cafe: The Musical Portions of the Christmas Vigil

Misc.
Friend Honors Author Who Criticized Abuse of Vatican II
Michael Davies Was a 'Man of the Church'

Should be leaving today for AZ. Be back next week.

ΚΑΤΑΒΑΣΙΕΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΩΝ XRISTOYGENNA

Kabarnos Νικόδημος

Today the Virgin Gives Birth... (Kontakion of the Nativity, Znamenny chant)

A wish list for books published by University of Notre Dame Press:

Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms by Thomas F. Ryan
Does God Suffer? by Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M.
John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master by Jack Zupko
Logic and Philosophy: An Integrated Introduction by William H. Brenner
A Dialogue on Natural Philosophy (Dragmaticon Philosophiae) by William of Conches
Translated by Matthew Curr and Italo Ronca
Treatise on Divine Predestination by John Scottus Eriugena
Translated by Mary Brennan
Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal by Paul R. Kolbet
Loving the Fine: Virtue and Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics by Anna Lännström
Happiness and Benevolence by Robert Spaemann
Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought Edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko
God's Grace and Human Action: 'Merit' in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas by Joseph P. Wawrykow
The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? by Annibale Fantoli
Translated by George V. Coyne, S.J.
Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio by John Lee Longeway

Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, Revised Edition
Jacques Maritain
Edited by Otto Bird
Translated by Otto Bird, Joseph Evans, and Richard O’Sullivan, K.C.

Now Available for Pre-Ordering

From University of Notre Dame Press:
What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?
Philosophical Essays in Honor of Alasdair MacIntyre
Edited by Fran O'Rourke

I am considering getting a copy of this - Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism, edited by Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight

But will the contributors to the volume give too much of a "leftist spin" on MacIntyre? Is investigating if this is this the case and reading MacIntyre's response worth the price of the book, even with 40% off (until the end of the month)? I think I will see if it is available at a local university library first. Here's a review of the book at NDPR.

Another book I will delay purchasing: Reason, Tradition, and the Good: MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Jeffery L. Nicholas
A review at NDPR.

Aeon Magazine: End of Byzantium by Helena Drysdale
Besieged by a majority Turkish culture, Istanbul's Ecumenical Patriarch Barthomelew I attempts a cosmopolitan revival

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
“Bartholomew is Seeking to Reinvigorate Dialogue With Roman Catholics”

Lee Cheek reviews Political Philosophy: A Historical Introduction by Michael J. White: A Good Introduction to Political Philosophy

St. Ambrose of Milan: Heeding God’s Call by Archpriest Alexander Men (+1990)

Mystagogy: Florovsky on St. Ignatius of Antioch

Lynette Hull, Re-creation of the Icon

(via Byzantine, Texas)

The Debate on Logic

The Difference between Traditional and Modern Logic and the Difference it Makes (via First Thoughts, which refers on a recent Peter Kreeft article - William Randolph Brafford's first post responding to Kreeft - see the comments posted there)

Related:
Henry Babcock Veatch's Two Logics

Byzantine, TX: Accolades continue to roll in for film "Archimandrite" - Pravoslavie

Vatican Insider: Israel: Dead Sea scrolls go online

Jimmy Akin, Whoa! 1st Century Info About Mark's Gospel!

December 15, 2012 - Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew

Making a Mountain...

Aristotle and Aquinas: The Vital Difference by Don DeMarco, Ph. D.

As far as I'm concerned, personalism is not a significant difference between the ethics of Aquinas and that of Aristotle. (We might even ask the question of whether contenmporary personalism is even important to the moral theology of Aquinas, or if we are just trading one word, e.g. human, for another, person.)

"The difference between the ethics of Aristotle and Aquinas has to do with how virtue comes about. It is reasonable to be virtuous. Surely “honesty is the best policy.” That is simply a reasonable statement that does not require love. And virtue, for Aristotle, lies between two extremes. Thus, the virtue of courage, for example, is the midpoint between the vices of timidity and foolishness. This is all very sensible, though something is missing.

Perhaps Aristotle overestimated our capacity to be reasonable and under-estimated the importance of love. Whereas Aristotle links virtue to reason, Aquinas links it more properly to love. Therefore, as the Angelic doctor states, “Love is the form of all virtues.” This means that every virtue derives its degree of virtuousness by its association with love."

The important difference is that Aristotle writes from a non-Christian perspective, one which is unaided by Divine Revelation. Aristotle does not talk about "love" but he does talk about friendship in all of its forms, as it exists between human beings. But not, friendship between man and God. Should we be surprised then that he has no understanding of the beatitude to which we are called, or the grace that is necessary? No account of the "supernatural organism" which is so central to the moral theology of Aquinas (and of good Christian moral theology in general)?

The differences in their ethics is not due to competing accounts of human nature (with respect to the material or formal causes) - but with respect to human nature as it relates to its Creator, God.

James Chastek, Rights and Justice

St. Thomas makes rights the object of justice, and they are recognizable as rights in our own sense (e.g. they are divided into natural and legal rights, and slaves as slaves do not have any). One important difference is that, by locating them in the context of justice, rights are properly had by others. It is certainly true that I have rights, but when I say this I am considering them so far as they can make someone else just. To consider rights as my own leaves them recognizable as rights, but it prescinds from the context that could make me a good, virtuous, happy person.

1. Ius (pl. iura) is the object of justice that is true; to translate it as right is potentially misleading since what is meant as ius by St. Thomas is not the same as what we mean by right in the sense of a moral faculty or freedom to do a certain action. It is proper to the Bill of Rights to list these moral faculties in order to safeguard them from being infringed by the Federal Government. The Bill of Rights sets to make explicit the limits to the authority of the Federal Government. [subjective active rights]

2. The other subjective "right," a title or claim to something, may be bound up with St. Thomas's notion of ius. Ius, as explained by St. Thomas, is proper to ethics is moral theology - determining what is owed to another, what must be done/rendered to another (an action, first of all) by a moral agent. Determining what is owed to me is proper to a judge or someone else mediating a dispute, though it is not without the flip side - if I have a legitimate claim to something, then it must be given to me. [subjective passive rights]

Zenit: On The Fruits of Conversion
"It Is There, in Our Conduct, That We Must Show That We Are Following His Will"

Deneen Responds to Schlueter

Re: Natural Law Liberalism - Beyond Wishful Thinking: A Response to Schlueter

Znamenny Chant by Fr. Simon Pimen

(via Byzantine, TX)

Another Interview with Fr. Gabriel

Pravmir: One Cannot Be Anything More Than a Christian: A Conversation with Fr. Gabriel (Bunge)

Father Peter Galadza on Light of the East

Light of the East: #427: Father Peter Galadza (mp3)

I think Fr. Galadza touches upon the question of married priests in the Eastern churches.

Related: #426: The Maronite Church (mp3)
The Light Of The East #424: An Eastern Monk (mp3)

Beatitudes, Mode 1

Crisis Magazine: “Go Read Your Thomas” by Brian Jones

"Following and expanding upon the tradition handed down to him, St. Thomas taught that reality had an intelligible order to it which aligned with our internal knowledge-based development."

??? I will have to think about what the author is trying to say here...

"Modern man is frequently provided with more education than ever before, but seems to understand himself less and less. There is no metaphysical framework that allows us to understand ourselves, the world we are in, how we ought to act, and ultimately, God. College has become the summum bonum for the youth, but it has not proven to be a community that truly helps young people to ask the deepest questions concerning life that make it more authentically human."

Metaphysics is important and the highest of the naturally knowable sciences, but it is unlikely to be attained by more than a few. There is no "metaphysical framework" because our society at large has rejected Christianity and continues to do so, while lacking the intellectual "elites" lack the requisite skills and moral character to recognize their ignorance.

Byzantine, TX: Chrysostom Seminar in Rome discusses clerical celibacy

Alexander Schmemann on the Ordained Priesthood

Synaxis: Remembering Father Alexander Schmemann: Ministry and Vocation

Father Schmemann strongly argues that there is no special or unique vocation of the priesthood other than to reveal to others the common vocation of the entire people of God: to always offer thanksgiving to God. He was adamant that any theological or doctrinal separation between the vocations of the clergy and the laity is a false one, which reduces the priesthood to a separate caste of people, much like the Levites in the Old Testament, and thereby encourages clericalism. According to Schmemann, “If there are priests in the Church, if there is the priestly vocation in it, it is precisely in order to make the whole life of all the liturgy of the Kingdom, to reveal the Church as the royal priesthood of the redeemed world.” Thus the priest fulfills the calling of everyone who is a member of the royal priesthood, to offer prayer and praise to God and become fully a priest over creation, always giving thanks for everything.

Continue reading.

Related:
Elder Paisios On Those Called To Be Clergymen
Today's Need for Bright and Transparent Cassocks
Elder Ephraim Katounakiotis: On the Priesthood (1)

Reflections on the Final Volume of Pope Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth"

Tonight's panel discussion at the DSPT will be streamed live. The discussion commences at 7:30 P.M. (PST).

The Beatitudes- Znamenny Chant (English)

Is a notion of ritual impurity sustainable in Christianity?

Via Byzantine, Texas: Purify Her Uncleanness by Carrie Frederick Frost
December 11, 2012

"Gregory" attempts to explain certain practices not through "ritual impurity" but concerns about physical integrity and safeguarding the mysteries, or something. Do the prayers and practices admit of this interpretation? This topic is somewhat new to me.

Sister Vassa Larin's opinion. And a response to Sister Vassa Larin by Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov. (He also has a follow-up article.)

Also from Byzantine, TX: Confession and the contrite heart

Will we return to this practice?

Infant Communion: The Ancient Western Tradition by Fr. John A. Peck

He cites the work of Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J.

Some Catholics similarly advocate that Confirmation be restored to its place right after Baptism.

Natural Law Liberalism

Is this how we should understand the American founding fathers?

Sustainable Liberalism by Nathan Schlueter (via First Thoughts)

Previously...
Better than Our Philosophy: A Response to Muñoz by Patrick J. Deneen

Why Social Conservatives Should Be Patriotic Americans: A Critique of Patrick Deneen by Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI and Cardinal Marc Ouellet open Americas conference at the Vatican


Zenit: Pope Benedict Addresses International Congress on "Ecclesia in America"
Calls on Participants to Focus on Problems Due to Secularism
Pope's Address to Participants of "Ecclesia In America" International Congress [2012-12-10]
Cardinal Ouellet Presides Over Opening Mass of International Congress on "Ecclesia in America"
Three Day Congress Will Focus on Evangelization in North and South America
Cardinal Ouellet's Homily at Opening Mass of the International Congress on "Ecclesia in America" [2012-12-10]

Rome Reports: Pope honors Our Lady on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception


Zenit: Pope Venerates Image of Virgin Mary on Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Traditional Tribute Takes Place in Rome
Pope's Immaculate Conception Address at the Spanish Steps
"Mary Immaculate Teaches Us to Listen to the Voice of God that Speaks in Silence" [2012-12-09]

The Christian Origins of Islam by Peter J. Leithart

Dr. Leithart refers to Christoph Luxenberg's The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran and to a collection of essays, The Hidden Origins of Islam.

Dr. Kevin White on the Consequences of Introducing the Microphone to Liturgy

Citing Marshall McLuhan... Drop the Mic (via First Thoughts)

Zenit: ON AWAITING THE COMING OF THE LORD
"Let us Prepare to See, with the Eyes of Faith, Gods Salvation in the Humble Grotto of Bethlehem"

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