A Return to a More Classical Style of Iconography?

Zenit and other Latin Catholic news agencies have been positing icons and mosaics for Holy Week - good for them.

Post by Zenit News Agency.

Viri selecti?

Post by Ignatius Press.

Fr Z and Rorate Caeli

NCReg: Strong Rebuttal to Metropolitan Hilarion's "Offensive Remarks" by Edward Pentin

Materialists...

Post by Mark's Daily Apple.

Chiesa: The Joys and Sorrows of Francis's Magisterium by Sandro Magister
The innovation in method of "Evangelii Gaudium" explained by an Australian theologian. But the pope is not always interpreted correctly. Not even by the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica." The emblematic case of the baptism in Córdoba

Photos: Fr. Thomas Joseph White at the DSPT

Post by Western Dominican Vocations.

Video of the lecture to come.

Abbot Nicholas on EWTN Live

Abbot of Holy Resurrection Monastery

Lazarus Saturday & Palm Sunday Tropar (Gr/Eng)

Feser Lecture at TAC

Post by Thomas Aquinas College.

An Interesting Marketing Attempt

Not "Creed" or the Latin translliteration(?), symbolum, but the Greek symbolon.


An attempt to make it seem more "classical" or Biblical? To show the continuity with the early Church?

Ignatius Press
Lighthouse Catholic Media

CRC: INFALLIBLE ? THE PRECEDENT SET BY SAINT PHILOMENA.

The Pope's New Catechetical Cycle: The Holy Spirit

Post by Zenit News Agency.

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The Cardinal Newman Society: Bioethics Expert Explains Harmony between Science and Faith at Christendom College

Dominicans, Western Province: Ordinations 2014

Fr. Cassian and Raymond Arroyo

Post by Monks of Norcia.

Pope Emeritus

Sandro Magister, The Pope's Third Embodiment
It is Benedict XVI's state of life after the resignation. He is no longer the vicar of Christ, but neither has he returned to private life. He is "pope emeritus," and he acts as such: an unprecedented innovation in the history of the Church

Libertine Atheism

Sandro Magister, The Pope and the Philosopher
His name is Alberto Methol Ferré. It is from him that Bergoglio draws his inspiration in evaluating the world and contrasting the new dominant culture: "libertine atheism." The pope's strict side with Obama

Bishop Aquila on Confirmation

"Send Forth Your Spirit"
On the Sacrament of Confirmation By Bishop Samuel J. Aquila
2011 Hillenbrand Lecture: The Sacrament of Confirmation - EWTN archive
Restoring the source and summit of faith
Denver archbishop advocates reordering of confirmation to liturgical commission

Upcoming William Carroll Talk

Post by Province of Saint Joseph: Dominican Friars of the Order of Preachers.

Thomistica.net: Essays on Garrigou-Lagrange

NCReg Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

The Pan-Orthodox Council, Ukraine Crisis and Christian Unity by EDWARD PENTIN
An interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Department of External Church Relations.

There Should Be a Version for the Latins

OCN: Every Time I Do My Cross by Presvytera Vassi Haros

To purchase the book go here.

Pravmir: Women and the Priesthood
The fact that women became equal to men in many spheres of human life, including politics, has nothing to do with the church order. In order to introduce female priesthood we need a new Revelation as powerful as the Revelation of the New Testament, and the creation of a New Testament Church. Since such a Revelation has not happened, we cannot make any radical changes to the established church order.

Abeer Nehme

in Arabic?

A Needed Pastoral Solution for... Priests?

Oratories and other societies of apostolic life.

Priests Battle the Pouring Dark of Loneliness
The temptation of loneliness can haunt priests alone at their parishes, but a variety of priestly fraternities are giving them ways of finding community with brother priests to sustain them.

Popular Buddhism

Courtesy of TED, of course.

Post by TED.

A Little Too Late to Save American Academia?

Post by The Cardinal Newman Society.

Catholic World Report: Mysticism, Monasticism, and the New Evangelization by Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis (Holy Ressurection Monastery) and Benjamin Mann

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on St. Benedict

Post by The Imaginative Conservative.

In Adam, Perhaps

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Not in Christ necessarily - there is no way for us to know if this is the case and there are signs that this is unlikely.

St. Mary of Egypt

Post by Elias N. Katsaros, Byzantine Iconographer.

Ignatius Press tbt

Post by Ignatius Press.

Between Constantinople and Rome

Post by Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Next Friday at the DSPT

DSPT Events

Dumb Ox Theology Forum: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP - Aquinas on Imperfect Happiness: Nature, Grace and the Final End of Man

Friday, April 11, 2014 DSPT Dumb Ox

Both Karl Barth and Henri De Lubac provided powerful, compelling visions of the relationship between the grace of God and human nature. However, their visions are in many respects opposed and incompatible. In his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas focuses on the imperfection of all natural human happiness, and on the natural desire for God. How does his vision provide a potential bridge between the diverse theologies of Barth and De Lubac?

Dumb Ox Theological Forum


Man, missed this - don't recall seeing it on my FB feed:

November 12, 2013 - Dr. Donald S. Prudlo jsu.edu , Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval History, Jacksonville State University - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation

Ever since the definition of Papal Infallibility at the First Vatican Council, there has been a lively debate in the Church about its meaning. This talk will address the roots of that doctrine in the middle ages, and in particular trace its development in the practice of the canonization of saints.
DSPT Dumb Ox Theology Forum - Canonization and Infallibility: An Historical, Canonical, and Theological Investigation Papal canonization did not really begin to take off until the 12th century. The challenge quickly became how to understand it apart from local and episcopal canonizations. At the same time various groups of heretics were beginning to challenge the doctrine of the Communion of saints, as well as the cultic practices of Christianity surrounding the tombs of its holy ones. In the 13th century the papacy and the new Mendicant orders established a symbiotic relationship that saw the elevation of Franciscan and Dominican saints. Some of these had been intimately involved in the suppression of heresy. Criticism of the cult of saints moved from the general to the particular, as individual saints came under attack. This forced the papacy and the Mendicant theologians to examine more closely the doctrine of papal canonization. By the end of
the thirteenth century, the difference had been established: papal canonizations enjoyed infallibility.
Canonization lies at the root of the personal infallibility dogma, and this will be the subject of the lecture.

Inside the Vatican: Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk – Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Related: "INSIDE THE VATICAN" MAGAZINE NAMED UGCC HEAD AMONG TOP 10 PEOPLE OF 2013

Prayer

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Orthodoxy & Heteodoxy: The Ecumenism of Fr. Georges Florovsky by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Capella Romana Performing at the Getty in May

Post by Cappella Romana.

Proof, So the Popularizers Say

Post by TED.

The Anaphoral Genesis

Post by Pontificio Istituto Orientale.

Pope Francis: We Must Open Ourselves to Christ's Light

Post by Zenit News Agency.

Lecio Divina With the Lectionary of the New Roman Missal?

Post by Dominicana.

NLM: The Sunday (and Feast) of St John Climacus

Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music: Symposium | Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm

Little?

What Can a Modern Philosopher Teach Us About Natural Law? by S. Adam Seagrave

The Human Dignity Canard

Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World by S. Adam Seagrave

We may, nevertheless, recognize a grain of truth in the moderns’ appreciation of the moral status of the individual human being. That appreciation coheres well with Christian moral theology but not with pre-modern moral and political philosophy. The moderns’ mistaken rejection of the unchanging objective contexts within which the individual exists led, in the thought of a select few, to a more profound understanding of human dignity than is available in any of the pre-moderns—including Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Locke’s nuanced and complex understanding of natural rights, in particular, provides an important philosophical elaboration on the Biblical account of humankind’s creation “in the image and likeness” of God. In tomorrow's article, I will examine this concept in greater depth.

Do we need a concept of dignity in order to have a full account of human flourishing and man's ultimate end? Or to explain the basis of charity or justice? I don't think so.

What is a citizen?

Post by Ignatius Press.

As bishops have always spoken? A naive assumption of duties with respect to the secular powers?

Pilgrimage Schedule for the Bishop of Rome to the Holy Land

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

This Should Be Published

Post by Sacra Liturgia 2013.

Waiting for Her to Retire

That will probably happen before the archbishop of Boston cleans up Boston College.

Post by The Cardinal Newman Society.

Need Google Translator: Накануне Воссоединения. Всенощная в Сретенском монастыре

Canonization of Saints: Limits to the Papal Office?

Chiesa: Vatican Diary / In a few months, six new saints canonized outside the rules

Can the pope, though, propose someone for veneration by the Church Universal without proper consultation and discernment from the bishops of other churches? If there is no cultus, how can this be possible? (How is the current procedure different from what was followed in the first millenium, when Latin saints, e.g. St. Gregory the Great and St. Benedict, were recognized by the Byzantine churches?)

I would guess that the official pronouncement makes a reference to the entire Church, rather than to the Latin churches, but is this proper? Can we understand the canonizations done by the bishop of Rome, either directly or mediately through other Latin bishops acting in his name, as being done through his role as Western "patriarch" rather than as pope, despite any official statements to the contrary?

"The Choir of the Holy Fathers: A Musical Synaxis in Honor of the Fathers of the 6th Ecumenical Council and St. Maximos the Confessor"

More

Kallistos Ware - Saint Gregory Palamas

St. Gregory Palamas & the Challenge of Barlaam

Academic lecture presented by the Very Reverend Protopresbyter Maxym Lysack.

A Mysterious Encounter with Fr. Jacque Philippe

Post by Scepter Publishers.

The hermeneutic of continuity: Questioning the Orthodox solution on divorce and remarriage

The hermeneutic of continuity: Questioning the Orthodox solution on divorce and remarriage

Sandro Magister's Assessment

Bergoglio, the General Who Wants to Win without Fighting
"I have never understood the expression 'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the dominant culture

DSPT Aquinas Lecture 2014

The video is now available for the lecture:

Aquinas Lecture 2014: Diana Fritz-Cates, PhD "Hatred in the Light of Love: A Thomistic Analysis"

No middle term, no mechanism.

Uncommon Descent: A world-famous chemist tells the truth: there’s no scientist alive today who understands macroevolution (vix Vox)

An Ignatian key to Pope's Lenten retreat

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Archbishop Alexander Sample

Latin traditionalists are happy about this...



NLM
Fr. Z

webpage & FB

Two from Ethika Politica

On Monastic Papacies by C.C. Pecknold
Francis, Benedict, and MacIntyre? By John Haldane

What's Seth MacFarlane 's Agenda?

Post by HitFix Entertainment News.

Dominicans sing Irish: The Parting Glass

CNA: Transcript: Pope Francis's March 5 Interview with Corriere Della Sera

OPEast: New Audio Recordings from the Thomistic Institute

Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.

Fr. K mentioned his name a couple of weeks ago. Apparently he is quite the liturgical scholar - here is a list of publications in that area. How many of his books are available at the SCU library?

(A Jesuit who knows liturgy! Apparently he is bi-ritual?)

No cassocks?

It's not summer yet, either... some of the priests of Rome:

Post by News.va English.

Such clerical dress is permitted - but is there any push for Roman priests to wear the cassock? Or is that an incidental that is not necessary for the new evangelization?

Interview with Benedict XVI

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

NCReg

Related:
The Secretary of 3 Popes Talks About Benedict's Renunciation (Part 1)

The Meaning of the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Post by Orthodoxy and the World.

STOTS: God is With Us - Great Compline 3/6/2014

By the Waters of Babylon


Tomb of Apostle Philip Found

Mospat: Meeting of Primates of Orthodox Churches starts in Istanbul

Post by Orthodoxy and the World.

Civitas Dei Medallion Award - Villanova University

2012 - Given to Alasdair MacIntyre. I don't think I've posted this video before.



Alasdair MacIntyre - Catholic Instead of What?

Fr. David gave a presentation on St. Maximus the Confessor - I definitely will need to read more, especially his use of "nature." For now it would have to be his writings in English translation. I should improve my Greek! Is there a study of his appropriation (and rejection) of Aristotle's teachings?

"There is no 'Christian style' without Jesus or the Cross."

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy: Is Orthodoxy the Same Everywhere?: Understanding Theological Controversy Within the Church by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Related:
Brotherly meeting of Primates of Church of Constantinople and Russian Church takes place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople
Commission for the preparation of the meeting of Primates of Local Orthodox Churches concludes its work
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill arrives in Istanbul to take part in the meeting of Primates of Orthodox Churches

Fisher More Responds

Rorate Caeli: For the record: College responds
Both Board and President release statements

Related:
CWR: Bishop of Fort Worth draws the line [UPDATED] By Michael J. Miller

CWR: Can We Talk About Fasting? by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Some thoughts on the Western and Eastern approaches to food and fasting during the Lenten season.

First Things: Against Heterosexuality by Michael W. Hannon
The idea of sexual orientation is artificial and inhibits Christian witness.

Fisher More College

Rorate Caeli: Guest Op-Ed: First Things First
The Traditional Latin Mass and the Fort Worth Affair

Dr. Taylor Marshall provides some information as to what has been going on with the school:

Post by Dr. Taylor Marshall.

Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Pravmir: The Who’s Who of The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete


(2011)

Coffee with Sister Vassa Ep.20 (Adam's Lament / 1st Week of Lent)

Vatican: Eucharist on Ash Wednesday

his homily

Kasper Changes the Paradigm, Bergoglio Applauds by Sandro Magister

The no-longer-secret text of the bombshell talk that opened the consistory on the family. With the indication of two paths of readmission to communion for the divorced and remarried. According to the example of the ancient Church

Orthodox Arts Journal: Holy Icons in Today’s World (Pt.1): Insight into Contemporary Issues by Aidan Hart

Related: Book Review: Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity

NLM: The Theology of Church Archtitecture - a lecture by Denis McNamara
by David Clayton

Interview with Alice von Hildebrand: Should Pope Paul VI be Canonized?

EWTN Bookmark - 2014-2-2 - Dark Night of the Body

NLM: The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts: Guest Article by Dr. Kyle Washut

The Pope as Universal Teacher

One of his roles that is in dispute by the Orthodox, and not something that was definite in the first several centuries, though papal claims to this authority were made in the 400s (according to Wilken; I'll have to look up the reference). The exercise of this function does seem to contribute to the personality cult surrounding the pope (especially the current pontiff, Francis) and to certain understandings of the papal office (an interpretation of Vatican I and the like) - one brand of ultramontanism.

Would all of this communication be possible without the mass media, a staff of translators, and cheap energy to sustain both? Will it always be possible to have translators would be sensitive to the nuances of another theological language? And is there any guarantee that a pope will know another theological language well enough (e.g. Greek) so as to effectively communicate with a different ecclesial culture? Or other languages to evangelize every non-Christian in the world? Are "universal" languages even possible? (MacIntyre would claim no.)

A pope may be a polyglot, but knowing every language necessary to teach every single human being effectively? Impossible, without a gift of the Holy Spirit, and we have seen in the normal "operation" of the Church, such a gift has not been given, except at Pentecost?

Now it may be necessary for someone to address a concern affecting the Church Universal, during some time of emergency or crisis. But as an 'normal,' everyday exercise? Would that be possible in an energy-constricted world?

Fr. Thomas Kocik Responds

NLM: Reforming the Irreformable? A Postscript

Related: From Peter Kwasniewski --
Lectio Divina: What, Where, When
Just Say No to '65!

The Theology of the Offertory - Part 2: the Offertory and Priesthood in the Liturgy by Gregory DiPippo

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom on Forgiveness Sunday

VIDEO: Metropolitan Anthony Bloom – On Forgiveness Sunday

Fr. Sergei: Fasting for Non-Monastics

He was at last year's Ss. Cyril and Athanasius Orthodox Institute symposium.

Fr. Cassian on Lectio Divina

Post by Monks of Norcia.

Is profit possible without surplus? How much surplus is possible in a ustainable system?

Dom Philip Anderson on EWTN Live

Rorate Caeli: Pope Francis: "Bishops, Enough with Congresses, Conferences and Travels! The Decrees of Trent must be obeyed: a Bishop must truly reside in his diocese."

The solution is not to abolish national episcopal conferences (though the concept may need to be re-examined and the existence of some is questionable, i.e. that of the United States, since the United States was not formed as a unitary nation but as a federation of polities). Rather, local synods may need to be the ideal (Bavaria, not Germany), guided by a better understanding of a more humane scale of travel and interaction (as well as group identity).

Peter Kwasniewski Clarifies

NLM: Clarifications on the Reform of the Reform Controversy by Peter Kwasniewski

Does Professor Kwasniewski address Dave Armstrong or Fr. Angelo? (Would he want to?)

See also: Home from the Liturgical Thirty Years War

Byzantine, Texas: More on upcoming Pan-Orthodox meeting in Constantinople