How much (supernatural) prudence is required for the discernment of whether someone has entered into the glory of God or not, as opposed to the movement of the Holy Spirit? It makes sense to me for this to be left in the hands of the local bishop, who might have more of a familiarity with the person in question, or at least with the local cult of that person, as opposed to using a bureaucratic means of assessing that person's holiness. It also makes sense for that person to be adopted into the local liturgical calendar first, and then adopting that feast in the universal calendar of that rite, after the cult has spread, etc. But do bishops no longer have that "authority" to change the local liturgical calendar? Or is it a right that they can reclaim for themselves from the bishop of Rome?
Does a patriarch have sole authority over the liturgical calendar for his region or "particular Church" or rite?
How much of the average Latin Catholic's judgment concerning the sanctity of a person is shaped by that person's exposure through the mass media, a form of "marketing" as it were, rather than by personal familiarity with that person, or knowing someone who is familiar with that person? Should the opinion of someone shaped solely by mass media be taken into consideration in assessing the state of the cult? What role does faith play in the private or public judgment of individuals of someone else's sanctity? Plenty were told Fr. Maciel was a saint and believed it.
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Friday, September 02, 2016
Pravmir: Praying Without Ceasing by Priest Ernesto Obregon
Praying without ceasing - how on Earth am I supposed to do that?
Praying without ceasing - how on Earth am I supposed to do that?
The "subjective turn" or the "interior turn" -- what distinguished devotio moderna and successive trends in Western spirituality from classical and patristic forms of prayer?
Can we really begin learning about prayer with mental prayer, skipping over vocal prayer? How can mental prayer be separated from a formation in lectio divina and liturgical prayer? (Would that be an accurate characterization of the emphasis of much of popular, contemporary Latin spirituality?) Meditations divorced from the liturgical cycle?
A Beginner’s Guide to Mental Prayer
Published by Ignatius Press at the beginning of this year: The Contemplative Hunger by Fr. Donald Haggerty. (Introduction at Insight Scoop.)
Can we really begin learning about prayer with mental prayer, skipping over vocal prayer? How can mental prayer be separated from a formation in lectio divina and liturgical prayer? (Would that be an accurate characterization of the emphasis of much of popular, contemporary Latin spirituality?) Meditations divorced from the liturgical cycle?
A Beginner’s Guide to Mental Prayer
Published by Ignatius Press at the beginning of this year: The Contemplative Hunger by Fr. Donald Haggerty. (Introduction at Insight Scoop.)
The Remnant: World Youth Day: Vatican Venue for Sex Education by Michael Matt
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
So the Vatican has ramped up its preoccupation with sex. As has been widely reported here and elsewhere, they've now got their very own sex-education program up and running. Published by the Pontifical Council for the Family, “The Meeting Point: The Adventure of Love,” purports to bring young people up to speed on the question of sex and chastity. And who better to do that than those paragons of virtue over at that Vatican.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
So the Vatican has ramped up its preoccupation with sex. As has been widely reported here and elsewhere, they've now got their very own sex-education program up and running. Published by the Pontifical Council for the Family, “The Meeting Point: The Adventure of Love,” purports to bring young people up to speed on the question of sex and chastity. And who better to do that than those paragons of virtue over at that Vatican.
CWR: Cardinal Raymond Burke on Life, Truth, Mother Teresa, Islam, and Cardinal Sarah
Speaking to reporters from Rome about his new book, the American prelate goes on record about Christians and Muslims (they don't worship the same God) and Cardinal Sarah (“I agree with him completely...").
By Carl E. Olson
In a wide-ranging international teleconference call on Monday with media members, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke spoke in detail about many timely topics. These included the priority of standing up for life in addressing poverty and other social ills, the witness and message of Mother Teresa, essential differences between Christianity and Islam, and the recent controversy over remarks by Car...
Speaking to reporters from Rome about his new book, the American prelate goes on record about Christians and Muslims (they don't worship the same God) and Cardinal Sarah (“I agree with him completely...").
By Carl E. Olson
In a wide-ranging international teleconference call on Monday with media members, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke spoke in detail about many timely topics. These included the priority of standing up for life in addressing poverty and other social ills, the witness and message of Mother Teresa, essential differences between Christianity and Islam, and the recent controversy over remarks by Car...
Thursday, September 01, 2016
“Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development"
Fr. Z: Pope Francis creates a one new Dicastery out of four, which will be suppressed
Rorate Caeli
More lecturing of civil governments and states to come. Though some might think that the consolidation of 4 into one might mean that the output would be less. But don't underestimate what can be done in a bureaucracy?
Rorate Caeli
More lecturing of civil governments and states to come. Though some might think that the consolidation of 4 into one might mean that the output would be less. But don't underestimate what can be done in a bureaucracy?
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Chiesa: Double Friendly Fire Against the “Pope Emeritus”
First Cardinal Brandmüller, then Bishop Sciacca. The one an illustrious historian, the other a luminary of canon law. Both of the circle closest to Ratzinger. But both absolutely opposed to his continuing to have himself called pope
First Cardinal Brandmüller, then Bishop Sciacca. The one an illustrious historian, the other a luminary of canon law. Both of the circle closest to Ratzinger. But both absolutely opposed to his continuing to have himself called pope
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Eastern Christian Books: Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity
Eastern Christian Books: Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity
Ordered passion/emotion? Or some variation of the care ethic?
Ordered passion/emotion? Or some variation of the care ethic?
What's the point?
Should these meetings just be discontinued? If there are to be such meetings, they should be done with local bishops.
Monday, August 29, 2016
I Ought to Get a Copy of The Beginning of the Gospel
Will SVS Press publish the English translation?
DECR
Pravmir: Metropolitan Hilarion: I Owe Everything in My Life to the Church by Anna Danilova, Ph.D.
(via Liturgical Notes and The Moynihan Letter
DECR
Pravmir: Metropolitan Hilarion: I Owe Everything in My Life to the Church by Anna Danilova, Ph.D.
(via Liturgical Notes and The Moynihan Letter
If That Was His Primary Reason for Resigning
Then he could have cancelled WYD 2013. If that wasn't an option because too much had already been invested, then could he not have delegated to another bishop? But then WYD would not have had the same drawing power.
All the reason more for it to be done away with now.
The Moynihan Letter: Letter #52, 2016: Why Benedict Resigned
All the reason more for it to be done away with now.
The Moynihan Letter: Letter #52, 2016: Why Benedict Resigned
Two New Books on the Theology of Louis Bouyer
One in French, the other in Italian:
L'humanisme eschatologique de Louis Bouyer de Sœur Marie-David Weill
Alessandro Scardoni:
Louis Bouyer: itinerario di una teologia mistica tra dossologia e sofiologia
L'humanisme eschatologique de Louis Bouyer de Sœur Marie-David Weill
Alessandro Scardoni:
Louis Bouyer: itinerario di una teologia mistica tra dossologia e sofiologia
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Saturday, August 27, 2016
On Liturgical Customaries for Seminaries: An Example of Mutual Enrichment from the Anglican Patrimony by Revd Fr Christopher Smith
I am told that nowadays some seminaries have attempted more precise handbooks of behavior in church and seminary, general rules of life. I have not seen any of them myself. In my day in the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, everything from etiquette at table to liturgical decorum and expectations of clerical dress were all kind of an oral tradition that was passed from superiors to seminarians in the form of peer pressure to conform, rather than in any manual.
Friday, August 26, 2016
Chiesa: Bergoglio Too Has His Nonnegotiable Principles
They are the four postulates with which he continually inspires his governance of the Church, the first of which says that “time is greater than space.” The trouble is that they do not hold up. An erudite Benedictine monk explains why
They are the four postulates with which he continually inspires his governance of the Church, the first of which says that “time is greater than space.” The trouble is that they do not hold up. An erudite Benedictine monk explains why
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
What Would Fr. Bouyer Say in Response?
To the juxtaposition of St. Teresa of Avila and the liturgy:
CWR: Saint Teresa of Jesus and the Search for the Sacred by Fr. Erik Varden, OCSO
Does the Church’s liturgy enable, now, the expression and communication of sacred realities? Is the ‘sacred’ still a meaningful category?
CWR: Saint Teresa of Jesus and the Search for the Sacred by Fr. Erik Varden, OCSO
Does the Church’s liturgy enable, now, the expression and communication of sacred realities? Is the ‘sacred’ still a meaningful category?
Red Flags
DOCAT, “spicy peppercorns” and the Pope’s dream
An interview with Bernhard Meuser, editor of the original German edition of DOCAT.
An interview with Bernhard Meuser, editor of the original German edition of DOCAT.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
St. Sophia Cathedral in Rome
Is there too much lighting for the photo, or do the colors of the mosaics and paintings really have that faded look?
Monday, August 22, 2016
Chiesa: Farewell, Poland. Buttiglione Triumphs in Chicago. And Rodrigo Guerra Counter-replies
They were both scholars of the thought of Karol Wojtyla. But now they are in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried. The former garners the applause of Archbishop Cupich. And the latter duels with his Polish friend
They were both scholars of the thought of Karol Wojtyla. But now they are in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried. The former garners the applause of Archbishop Cupich. And the latter duels with his Polish friend
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Roots of Christianity
Assuming that it did exist, what remains of the pre-Christian Jewish oral (or written) tradition(s) of interpretation and commentary on the Old Testament? Was there something more authoritative or separate from the Oral Torah? How much of the tradition of early Jewish exegesis has been preserved?
Friday, August 19, 2016
Deaconesses and the Dangers of Antiquarianism by Christian Browne
Separation of Seating by Sex at Mass
It seems that, in the early Church, men and women sat apart at Mass, in separate areas of the church building. The practice is noted in the Apostolic Tradition, attributed to Hippolytus of Rome and written around 215, wherein women are instructed to “pray in another place in the church, by themselves, whether faithful women or catechumen women.” Hippolytus also restricts the “kiss of peace” by sex, so that men were prohibited from the exchange of the greeting with women.
This should be of particular interest to the enthusiasts of the Novus Ordo, for one of the grounds for demoting the once untouchable Roman Canon and adding the new Eucharistic Prayers was to recover the “anaphora” prayer ascribed to Hippolytus, now set down as the ubiquitous Eucharistic Prayer II.
In addition, major Church Fathers Saints Augustine, Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom endorsed the separation of the sexes as fostering modesty and as a safeguard against impure thoughts creeping in during Mass. The ancient and enduring nature of the practice is evident from the fact that it was strongly commended in the 1917 Code of Canon Law. “It is desirable that, in harmony with ancient Church order, the women in church be separated from the men.” (Canon 1262, § 1)
Thus, since the separation of the sexes was a practice of the ancient Church, praised Church Fathers, and because many of the foundations of the Novus Ordo are rooted in the attempt to recover these early practices, it would make sense to study segregation by sex along with the study of the revival of the female diaconate.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
I Don't Expect Anything Critical of Pope Francis or Amoris Laetitia
Fr. Z: Pre-Order Pope Benedict’s new book – Last Testament: in his own words
Odd that it's being published by Bloomsbury
Pope Emeritus Benedict’s latest book will be called “Last Testament”
Bloomsbury announces November publication of English version
Odd that it's being published by Bloomsbury
Pope Emeritus Benedict’s latest book will be called “Last Testament”
Bloomsbury announces November publication of English version
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
NCReg: Melkite Eparchy Celebrates 50-Year Milestone of Evangelizing in America by Peter Jesserer Smith
The Eastern Catholic traditions rooted in the ancient Church of Antioch have blossomed in the U.S. since the close of Vatican II.
The Eastern Catholic traditions rooted in the ancient Church of Antioch have blossomed in the U.S. since the close of Vatican II.
One aspect of liturgical renewal that the bishop plans to initiate is an adaption of the parochial Byzantine office from the eighth century, so that Melkite Catholic men and women can gather to pray the Church’s morning and evening prayer with each other. The office currently is geared toward monks, but the new “parochial office” will enable the laity to integrate these prayers in their lives and reap their Church’s rich spiritual tradition through the week.
[Roman] Catholicism: The Pivotal Players
A slick production but it does seem to have a rather limited perspective on Church history. I may be enjoy Chesterton's writing but does he merit inclusion here? Similarly, the place of Michelangelo is debatable...
website
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
A Thought on the Direction of Latin Theology
How many of his theological opinions would have been different if St. Augustine of Hippo had known Greek and had read the scriptures in Greek? (And correspondingly how would have the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas been affected?)
Monday, August 15, 2016
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Insight Scoop: A noteworthy (but little noted) revolution at World Youth Day 2016 -- A Different Kind of World Youth Day
From the Mass programs:
Not sure if you can find any samples of this below:
From the Mass programs:
The overarching aesthetic, though, is a sound specific to Dominicans in France and Poland. You’ll notice several compositions by French priest André Gouzes, OP, in which he hearkens back to Byzantine chant with its circular four-voice harmonic progressions. Several contemporary Polish composers are also represented, who employ a similar aesthetic (sometimes called the “Gouzentine” sound). Most of this music is antiphonal, where a short refrain is repeated several times, interspersed with Scriptural verses. It’s a bit like having multiple Responsorial Psalms packed into a Mass.
Not sure if you can find any samples of this below:
Saturday, August 13, 2016
CWR: Francis and Fundamentalism by Carl E. Olson
Why should we equate Christianity to Islam in terms of its inner dynamic—that is, its core beliefs about God, man, the temporal order, and so forth? Why must we think that Islam and Christianity are equal in terms of moral teachings?
Why should we equate Christianity to Islam in terms of its inner dynamic—that is, its core beliefs about God, man, the temporal order, and so forth? Why must we think that Islam and Christianity are equal in terms of moral teachings?
Friday, August 12, 2016
No Representation of Non-Roman Catholics
"Roman Catholic Identity Conference" would be more appropriate.
Rorate Caeli: Catholic Identity Conference 2016
Rorate Caeli: Catholic Identity Conference 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Of Historical Interest, But Useful for Today?
Latin traditionalists might think so...
NEW: St. Robert Bellarmine's long Catechism in English -- and a Rorate reader discount
Is the Latin original available?
NEW: St. Robert Bellarmine's long Catechism in English -- and a Rorate reader discount
Is the Latin original available?
A Note on Voting
Voting seems to be a materially unjust act, not a formally unjust one for most voters -- they have no control over who can be a candidate. In that respect, the parties and the "system" is at fault. Still, if they do not write in a candidate who they think is most qualified for the office, are they complicit in injustice? Who is an acceptable write-in candidates is determined by the state government, and I don't know if all states share the same rules. I am guessing that they don't. One can ask whether those rules or just or not, or if they place an undue burden on those seeking to exercise their vote in good conscience.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Lecture by David Clayton on September 11
Living Christ: Reclaiming the Church in Our Home and Life -- it will be livestreamed
ICC Workshop on the Prayer Life Described in the Little Oratory Book by David Clayton
A talk from Professor Clayton last year:
ICC Workshop on the Prayer Life Described in the Little Oratory Book by David Clayton
A talk from Professor Clayton last year:
Monday, August 08, 2016
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