CWR: Martin Luther's Revolt: A Psychological Examination By Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Several of the key moves in Luther’s life were made as a rebellious answer to the authority he encountered at the time, including entering the monastery and founding his own church.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
One Day Late
I that the story of Holy Demetrios and Holy Nestor is remarkable in so far as it is like David versus Goliath; God uses the small to overthrow the proud and powerful, and in this case even to kill of the persecutor. It would seem contrary to an interpretation of Christianity as advocating absolute pacifism. (Unless someone wants to claim that Holy Nestor went too far and went against the will of God, though he was reconciled in time to die a martyr's death.)
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Franciscan Antinomianism
Lecturing Roman Catholics once again...
Pope Francis: Rigid People Are Sick by Edward Pentin
A person who is rigid in many cases conceals a "double life", lacks the freedom of God's children and needs the Lord's help, Pope says in morning homily.
Pope Francis: Rigid People Are Sick by Edward Pentin
A person who is rigid in many cases conceals a "double life", lacks the freedom of God's children and needs the Lord's help, Pope says in morning homily.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
What sort of separation between the nave and the sanctuary?
What is the nature of the separation? What would Fr. Schmemann say?
Iconostasis, Rood Screen, Communion Rail...or Shag-Pile Carpeted Step? by David Clayton
Iconostasis, Rood Screen, Communion Rail...or Shag-Pile Carpeted Step? by David Clayton
Rorate Caeli: "Reverence Is Not Enough: On the Importance of Tradition" -- Dr. Kwasniewski's Lecture at Strahov Abbey in Prague
From footnote 8:
Is this really true of Jungmann?
From footnote 8:
As it happens, the theorists of the Novus Ordo, above all Josef Jungmann, S.J., held two false theories: the Corruption Theory (that at some undefinable point in the early Middle Ages the liturgy began to depart from its pristine ancient condition and suffer corruption, a process that only worsened over the centuries) and the Pastoral Theory (that liturgy must be adapted to the mentality and condition of each age, and that modern man, being exceptionally different from his forbears, needs a radically different liturgy). The former has as a corollary antiquarianism or archaeologism, while the latter has as its corollary modernization. Both theories are false and must be rejected, and their poisons must be purged from the Mystical Body.
Is this really true of Jungmann?
Insight Scoop: New: "The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China" by Vincent Cronin
Monday, October 24, 2016
Who Can Block the Holy Spirit?
I read Matthew Levering's Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Regarding the Holy Spirit’s unitive mission in the Church, Levering responds to Kendall Soulen, who focuses on relationship between the Holy Spirit and multiplicity or diversity, by emphasizing the Holy Spirit’s promotion of unity in truth and unity in charity, the bond that unites the Church. I was reminded of the Kontakion hymn in the Byzantine rite for the feast of Pentecost, which contrasts God’s dispersal of mankind at Babel with His calling of all to become His people at Pentecost. God’s undoing of the tower Babel is not through the Church having a single, uniform language and culture, but through the unifying of diverse peoples with their own Christianized languages and cultures. But as we see in the history of the estrangement between Catholics and Orthodox, and the early separation of the Oriental, or Non-Chalcedonian, Orthodox churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, differences in languages or terminology (as mentioned above in the dispute over the Filioque), exacerbated by political issues, nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and other factors, have been significant barriers to agreement and communion. But the greatest cause of the failure of the apostolic churches to reach full communion in the past may have been insufficient charity (and humility). In relation to the Holy Spirit’s mission of unity, it seems to me that the zeal of bishops to preserve the unity of faith may have surpassed their zeal for charity. In this respect, the tasks of the Third and Fourth Ecumenical Councils remain incomplete (though the various apostolic churches have in the last half-century issued statements with other churches that they do not really disagree on the important issues of Christology). All must examine their conscience or the churches will continue to be chastised. The Holy Spirit is the force behind healing and reconciliation; but can it even be said that in defense of Bouyer's thesis in The Church of God, that the Holy Spirit has never failed to preserve those who have no fault in the separation in the unity of faith and charity, even though some of their bishops may have thought otherwise and excluded each other from communion?
Anamnesis, Not Amnesia: The 'Healing Memories' and the Problem of 'Uniatism' by Father Robert Taft, S.J.
Ecumenism and healing of memories; ecclesiological issues?
Anamnesis, Not Amnesia: The 'Healing Memories' and the Problem of 'Uniatism' by Father Robert Taft, S.J.
Ecumenism and healing of memories; ecclesiological issues?
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
An International Conference on Vocations
for the Patriarchate of Rome. Like it'll help with the crisis.
Related:
Related:
Christendom College Seeks to Build a New Chapel
Their current recruitment video: Dare to be Great? Reminds me of Donald Trump and "Make America Great Again."
Christendom College launches a new capital campaign.
They want to build a Gothic-style chapel even though none of the other buildings are in that style. And I personally think that overall, Gothic is not that attractive, though some Gothic temples here and there are beautiful, especially if they are made primarily out of wood. The first chapel may be simple, but I think it fits the campus better and is more American in appearance ("colonial" style?). What will the locals think of the temple? A foreign intrusion into their area? (Did they even bother to consult the locals for the design?)
They plan to convert the current chapel into a cultural center.
What alternative Latin architectural style might be suitable for the campus? Did they choose Gothic because it is associated with the medieval period? Modified colonial, with some Renaissance influence, something to complement the library?
There are different national styles of Byzantine architecture, but do we see as much change in these styles over time? Is Byzantine architecture more likely to be stable and have the semblance of "timelessness"?
Related:
O Ancient Beauty Ever New: Thinking about Sacramental Architecture by Steven Shloeder, Ph.D.
How different would some of those designs be if the architects did not have pews in mind when they created their designs?
Restoring Sacred Architecture to a Higher Plane by TRENT BEATTIE
William Heyer works to draw faith communities heavenward.
Christendom College launches a new capital campaign.
They want to build a Gothic-style chapel even though none of the other buildings are in that style. And I personally think that overall, Gothic is not that attractive, though some Gothic temples here and there are beautiful, especially if they are made primarily out of wood. The first chapel may be simple, but I think it fits the campus better and is more American in appearance ("colonial" style?). What will the locals think of the temple? A foreign intrusion into their area? (Did they even bother to consult the locals for the design?)
They plan to convert the current chapel into a cultural center.
What alternative Latin architectural style might be suitable for the campus? Did they choose Gothic because it is associated with the medieval period? Modified colonial, with some Renaissance influence, something to complement the library?
There are different national styles of Byzantine architecture, but do we see as much change in these styles over time? Is Byzantine architecture more likely to be stable and have the semblance of "timelessness"?
Related:
O Ancient Beauty Ever New: Thinking about Sacramental Architecture by Steven Shloeder, Ph.D.
How different would some of those designs be if the architects did not have pews in mind when they created their designs?
Restoring Sacred Architecture to a Higher Plane by TRENT BEATTIE
William Heyer works to draw faith communities heavenward.
Friday, October 21, 2016
One Would Expect More from the Orthodox as Well
Seems that many Orthodox prelates can't help but embed themselves with American politicians, much like their Catholic counterparts. But at least the Russian-American Orthodox do not do this?
Byz, TX: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo receives Pat. Athenagoras award
Byz, TX: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo receives Pat. Athenagoras award
Thursday, October 20, 2016
CWR Dispatch: Taking a page from the Proportionalist Playbook? Edward N. Peters
A minister’s decision about giving holy Communion to an individual is not controlled by the recipient’s subjective conscience, well-formed or otherwise.
A minister’s decision about giving holy Communion to an individual is not controlled by the recipient’s subjective conscience, well-formed or otherwise.
CWR Dispatch: William Byrd and the beckoning of beauty by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Style and class have been banished from most Catholic sanctuaries in our land – and we are all the poorer for it. The transient, the ephemeral, the cheap have replaced the beautiful, the uplifting, the inspiring.
Style and class have been banished from most Catholic sanctuaries in our land – and we are all the poorer for it. The transient, the ephemeral, the cheap have replaced the beautiful, the uplifting, the inspiring.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Chiesa: So Many Errors, Your Holiness. And Some Marked With Red by Sandro Magister
Francis likes his talk freewheeling, with all the risks that go with it. Here is a review of his latest blunders, a dozen in four months. The most sensational with China
Francis likes his talk freewheeling, with all the risks that go with it. Here is a review of his latest blunders, a dozen in four months. The most sensational with China
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP on the Launch of the Ukrainian Catholic Catechism in Australia
The Catholic Weekly: Two lungs breathe as one as Ukrainian Catholic catechism launched in Sydney by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
I was thinking about the Inquisition and the Dominicans and how they are portrayed in the movie version of The Name of the Rose, which while rooted in historical circumstances is anti-Catholic and hence not so historically accurate (especially with its depiction of the Dominicans?). I know someone who admires his writing style, if not necessarily his message. (I don't think he has ever blogged about that aspect of Eco's writing.) If only Eco had remained Catholic and written a novel that revealed the historical truth about the medieval Church; I agree with De Mattei that Eco should have put his talents to better use, in service of God and the Church. (Though De Mattei's genealogy in that article of nominalism, "a decadent and deformed interpretation of Thomist doctrine" is suspect.) Eco would probably have access to the scholarship done on the medieval Latin churches; even now we have historians like Fr. Augustine Thompson writing about that period. But if he had an agenda, he would have ignored that scholarship regardless.
How would a historical novel about the medieval Latin churches be different, if written from the perspective of someone like Fr. Louis Bouyer regarding the development of Latin spirituality?
How would a historical novel about the medieval Latin churches be different, if written from the perspective of someone like Fr. Louis Bouyer regarding the development of Latin spirituality?
Monday, October 17, 2016
Face of a Dying Order
They met have some vocations from third world countries (should we ask about the level of catechesis there?), but there is no vitality in the order.
The Remnant: Fighting the Papal Fetish to Win Back the Papacy by John Rao
A little too negative and anti-American?
I wish that I could say that I am as certain that we are “awakened” to what we positively need to know for the future of the Social Kingship of Christ as I am that we are correct in fighting that papal fetish that seeks to block desperately needed criticism of the current pontificate. Quite frankly, I think that there is still too much anti-intellectualism, too much John Locke, too much Adam Smith, too much American parochialism, too much obsession with enemies now dead and buried, and too much hope for salvation from some new Constantine focused on matters of secondary importance to recognize what the papal fetish is really blocking knowledge of in 2016. And that is the fact that the willful Nominalism of the later Middle Ages, destructive of all categories of knowledge, the willful Lutheranism of the sixteenth century, destructive of all legitimate social authority, and the willful, freedom-obsessed, Anglo-American and Continental Liberalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, destructive of all restraints on individual madness, with all of the contradictory, capitalist, statist, and libertine consequences that emerge therefrom, have now wormed their way into the teachings and actions of the legitimate successor of St. Peter.
A little too negative and anti-American?
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Lutherans Won't Quit
Edit. Statue of Martin Luther at the Vatican
Unbelievable, if true -- what proof is there that Martin Luther was holy? Why a statue to honor him? Would this be scandalous to the Orthodox?
Chiesa: In Rome Yes, In Florence No. Here’s How “Amoris Laetitia” Is Dividing the Church
In the pope’s diocese, the divorced and remarried can receive communion, in other Italian dioceses no. Because every bishop is deciding as he wishes. A manual by Cardinal Antonelli for confessors who want to remain faithful to perennial doctrine
In the pope’s diocese, the divorced and remarried can receive communion, in other Italian dioceses no. Because every bishop is deciding as he wishes. A manual by Cardinal Antonelli for confessors who want to remain faithful to perennial doctrine
Friday, October 14, 2016
Are Such Gestures Necessary for Ecumenism?
If they were serious about reconciliation, could something else be done?
This may seem too much like one prelate scratching the back of another, for the same in return....
This may seem too much like one prelate scratching the back of another, for the same in return....
Thursday, October 13, 2016
First Things: The End of Christendom by Eamon Duffy
A review of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
Yale News
A review of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
Yale News
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
CWR Dispatch: A fiercely intellectual book on the moral complexities of sex by Fiorella Nash
A review of Anthony McCarthy's "Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and their Nature and Meaning"
A review of Anthony McCarthy's "Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and their Nature and Meaning"
Marian Consecration
Are Marian Consecrations, whether the version of St. Louis of Montfort or someone else, have taken a hold in the Latin West if the West had had a better liturgical spirituality and liturgical theology? Shouldn't our consecration to God the Father, initiated through Baptism which makes us adopted sons, and repeated in every Eucharist, be sufficient? What about analogues in the East?
wiki
Total Consecration: Consecration Explained
Consecration Prayer to Mary
wiki
Total Consecration: Consecration Explained
Consecration Prayer to Mary
Monday, October 10, 2016
The Island
Ss. Cyril and Athanasius Orthodox Institute: Film ‘The Island’ now available on-line, with themes relating to studies in spirituality and repentance
Sunday, October 09, 2016
Shemà Israel - Cammino Neocatecumenale
Given what I posted on Saturday... I had to post this, which I found last week. A bit odd... reminds me of 60s guitar Mass music.
The man himself:
What a traditional Jew be scandalized by this?
How long was the Shema Israel retained by the early Christians as a part of their liturgical prayer? (I assume that it was part of Jewish daily liturgical prayer at the coming of Christ.) Why wasn't it kept? Because the Torah was replaced with Christ?
The man himself:
What a traditional Jew be scandalized by this?
How long was the Shema Israel retained by the early Christians as a part of their liturgical prayer? (I assume that it was part of Jewish daily liturgical prayer at the coming of Christ.) Why wasn't it kept? Because the Torah was replaced with Christ?
On the Tree of the Cross
Matthew Baker, Seraphim Danckaert, and Nicholas Marinides, eds., -- Jordanville: Holy Trinity Publications
Saturday, October 08, 2016
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