Saturday, March 10, 2018
Friday, March 09, 2018
Doesn't the Patriarchate of Rome Have More Pressing Issues?
One would think that the various explanations given by scholars and theologians about the validity of current translations would have been sufficient to give this a rest.
"Pater Noster," No Peace. The Battle Begins Among the Translations
"Pater Noster," No Peace. The Battle Begins Among the Translations
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
CWR: Critics misrepresent Cardinal Sarah’s call for reverence in receiving Holy Communion by Conor Dugan
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades?
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades?
Monday, March 05, 2018
The introversion/extroversion distinction or spectrum has its roots in Jungian psychology. What to make of this sort of personality analysis?
Sunday, March 04, 2018
Saturday, March 03, 2018
Friday, March 02, 2018
Lost Shepherd
CWR: A Papacy of Contradictions by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church.
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church.
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Fr. Alessio Ulisse, SJ
Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: Opponents of Ostpolitik – Part 2: Father Alessio Ulisse (1920-1986) by Roberto de Mattei
Someone should be canvassing for miracles for him too...
Crisis: The Man Who Was “Ante-Pope”
by Julia Meloni
Before his death in 2012, Cardinal Carlo Martini eerily called himself an “ante-pope,” a “precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.” Martini was the leading antagonist to Popes John Paul...
by Julia Meloni
Before his death in 2012, Cardinal Carlo Martini eerily called himself an “ante-pope,” a “precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.” Martini was the leading antagonist to Popes John Paul...
Popesplaining
CWR Dispatch: New CDF document is clear and succinct, but why was it needed? by Christopher R. Altieri
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus.
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Francis Reformation by Dr. Douglas Farrow
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of course it is. We must ask instead whether it is to be a Church of all the beatitudes.
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of course it is. We must ask instead whether it is to be a Church of all the beatitudes.
The Church is Not a Business
And yet George Weigel thinks that it is one, and that a national Church can be turned into mission territory with proper oversight by Rome. Papal maximalism plus a bad model of the Church. Where is Avery Dulles to offer a comment?
Rethinking “mission territory” by George Weigel
Rethinking “mission territory” by George Weigel
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Another Opponent of Ostpolitik
Rorate Caeli: De Mattei: opponents of Ostpolitik: Monsignor Pavol Maria Hnilica (1921-2006)
Will fears of a new ostpolitik, an ostpolitik chiński, prove to be justified?
Will fears of a new ostpolitik, an ostpolitik chiński, prove to be justified?
Friday, February 23, 2018
The Church
That Frank Built Destroyed
Sandro Magister: New Appeal From Fr. Weinandy To the Pope: With This False Mercy the Church Is Destroyed
Catholic World Report: The Four Marks of the Church: The Contemporary Crisis in Ecclesiology
We need to mount a robust defense and clear advocacy of the Church’s four marks, for without such an apology, the Church’s identity – what she truly is – will become disordered, and so will enfeeble her ability to live and to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Comment: Whatever what one thinks of Roman Catholic ecclesiology as explained here, nonetheless one can ask if the crisis affects the whole Church or just the patriarchate of Rome, and whether the essay could still stand as it is written if we take the crisis to be of the patriarchate of Rome only, or if it would have to be written substantially.
Sandro Magister: New Appeal From Fr. Weinandy To the Pope: With This False Mercy the Church Is Destroyed
Catholic World Report: The Four Marks of the Church: The Contemporary Crisis in Ecclesiology
We need to mount a robust defense and clear advocacy of the Church’s four marks, for without such an apology, the Church’s identity – what she truly is – will become disordered, and so will enfeeble her ability to live and to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Comment: Whatever what one thinks of Roman Catholic ecclesiology as explained here, nonetheless one can ask if the crisis affects the whole Church or just the patriarchate of Rome, and whether the essay could still stand as it is written if we take the crisis to be of the patriarchate of Rome only, or if it would have to be written substantially.
Has the Life of Jorge Bergoglio
map on to the history of the Jesuit order after Vatican 2, especially in Ibero-America?
How Bergoglio Is Rewriting His Life. The Years of the "Great Desolation"
How Bergoglio Is Rewriting His Life. The Years of the "Great Desolation"
Thursday, February 22, 2018
God bless Fr. Rutler.
The Mathematical Innovations of Father Antonio Spadaro by Fr. George W. Rutler
Nearly fifty years go, my parish secretary, who was elderly even then, kept the parish accounts using an abacus. I gave her the latest kind of electric adding machine, which [...]
Nearly fifty years go, my parish secretary, who was elderly even then, kept the parish accounts using an abacus. I gave her the latest kind of electric adding machine, which [...]
Too Bad the Full Text of Fr. Aidan Nichol's Lecture for the English Fellowship of Ss Alban and Sergius Isn't Available
Fr Aidan Nichols, and the Amoris laetitia Crisis UPDATED "Fr Aidan reminded his hearers that Vatican I in fact limited the papacy; and surmised 'it may be that the present crisis of the Roman magisterium is providentially intended to call attention to the limits of the papacy [in regard to teaching]'"
Fr Aidan Nichols and the people "who ought to know better" UPDATED "It is not the position of the Roman Catholic Church that a pope is incapable of leading people astray by false teaching as a public doctor. He may be the supreme appeal judge of Christendom ... but that does not make him immune to perpetrating doctrinal howlers. Surprisingly ... this fact appears to be unknown to many who ought to know better."
Aidan Nichols, Amoris laetitia, and Tucho
The Catholic Herald article from August 2017.
Fr Aidan Nichols and the people "who ought to know better" UPDATED "It is not the position of the Roman Catholic Church that a pope is incapable of leading people astray by false teaching as a public doctor. He may be the supreme appeal judge of Christendom ... but that does not make him immune to perpetrating doctrinal howlers. Surprisingly ... this fact appears to be unknown to many who ought to know better."
Aidan Nichols, Amoris laetitia, and Tucho
The Catholic Herald article from August 2017.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Fr. Paul Nadimi Tarazi
Apparently he is not free from controversy in E. Orthodox circles.
website
SVOTS faculty page
news of his retirement
bio
a discussion thread at orthodoxchristianity.net
website
SVOTS faculty page
news of his retirement
bio
a discussion thread at orthodoxchristianity.net
Monday, February 19, 2018
Eastern Christian Books: The Problems with Orthodox Mysticism
Eastern Christian Books: The Problems with Orthodox Mysticism: Tarazi repeatedly decries the "perversion" that theology--East and West, Jewish and Christian--has wrought to the scripturally revealed God, introducing terminology that is not just unhelpful but unscriptural (ousia, physis, etc)
comment: But what of the Ecumenical Councils?
comment: But what of the Ecumenical Councils?
Crisis: Cardinal Cupich Misreads Vatican II on Conscience by Richard A. Spinello
Just a few short weeks after the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke about Amoris Laetitia as a paradigm shift for the Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago [...]
Just a few short weeks after the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke about Amoris Laetitia as a paradigm shift for the Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago [...]
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Pope Paul the Sad to Be Canonized?
The Roman saint-making machine keeps rolling, for political ends.
Rorate Caeli: The Canonization of Vatican II: The case for Pacelli, revisited
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Crisis: Cardinal Cupich’s Modernist View of the Family by R. Jared Staudt
The accusation of modernism gets thrown around a lot, especially in traditional circles. As a descriptor of heresy, modernism is a vague term. Modernism can refer to a movement of
The accusation of modernism gets thrown around a lot, especially in traditional circles. As a descriptor of heresy, modernism is a vague term. Modernism can refer to a movement of
Friday, February 16, 2018
More on Cardinal Cupich
On Cardinal Cupich’s problematic, convenient conscience by Carl E. Olson
Conscience is not the ground of moral authority; nor is it the final judge when it comes to what is actually moral and true....
Related:
Those Cupich seminars: Why now? by Christopher R. Altieri
Conscience is not the ground of moral authority; nor is it the final judge when it comes to what is actually moral and true....
Related:
Those Cupich seminars: Why now? by Christopher R. Altieri
An Overhaul of the Aristotelian Sciences Is Needed?
Do the categories need to be reconsidered in a way going beyond the phenomenologists (e.g. William Marra)? What about the predicaments? Are the predicaments and attributes/properties confusing to the neophyte to Aristotelian philosophy? While the categories seem to be integral of the Metaphysics, are they so important to the Physics? Can one limit a discussion of change, generation, and corrruption to substance and accident? No, Aristotle does mention alteration of quality, quantity, and place. Out of those three, it seems that the category of quality is the one that may need to be revised in light of a better understanding of the natural world, even if it itself is a rather broad category that includes both color and thought?
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Russell Shaw on Germain Grisez
CWR Dispatch: The quiet, wide-ranging influence of Germain Grisez by Russell Shaw
The late moral theologian, who died on February 1st at the age of 88, had a profound impact on moral theology over the past sixty […]
The late moral theologian, who died on February 1st at the age of 88, had a profound impact on moral theology over the past sixty […]
Couldn't Be Bothered
So the Melkite had to concelebrate with the bishop of Rome in the Roman rite. Understandable. But the bishop of Rome couldn't celebrate Mass ad orientem just this once out of respect for Eastern sensibility?
CNA: Pope of Rome, Melkite Patriarch concelebrate mass
CNA: Pope of Rome, Melkite Patriarch concelebrate mass
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Fr. Rutler on Cardinal Cupich
Crisis Magazine: The Clarity of Cardinal Cupich by Fr. George W. Rutler
Does Fr. Rutler have to worry about Cardinal Dolan and the New York chancery?
Does Fr. Rutler have to worry about Cardinal Dolan and the New York chancery?
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
The Spirit of AL
CWR Dispatch: “The Greatest Sin is losing the sense of Sin” by Eduardo Echeverria
Related: CWR/CNA: Cardinal Cupich launches “Amoris Laetitia” seminars for US bishops
Related: CWR/CNA: Cardinal Cupich launches “Amoris Laetitia” seminars for US bishops
Monday, February 12, 2018
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Friday, February 09, 2018
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Echeverria on the Douthat-Faggioli Debate
CWR: Douthat-Faggioli debate highlights two key, contested issues of Francis’ pontificate by Eduardo Echeverria
Two major issues—the meaning and significance of Vatican II and the doctrinal implications of AL’s moral logic of pastoral reasoning—will continue to present the Church with challenges until such time as the Magisterium makes clear where the Church is headed.
Two major issues—the meaning and significance of Vatican II and the doctrinal implications of AL’s moral logic of pastoral reasoning—will continue to present the Church with challenges until such time as the Magisterium makes clear where the Church is headed.
Monday, February 05, 2018
Crisis Magazine: Germain Grisez’s Defense of Orthodox Faith by John M. Grondelski
Germain Gabriel Grisez, 88, died February 1, 2018. Philosophy and Catholic theology in the United States lost a giant in his passing. After Karol Wojtyła, I probably owe my greatest [...]
Germain Gabriel Grisez, 88, died February 1, 2018. Philosophy and Catholic theology in the United States lost a giant in his passing. After Karol Wojtyła, I probably owe my greatest [...]
Sunday, February 04, 2018
Germain Grisez Has Passed
Eternal memory.
In Memoriam: Germain Grisez, Great Defender of Humanae Vitae (1929-2018) by Matthew E. Bunson
The Christian ethics professor, called ‘a towering figure in contemporary Catholic thinking about morality,’ died Feb. 1 at the age of 88.
In Memoriam: Germain Grisez, Great Defender of Humanae Vitae (1929-2018) by Matthew E. Bunson
The Christian ethics professor, called ‘a towering figure in contemporary Catholic thinking about morality,’ died Feb. 1 at the age of 88.
Saturday, February 03, 2018
CNA: Cardinal Marx endorses blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples
CWR: Cardinal Marx openly promotes false news about blessings and “homosexual unions” by Carl E. Olson
Will Pope Francis correct the German Cardinal, who has stated that Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples and says “we have no sets of rules”?
CWR: Cardinal Marx openly promotes false news about blessings and “homosexual unions” by Carl E. Olson
Will Pope Francis correct the German Cardinal, who has stated that Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples and says “we have no sets of rules”?
Friday, February 02, 2018
Orthochristian: “WE CANNOT RE-CHRISTIANIZE EUROPE BY JOINT RESOLUTIONS ONLY”
An English Orthodox priest on the UK, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy
Sergei Mudrov, Archpriest Gregory Hallam
An English Orthodox priest on the UK, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy
Sergei Mudrov, Archpriest Gregory Hallam
Thursday, February 01, 2018
If Excommunication Is Not a Remedy, Then What Is?
What ecclesial punishment exists for the senators who voted against the bill to outlaw abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy?
CWR Dispatch: The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication by Edward N. Peters
CWR Dispatch: The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication by Edward N. Peters
Preparing for the Great Fast
CWR: “Exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation”: On Handel and preparing for Lent in the East by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Given that our Lord and His Apostles and Evangelists transmitted very little about political life and political arrangements (beyond the importance of obedience), would it be erroneous to conclude that political life is not important? Yes. It would also be erroneous to think that Catholic Social Teaching is not subject to change or correction, as its moral theology is only as good as the one doing it.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Psychological Impediments to Marriage
What would be considered as such in the Byzantine canons?
In the west there is a consideration of factors that would eliminate consent or voluntariness. But what of broader psychological impediments to contracting marriage, i.e. moral or spiritual impediments?
And deception is not the same as the lack of good judgment on the part of the person who doesn't really know the other person.
Is lack of moral maturity (which is different from emotional maturity but may include it?) sufficient to nullify the marriage? If one of the parties is selfish or narcissistic and cannot make a real commitment despite a verbal willingness to state that intent, can that party truly marry? Or can the law only limit itself to cases in which one deliberately lies about making a permanent and stable commitment to be with the other person?
What of other personality disorders?
How would one prove that a party never had the properly intentionality with respect to marriage? The mere fact that the party left the marriage? But someone could just change his mind and break his vow. It seems to me that it is psychologically possible for someone to merely mouth the vow without intending it; saying the words in order to attain some goal other than a true marriage. Would that be a conscious lie? Perhaps.
And what if the parties are psychologically or morally unable to fulfill the roles in marriage; i.e. the male is unable to lead and care for the other, or the female is unable to follow/obey and care for the other?
In the west there is a consideration of factors that would eliminate consent or voluntariness. But what of broader psychological impediments to contracting marriage, i.e. moral or spiritual impediments?
And deception is not the same as the lack of good judgment on the part of the person who doesn't really know the other person.
Is lack of moral maturity (which is different from emotional maturity but may include it?) sufficient to nullify the marriage? If one of the parties is selfish or narcissistic and cannot make a real commitment despite a verbal willingness to state that intent, can that party truly marry? Or can the law only limit itself to cases in which one deliberately lies about making a permanent and stable commitment to be with the other person?
What of other personality disorders?
How would one prove that a party never had the properly intentionality with respect to marriage? The mere fact that the party left the marriage? But someone could just change his mind and break his vow. It seems to me that it is psychologically possible for someone to merely mouth the vow without intending it; saying the words in order to attain some goal other than a true marriage. Would that be a conscious lie? Perhaps.
And what if the parties are psychologically or morally unable to fulfill the roles in marriage; i.e. the male is unable to lead and care for the other, or the female is unable to follow/obey and care for the other?
Monday, January 29, 2018
Latin Sacramental Theology
Were there any alternative explanations by the schoolmen for the Real Presence in the Sacred Species, other than that offered by St. Thomas? Or was his the "standard" explanation?
Is it possible to formulate an explanation of the Real Presence without relying on Aristotle's metaphysics, and at the same time acknowledging that the Sacred Species is a sign (sacramentum) and a symbol, but not a symbol that refers to something else completely apart from itself? The Sacred Species conveys or signifies the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, localizes and realizes this Presence. Can the Real Presence be explained through participation? It is more than the causal presence of Christ in the natural matter or artifact of bread, nor is it the accidental conjunction of two different things.
Can the Real Presence be explained by other than an analogue to the Hypostatic Union?
It does not seem that if bread is not a substantial unity but an accidental unity that this would pose a problem for a "Aristotelian" explanation -- we would hold that the Real Presence is in all of the parts of bread which are substances.
Is it possible to formulate an explanation of the Real Presence without relying on Aristotle's metaphysics, and at the same time acknowledging that the Sacred Species is a sign (sacramentum) and a symbol, but not a symbol that refers to something else completely apart from itself? The Sacred Species conveys or signifies the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, localizes and realizes this Presence. Can the Real Presence be explained through participation? It is more than the causal presence of Christ in the natural matter or artifact of bread, nor is it the accidental conjunction of two different things.
Can the Real Presence be explained by other than an analogue to the Hypostatic Union?
It does not seem that if bread is not a substantial unity but an accidental unity that this would pose a problem for a "Aristotelian" explanation -- we would hold that the Real Presence is in all of the parts of bread which are substances.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Rorate Caeli: The Franciscans of the Immaculate: A courageous voice speaks out by Father Paolo M. Siano
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
CWR Dispatch: The East, the West, and Simon Leys by Gerald J. Russello
A new biography and a new collection of essays provide details into the fascinating life and wide-ranging thought of author Simon Leys, who may have been the last great Catholic man of letters.
A new biography and a new collection of essays provide details into the fascinating life and wide-ranging thought of author Simon Leys, who may have been the last great Catholic man of letters.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
What does the pope mean by casuistry?
CWR: The Pope’s misuse of “calumny” distracts from deeper, more troubling questions by Christopher R. Altieri
The problem with Pope Francis’ defense of Bishop Juan Barros is not just that Francis has a poor grasp of technical legal terminology or that he misuses certain words, but that he thinks he knows better and refuses to listen to the people who do.
The problem with Pope Francis’ defense of Bishop Juan Barros is not just that Francis has a poor grasp of technical legal terminology or that he misuses certain words, but that he thinks he knows better and refuses to listen to the people who do.
This would not be the first time Pope Francis’ lexical idiosyncrasies were cause for confusion. I still have not met anyone trained in the sacred sciences who can tell me what Francis means when he speaks of “casuistry” – or “abstract casuistry” – though it is clear he does not mean what is generally meant by the term, i.e. the resolution of moral problems by investigation into the specifics of the case and careful application of the general principles of moral science to the specific case, from within the specifics of the case, themselves.
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