Friday, February 15, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Taking the Middle Road
Francis. But would he let Msgr. Marini have more say in what is to be done at papal liturgies? There will be no changes in how Francis celebrates daily mass at CSM.
CNA: Liturgy is not ‘styles, recipes, trends,’ pope tells Divine Worship congregation
CNA: Liturgy is not ‘styles, recipes, trends,’ pope tells Divine Worship congregation
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
A Dissertation on Gennadios Scholarios
Fordham University: A Greek Thomist: Providence in Gennadios Scholarios
by Matthew Christopher Briel, Fordham University
by Matthew Christopher Briel, Fordham University
More on Newman
CWR: Newman’s Canonization: A Summons to Truth by Edward Short
Once the news came out today that John Henry Newman (1801-90) would soon be made a saint, after the Vatican announced that the pope had formally approved a second miracle attributed to the great convert’s [...]
Once the news came out today that John Henry Newman (1801-90) would soon be made a saint, after the Vatican announced that the pope had formally approved a second miracle attributed to the great convert’s [...]
St. John Henry Newman?
CNA: Pope Francis approves canonization of John Henry Newman
As much as I like Newman, I'd be content with him remaining a Blessed until a local cult developed, rather than having another declaration from the modern Roman saint-making machine.
As much as I like Newman, I'd be content with him remaining a Blessed until a local cult developed, rather than having another declaration from the modern Roman saint-making machine.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Traditionalist Latin Liturgical Theology
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What notion of sacrifice?
What is needed, rather, is to see the Mass through the lens of the Office. We need to see the Mass as a sweet-smelling sacrifice of praise offered up in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, thanking God for His great glory, adoring, placating, supplicating Him. Only after that does it make sense to see it as a banquet to which we are invited. We are invited to a sacrifice of which we may then partake if we are properly disposed; we reap spiritual fruit in proportion to how well we have been prepared by the very liturgical action in which we have participated.
What notion of gift?
The Mass is not a utilitarian process designed to maximize the efficient delivery of goods. The Mass is not, as such, a communion service. It is a complex ceremony of repentance, adoration, petition, and thanksgiving, with a sacramental sacrifice at its core. It was given to us by our Lord and His Church as the highest form of prayer, which prepares for, culminates in, and gives thanks for the gift of His Most Holy Body and Blood. It does not begin and end with that gift.
Throw in some mystical bride spirituality, too, which admittedly can be found in some of the Eastern fathers like Origen and St. Maximos.
Think of it this way: If you were Mary of Bethany, sitting at the feet of Jesus and soaking in His words, would you want to sit there quietly, for quite some time, preparing yourself deeply for the spiritual marriage with Him — “the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared herself” (Rev 19:7) — or would you want to listen for a few minutes, jump up, give Him a hug and a kiss, and be off to the next thing?
Mass is a service of prayer:
In short: the Mass is not just about communion. It is a many-sided service of prayerBut you don't need to understand it to pray it, because "Mystery" is important too. Or, just use a bilingual missal!
Let us consider this fact. It would have been a lot “simpler” if Jesus had remained among us under His natural appearances until the end of time. He surely could have done that; the Ascension was not necessary, in the strict logical sense of necessity.
What does 'logical' necessity have to do with practical reason? It was 'morally' necessary, means to end. (John 16:7)
Monday, February 11, 2019
Ethiopian and Assyrian Ecclesiologies of the First Millenium
What do they have to say about the place of St. Peter among the apostles and the relation of this datum to the bishop of Rome? Anything?
Rod Dreher: The Age Of Antichrist by ROD DREHER
When the papacy, the second principle of Latin ecclesiology seems like it is about to fail as a principle because of a bad pope, Latins declare that we are in the end times. Maybe they should just reconsider their ecclesiology and how rooted it is in Tradition.
Rod Dreher: The Age Of Antichrist by ROD DREHER
When the papacy, the second principle of Latin ecclesiology seems like it is about to fail as a principle because of a bad pope, Latins declare that we are in the end times. Maybe they should just reconsider their ecclesiology and how rooted it is in Tradition.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Saturday, February 09, 2019
A Manifesto of Faith by Cardinal Müller
CWR Dispatch/CNA: Cardinal Müller delivers ‘manifesto’ on Catholic teaching
“Today, many Christians are no longer even aware of the basic teachings of the Faith, so there is a growing danger of missing the path to eternal life.”
“Today, many Christians are no longer even aware of the basic teachings of the Faith, so there is a growing danger of missing the path to eternal life.”
Good for Bishop Schneider.
CWR: The Gift of Filial Adoption by Bishop Athanasius Schneider
The Christian Faith is the only valid and the only God-willed religion.
A response to Pope Francis? That document here.
The Christian Faith is the only valid and the only God-willed religion.
A response to Pope Francis? That document here.
Friday, February 08, 2019
A Latin Ecclesiology
Crisis Magazine: Why Vatican II’s Definition of Church Makes Sense by CASEY CHALK
If that explains subsistit in, there is still the question of what this means for non-Catholics. Hipp’s position is that these communities possess “parts or properties or actions of the Catholic Church,” that whatever salvific power they possess flow from their relative communion with the Catholic Church, that they possess “nothing distinctive” per se in reference to “salvific mediatory value.” In effect, whatever of Christ these communities retain, it is solely through Catholicism. Moreover, because they are not the Catholic Church, they necessarily have defects. Among these include ecclesial properties, sacraments, the Petrine office, an integral profession of faith, and unity. Does calling these communities deficient undermine ecumenical dialogue? By no means! Rather, it allows interlocutors to clarify and take seriously theological and ecclesial differences, while reciprocating an acknowledgement of others’ real status as Christians.
Thursday, February 07, 2019
The Fall of Rome
CNA/NCReg: St. Paul VI’s feast to be celebrated May 29
I'll reserve that date to commemorate the fall of Constantinople.
Fr. Z: WDTPRS: The new Latin Collect for Paul VI – a key phrase hunted up
I'll reserve that date to commemorate the fall of Constantinople.
Fr. Z: WDTPRS: The new Latin Collect for Paul VI – a key phrase hunted up
Keep Thy Mind in Hell
OrthoChristian: ON THE WORD TO ST. SILOUAN, “KEEP THY MIND IN HELL AND DESPAIR NOT” by Jesse Dominick
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
The Latest Installment in Milbank's Series
Church Life: Maritain’s Postwar Compromise of Natural Law by John Milbank
Monday, February 04, 2019
Is a Middle Position Possible?
Understanding vs. contemplation, hearing and active particiption versus the other senses... etc.
The Liturgy Is for (Little) Kids by Timothy P. O’Malley
CWR: Revisiting “The Spirit of the Liturgy” by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
The Liturgy Is for (Little) Kids by Timothy P. O’Malley
CWR: Revisiting “The Spirit of the Liturgy” by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Sunday, February 03, 2019
Clericalism and Synodality? Not the Issues.
CWR: Pope Francis misses the mark in focusing on clericalism and synodality by Christopher R. Altieri
A recent essay by papal biographer Austen Ivereigh about Pope Francis’ approach to abuse crisis fails to recognize the pressing need to start with institutional reform.
A recent essay by papal biographer Austen Ivereigh about Pope Francis’ approach to abuse crisis fails to recognize the pressing need to start with institutional reform.
Pius X vs. Modernism
from Fr. John Perricone - Imaginative Conservative, originally published in Crisis.
Saturday, February 02, 2019
Latins Gonna Latin
From Analysis from Fr. Louis Bouyer’s 1978 essay that may apply today, an excerpt of a lecture given by the then newly-elected superior general of the FSSP:
I shouldn't be shocked that he would hold this position but I hadn't thought about the FSSP for some time.
“There is no possibility to get to Heaven without being united to the Pope,” said Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, the recently-elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right that celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass.
I shouldn't be shocked that he would hold this position but I hadn't thought about the FSSP for some time.
St. Neilos of Rossano
Crux: Interview with Ines Angeli and Fr. Douglas Milewski https://cruxnow.com/interviews/2019/01/30/life-of-greek-saint-in-italy-an-example-of-ecumenism-for-today/
Friday, February 01, 2019
A New Persoal Line of Inquiry
How is neo-Platonism to be distinguished from Aristotelianism?
Creation and Participation: The Metaphysical Structure of the World-God Relation in Aquinas by Byron Stefan Hagan
"The Transcendentality of Ens-Esse and the Ground of Metaphysics" by Cornelio Fabro
International Philosophical Quarterly 6 (3):389-427 (1966)
"The Intensive Hermeneutics of Thomistic Philosophy: The Notion of Participation"
Cornelio Fabro and B. M. Bonansea
The Review of Metaphysics
Vol. 27, No. 3, A Commemorative Issue. Thomas Aquinas, 1224-1274 (Mar., 1974), pp. 449-491
"Cornelio Fabro on the Distinction and Composition of Essence and Esse in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas" by John F. Wippel
Review of Metaphysics 68 (3):573-592 (2015)
"Was St. Thomas Aquinas a Platonist?" by Luis Cortest
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
The Catholic University of America Press
Volume 52, Number 2, April 1988
pp. 209-219
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
IVE website for Cornelio Fabro
Is CornelioFabro.org working properly?
Creation and Participation: The Metaphysical Structure of the World-God Relation in Aquinas by Byron Stefan Hagan
"The Transcendentality of Ens-Esse and the Ground of Metaphysics" by Cornelio Fabro
International Philosophical Quarterly 6 (3):389-427 (1966)
"The Intensive Hermeneutics of Thomistic Philosophy: The Notion of Participation"
Cornelio Fabro and B. M. Bonansea
The Review of Metaphysics
Vol. 27, No. 3, A Commemorative Issue. Thomas Aquinas, 1224-1274 (Mar., 1974), pp. 449-491
"Cornelio Fabro on the Distinction and Composition of Essence and Esse in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas" by John F. Wippel
Review of Metaphysics 68 (3):573-592 (2015)
"Was St. Thomas Aquinas a Platonist?" by Luis Cortest
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
The Catholic University of America Press
Volume 52, Number 2, April 1988
pp. 209-219
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
IVE website for Cornelio Fabro
Is CornelioFabro.org working properly?
Sacrifice in Classical Protestantism?
First Things: AFTER THE END OF SACRIFICE
February 1, 2019 / by Peter J. Leithart
Protestants can offer a fundamental challenge to liberal order only insofar as we retain, and enhance, the sacrificial dimension of classical Protestantism.
February 1, 2019 / by Peter J. Leithart
Protestants can offer a fundamental challenge to liberal order only insofar as we retain, and enhance, the sacrificial dimension of classical Protestantism.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
How can we get more lay involvement?
CWR: The role of the laity and the sex scandal by Russell Shaw
As things stand, when it comes to decision-making, the laity are routinely excluded from even a consultative role.
As things stand, when it comes to decision-making, the laity are routinely excluded from even a consultative role.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
A Career, Not a Vocation
AmConMag: The Beasts That Walk Among High Priests by DENNIS L. WEISMAN
With their job security and higher ideals, the church and academia are both magnets for false prophets.
With their job security and higher ideals, the church and academia are both magnets for false prophets.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Conor Dugan Reviews Yves Chrion's Bugnini Book
Lament for the Liturgy by Conor Dugan
Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy by Yves Chiron is indispensable both for its historical depth and breadth and also for understanding how we received the only liturgy that most Roman Catholics have ever experienced.
Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy by Yves Chiron is indispensable both for its historical depth and breadth and also for understanding how we received the only liturgy that most Roman Catholics have ever experienced.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
The Next Two Parts of John Milbank's Series
The History of Natural Right by John Milbank
Given this revisionary account of the development of natural law (click for previous instalment in this series) in western intellectual history, how does it relate to the story of...
Burke’s Romantic Restoration of Natural Law by John Milbank
Given this revisionary account of the development of natural law (click for previous instalment in this series) in western intellectual history, how does it relate to the story of...
Burke’s Romantic Restoration of Natural Law by John Milbank
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Ancient Faith Publishing Sale
All Ancient Faith Publishing books are 10% off! Combine with the free shipping coupon code WINTERSHIP (orders over $75) for the best deal of the season!
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Friday, January 25, 2019
The World Needs Christ
Not more academese, and "Modernity" is an invention of the elites, not out of whole cloth but close. Would the pioneers of "modernity" fall somewhere on the spectrum? Where would they fall on the social hierarchy?
Church Life: Renewing Nouvelle Théologie by Cyril O’Regan
Forgetfulness of God is a serious problem - without memory of God we cannot bless Him and thank Him for His manifold benefits. Is this forgetfulness, then, just an intellectual mistake, or is it one caused by sin? If the Latin churches had not first been internally weakened, and then lost to the modern nation-state, would there be a spiritual vacuum to be filled by some ideology? So what Latins have to offer the world in bringing Christ to it, after 50 years of a disastrous liturgical reform?
"And if there is a simple lesson to be drawn from the sprawling work of both de Lubac and Balthasar it may well be that misrememberers are far more dangerous to Christianity because in some lights they look just like it."
We are not talking about heresies but philosophical errors that do not fulfill man's heart, but feed upon sin and vice. what normal person claims to be a Hegelian or Nietzschean? Academics may pretend; there are those on the new right who claim to be followers of other philosophers, but they have rejected Christianity because of its perceived errors in its moral code.
Ressourcement Futures
Church Life: Renewing Nouvelle Théologie by Cyril O’Regan
Forgetfulness of God is a serious problem - without memory of God we cannot bless Him and thank Him for His manifold benefits. Is this forgetfulness, then, just an intellectual mistake, or is it one caused by sin? If the Latin churches had not first been internally weakened, and then lost to the modern nation-state, would there be a spiritual vacuum to be filled by some ideology? So what Latins have to offer the world in bringing Christ to it, after 50 years of a disastrous liturgical reform?
"And if there is a simple lesson to be drawn from the sprawling work of both de Lubac and Balthasar it may well be that misrememberers are far more dangerous to Christianity because in some lights they look just like it."
We are not talking about heresies but philosophical errors that do not fulfill man's heart, but feed upon sin and vice. what normal person claims to be a Hegelian or Nietzschean? Academics may pretend; there are those on the new right who claim to be followers of other philosophers, but they have rejected Christianity because of its perceived errors in its moral code.
Ressourcement Futures
Theology of Vocations
A Latin traditionalist pov?
1Peter 5: On Discerning Vocations: How to Think about “States of Life” by Peter Kwasniewski
1Peter 5: On Discerning Vocations: How to Think about “States of Life” by Peter Kwasniewski
Pray Unceasingly
Pravmir: What is Prayer of the Intellect and of the Heart?
ABBOT GEORGIOS KAPSANIS OF GREGORIOU
Remembrance of God demonstrates communion with Him and is therefore like prayer. Striving to invoke the holy Name of Christ continuously, through the ...
ABBOT GEORGIOS KAPSANIS OF GREGORIOU
Remembrance of God demonstrates communion with Him and is therefore like prayer. Striving to invoke the holy Name of Christ continuously, through the ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019
FAQ by Nicholas Denysenko on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Pray Tell: A New Orthodox Church of Ukraine: FAQ by Nicholas Denysenko
Humani Generis and la Nouvelle Théologie,
HPR: Looking Back at “Humani Generis” BY FR. BRIAN VAN HOVE, SJ
See also Joseph Komonchak, Humani generis and “la ‘nouvelle théologie'”
See also Joseph Komonchak, Humani generis and “la ‘nouvelle théologie'”
More Responses to Constantinople
A CANONICAL CRISIS IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Primacy, Conciliarity and the Ecumenical Patriarchate by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
The actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (EP) in its process of granting a Tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic groups in Ukraine have created a canonical crisis.
GETTING TO THE ESSENCE. A LOOK AT THE SCHISM THROUGH THE EYES OF PROFESSOR OSIPOV
Professor Alexei Osipov
The following is a translated transcript of a Spas (Savior) Orthodox TV channel special edition of their program, “Straight to the essence”. In these extremely disturbing times, people want to hear a familiar, trusted voice of experience and sound theology. Professor Osipov is that voice.
Primacy, Conciliarity and the Ecumenical Patriarchate by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
The actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (EP) in its process of granting a Tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic groups in Ukraine have created a canonical crisis.
GETTING TO THE ESSENCE. A LOOK AT THE SCHISM THROUGH THE EYES OF PROFESSOR OSIPOV
Professor Alexei Osipov
The following is a translated transcript of a Spas (Savior) Orthodox TV channel special edition of their program, “Straight to the essence”. In these extremely disturbing times, people want to hear a familiar, trusted voice of experience and sound theology. Professor Osipov is that voice.
A Bit of a Stretch?
Russian Faith: The Heresy of Constantinople's Neo-Papism in Light of Orthodox Trinitarian Theology by Hieromonk Kirill (Zinkovsky), Hieromonk Methody (Zinkovsky), Hieromonk Varnava (Snytko)
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
That There Is None Being Exercised to Deal with the Problem Properly
CAR: What the Bishop Zanchetta case tells us about Church leadership by Christopher R. Altieri
It is possible to come to the very edge of telling of falsehood, while still telling the technical truth. Church leaders have gotten very good at this.
It is possible to come to the very edge of telling of falsehood, while still telling the technical truth. Church leaders have gotten very good at this.
The Imperial Episcopacy
Given the development of the monoepiscopate and sin, was it inevitable that the centralization of episcopal power/authority would occur in the patriarch? How is such an arrangement (created through positive law or by concession by the "subordinate" bishops) to be prevented from becoming some sort of tyranny? Synodality? Withdrawal from the synod or non-acceptance of a decision?
What is the basis of thinking of a national (or political) grouping of churches as a "particular Church"?
What are the disadvantages of churches being organized along ethnic or political divisions? (And the advantages?)
Related:
Congregation for Clergy: PRIESTS IN THE EARLY CHURCH AND IN VATICAN II
What is the basis of thinking of a national (or political) grouping of churches as a "particular Church"?
What are the disadvantages of churches being organized along ethnic or political divisions? (And the advantages?)
Related:
Congregation for Clergy: PRIESTS IN THE EARLY CHURCH AND IN VATICAN II
Monday, January 21, 2019
Maybe He is an Italian in that Respect
As opposed to a quasi-Jansenist of another nationality; but should this attitude cover any sexual sin, regardless of the age and gender of the persons involved? Or are some more serious than others?
Sandro Magister: Memo For the Summit On Abuse. For Francis, the Sins “Below the Belt” Are “the Lightest”
Sandro Magister: Memo For the Summit On Abuse. For Francis, the Sins “Below the Belt” Are “the Lightest”
The Confession of Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem
The Confession of Dositheus (Eastern Orthodox, 1672)
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Who is corrupting Spain?
Happy that "Tender un puente" was launched in Zaragoza at the Centro Pignatelli, a faith and social justice center of the Jesuits. Estoy feliz de que se haya lanzado "Tender un puente" en Zaragoza en el Centro Pignatelli, un centro de justicia social y de la fe de los jesuitas.
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) January 19, 2019
"Tender un puente" is the Spanish-language translation of "Building a Bridge," about showing respect and welcome to LGBT Catholics.
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) January 19, 2019
"Tender un puente" es la traducción en español de "Building a Bridge"https://t.co/eqhjY4boGT pic.twitter.com/0ybDJ0bOa8
A friend wrote: "A room to overflow, with lots of varied people and beliefs, where two-thirds of the room were not 'the usual people.' Testimonies, invitations and challenges provoke spontaneous applause. But above all, a time for listening, meeting and to keep walking.” pic.twitter.com/ruEggCY0G1
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) January 19, 2019
More On the PCED Decision
CWR Dispatch: Pope Francis continues curial shakeup: suppresses Ecclesia Dei commission, moves Sistine Chapel Choir by Christopher R. Altieri
The main issues facing the Vatican and the SSPX are doctrinal in nature, so it makes sense to have the principal organ for dialogue with the SSPX directly under the purview of the curial dicastery responsible for doctrine.
The main issues facing the Vatican and the SSPX are doctrinal in nature, so it makes sense to have the principal organ for dialogue with the SSPX directly under the purview of the curial dicastery responsible for doctrine.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Lord Have Mercy
May some good come out of the current mess.
Metropolitan Epiphanius Attends Presentation of Book, Dialogue Heals Wounds by Head of Ukrainian Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Metropolitan Epiphanius Attends Presentation of Book, Dialogue Heals Wounds by Head of Ukrainian Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav
A Pedagogical Question
If a school has co-education, when is the right time to end it? At the age of reason (between 7 and 8 years old), so second or third grades? Or at the beginning of puberty (which can be as low as 9 years of age if stressors are present, otherwise 11 to 13), 6 to 8 grade? Or somewhere in that range? It seems middle school (6 to 8) is a convenient point for dropping co-education, but perhaps it should be done at an earlier age, like at 9 years.
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