Friday, May 03, 2019

Pascha in Athens

More on A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.

CWR Dispatch: Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part II by Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin

Latins Gonna Latin

This was republished by Catholic Culture in response to the letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy. Alternative ecclesiologies will not be considered!

Theories that Francis is not the Pope (or can be deposed) destroy the credibility of the Church by Dr. Jeff Mirus

Exorcism


Preaching and Theology

Church Life: There’s No Relation Between Preaching and Theology by John Cavadini

Something on the Book of Revelation

Church Life: Liturgy and Slaughter in the Book of Revelation by Francesca A. Murphy

The New Passover

Church Life: The Liturgy is the Easter Story’s Proper Setting by Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor

Richard Bernier, "Byzantine Spirituality and the Tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola"

Not a connection one would expect to be made, and probably not without criticism.





Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Was it enough?

What were the causes for the evangelization of South America by the Jesuits not being effective? Interference by the secular authorities?

Thomistic Institute at Stanford

Monday, May 13: A lecture by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. (Georgetown University)



Icons of God

Monday, April 29, 2019

Should a Pope Emeritus Have Any Voice?

Sandro Magister: When Benedict Entrusted His “Notes” To Francis. An Additional Detail - LifeSiteNews

Altieri on Curial Reform

CWR: Despite much-hyped reform, new Curia remains a governing apparatus by Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva [...]

Christos Anesti

Fr. Seraphim Dedes

A New Dicastery for Evangelization?

1P5: Vatican “Super Dicastery”: A Papal Promise Fulfilled?

Sunday, April 28, 2019

John 20:19-25

Illumination



It is good to see adult converts; certainly has me thinking again about the question of initiating all babies, children, and teenagers into the Christian life without discernment by the pastor.

Keunwoo Kwon Reviews Justice as a Virtue

 Reading Religion

While this book is an excellent work crafted by a first-rate scholar, this reader has a minor quibble about an omission rather than a commission. In this volume Porter does not address the issue of “burdened virtue” raised by Lisa Tessman in her 2005 Burdened Virtues (Oxford University Press). Since Porter discusses with nuance the complicated relationship between justice and eudaemonia in chapter 5, it is a little bit of a surprise that Tessman’s well-noted challenge to the Aristotelian moral tradition is entirely absent in this chapter. To what extent would Aquinas acknowledge the contingent connection between virtue and flourishing? Is it legitimate to see the virtue of justice as a mean in an Aristotelian sense, given that there seems to be no mean for an intense sensitivity to others’ suffering in this tragic world? Would Aquinas’s emphasis on supernatural grace and his eschatology based upon the Exitus-Reditus framework somehow help resolve this tension? These questions deserve a serious response from Porter, especially when her work implicitly touches upon the issues treated with care by Tessman.

Pascha, Resurrection, and Faith

Church Life: What Does Belief in the Resurrection Look Like? by David Fagerberg

The Importance of "Natural Philosophy"

Public Discourse: A Natural Philosopher’s Lament By John G. Brungardt

Friday, April 26, 2019

Gerald J. Russello Reviews Aquinas and the Market

CWR Dispatch: Cui bono? Bringing Thomistic thought to bear on modern economics by Gerald J. Russello

In her new book, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld makes a welcome contribution to a distinctive, Catholic way of looking at economics.

Two Designs for Notre Dame

Prof Jens Zimmerman on 'The Hermeneutical Significance of Tradition'

Monday, April 22, 2019

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Icons of Holy Week

A Reason for Evangelization?

Liberals, statists, and non-believers will not care about the Christian genealogy of rights and rights talk, just as they don't really care about Roman Law or the Common Law, except insofar as it supports their ideology.

RCP: Recovering the Christian Foundations of Human Rights by Peter Berkowitz

Letter of Bishop Milan

In Hungary...



Christ is risen!

Friday, April 19, 2019

"Passover" Meal

CWR Dispatch: When was the Last Supper? by Dr. Randall B. Smith
Was the Last Supper a Passover meal or some sort of pre-Passover “farewell” meal? Does John have the story right, or do Matthew, Mark, and Luke?

Latin Theology of the Priesthood

HPR: Patristic Ressourcement in the Theology of the Priesthood by Dr. Joshua Madden

June 4








The Mystical Supper

Monday, April 15, 2019

This Would Be a Shock to Latin Sensibilities

Pray for France







SVOTS


Christopher Altieri on Benedict XVI's Essay

CWR Dispatch: The problem with Benedict’s essay by Christopher R. Altieri

Sr. Vassa Opines

Saturday, April 13, 2019

More from Psaltikon

Fr. Paul Mariani, SJ on Cardinal Zen's Book

For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in China

Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong: Fighter, Teacher, Risk-Taker by Fr. Paul Mariani, S.J.
The book For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in China is not for the faint of heart. For—as any fighter—Cardinal Zen calls out his adversaries.

Related:
The Price of Catholic Unity by MARY SPENCER
Cardinal Zen In New Book… Vatican’s China Strategy Was All About Compromise And Surrender by Maike Hickson




Friday, April 12, 2019

Carl Olson Comments

CWR: Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete by Carl E. Olson
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...]

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Black Hole Photo

NASA (via Fr. Z)

Adaptable to the Byzantine Rite?

Keble College chapel, Oxford. Still not feeling it for the medieval reredos. But Latin traditionalists generally don't care much for anything that smacks of hybridization, even if there was a common Romano-Byzantine style for some time, from which one could develop organically.

Psaltikon

Venice in the East

Benedict XVI on the Sexual Abuse Scandal

CWR/CNA: Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse’
Essay
The following is a previously unpublished essay from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: On February 21 to 24, at the invitation of Pope Francis, the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences gathered at the Vatican to [...]


Joseph Ratzinger On Sexual Abuse in the Church: “The Ultimate Reason Lies in the Absence of God”

Commentary:
Archbishop Chaput
R. R. Reno

Gender in Genesis: Father Lawrence Farley

Tuesday, April 09, 2019