Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Jerry Salyer on Jacques Maritain
1P5: Jacques Maritain: Visionary or Leftist Ideologue? by Jerry Salyer
Related:
Saul Alinsky and Jacques Maritain by Christopher Blosser
Saul Alinsky and "Saint" Pope Paul VI: Genesis of the Conciliar Surrender to the World by Christopher A. Ferrara
The Philosopher and the Provocateur. The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky. Edited by Bernard Doering. University of Notre Dame Press. 118 pages. $25.95.
Did it go out of print? Not seeing it at the UND website.
Related:
Saul Alinsky and Jacques Maritain by Christopher Blosser
Saul Alinsky and "Saint" Pope Paul VI: Genesis of the Conciliar Surrender to the World by Christopher A. Ferrara
The Philosopher and the Provocateur. The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky. Edited by Bernard Doering. University of Notre Dame Press. 118 pages. $25.95.
Did it go out of print? Not seeing it at the UND website.
New Preface Options for the EF Missal
Some Latin traditionalists will probably complain. Maybe there is a legitimate critique of how they were composed -- would skilled liturgical scholars of the past approve of these new prefaces?
Rorate Caeli: VERY IMPORTANT #2: SEVEN NEW OPTIONAL PREFACES FOR THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSAL
NLM
Related:
Rorate Caeli: VERY IMPORTANT #2: SEVEN NEW OPTIONAL PREFACES FOR THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSAL
NLM
Related:
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
An Interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.
CWR: Ressourcement after Vatican II honors the work of Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J.
An interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., who co-edited a collection of 13 essays on ressourcement thought in gratitude to Fr. Fessio for a lifetime of service to the Church.
Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J.
An interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., who co-edited a collection of 13 essays on ressourcement thought in gratitude to Fr. Fessio for a lifetime of service to the Church.
Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World
Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World
Discernment of spirits, part of the Christian patrimony, "East and West":
Discernment of spirits, part of the Christian patrimony, "East and West":
AD: At the very end of your last chapter, you briefly work in Lev Gillet and also Kallistos Ware. Tell us a bit more about their experience and relevance to your study.
Their experience, as recounted in the book, is of interest because it took place in the context of an academic study at Oxford University on religious experience. The Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, which is now based at the University of Wales, was collecting thousands of accounts of religious experience in the 1970s. As a way of reflecting on all this material interviewed a number of scholars, theologians and pastors about how they understand this persistent phenomenon.
Interviewed separately, Fr Lev Gillet and Fr Kallistos Ware (as he was then) gave very similar criteria for evaluating such experiences. They said it must be repeated. It can be short and authoritative, or come through gradual “infiltration by God.” It can be tested by asking others who understand your problem to pray for a solution and to ask for guidance, and see whether the answers converge. But the most definitive criterion is to pay attention to the feelings and actions that the experience produces. “Does this guidance create in you sorrow, bitterness, hatred? Or does it create in you joy and love for God and other people? Judge the tree according to its fruit.”
Sunday, March 22, 2020
One Take on the Eucharist
CWR Dispatch: Sacramental inefficiency and liturgical uselessness: Insights from St. John Paul II and Romano Guardini by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
A Quick Response to DBH?
Would this be sufficient for him?
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
Written by a Latin
"It is a time for them to challenge themselves and us, their priests and flocks, as to whether the Tabernacle changes who and how we are as human beings. Do we miss Our Lord? Do we long for Him?"
Objectification of the Eucharist.
NLM
Remember that charge against Joseph Ratzinger about denying the Real Presence? Papal Heresies.
Objectification of the Eucharist.
NLM
Remember that charge against Joseph Ratzinger about denying the Real Presence? Papal Heresies.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
St. Gregory Palamas on Theosis
St. Gregory Deification (Theosis)
We Are Partakers of the Divine: Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator Himself. It becomes easier to breathe, life becomes better, and we become purer when we see where we are going, why we are going, and what we should ask God for.
Archpriest Vsevolod Shpiller (+1984)
The Teaching of St Gregory Palamas: Theosis is Possible Through the Uncreated Energies Of God
St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers by Fr. George Florovsky
We Are Partakers of the Divine: Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator Himself. It becomes easier to breathe, life becomes better, and we become purer when we see where we are going, why we are going, and what we should ask God for.
Archpriest Vsevolod Shpiller (+1984)
The Teaching of St Gregory Palamas: Theosis is Possible Through the Uncreated Energies Of God
St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers by Fr. George Florovsky
An Exaggeration?
The Byzantine emphasis on monasteries is historical. But is it warranted? Prayer is important for all Christians, that is true at least.
I have seen critiques of "gerondism" here and there but I don't know if the critiques are correct.
Don’t Look for New Ideals. The Monastic Life Has Always Been an Example for the Laity
Related:
“Let’s be Christians Twenty-Four Hours a Day”: A Conversation with an Athonite Ascetic by Hieroschemamonk Ștefan Nuțescu
I have seen critiques of "gerondism" here and there but I don't know if the critiques are correct.
Don’t Look for New Ideals. The Monastic Life Has Always Been an Example for the Laity
Related:
“Let’s be Christians Twenty-Four Hours a Day”: A Conversation with an Athonite Ascetic by Hieroschemamonk Ștefan Nuțescu
Friday, March 13, 2020
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
"The Synodal Way"
CWR Dispatch: New President of the German Bishops’ Conference speaks about the “German” Church by Martin Lohmann
Bishop Georg Bätzing makes no secret of his enthusiasm for the so-called Synodal Way. He mentions it repeatedly. Again and again.
"although the day before the Bishops’ Conference met the rumor could be heard that he was the clear favorite, especially of the bishops from Southern Germany."
The churches in Southern Germany must be in worse shape than I thought.
Related:
CNA/CWR: Women deacons possible after ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishops’ chairman
Bishop Georg Bätzing makes no secret of his enthusiasm for the so-called Synodal Way. He mentions it repeatedly. Again and again.
"although the day before the Bishops’ Conference met the rumor could be heard that he was the clear favorite, especially of the bishops from Southern Germany."
The churches in Southern Germany must be in worse shape than I thought.
Related:
CNA/CWR: Women deacons possible after ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishops’ chairman
Monday, March 09, 2020
Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross
Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross
Eerdmans: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by Khaled Anatolios
I personally don't see the need to combine Byzantine and Latin views of soteriology in this way but apparently Anatolios does.
Eerdmans: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by Khaled Anatolios
Anatolios uses the phrase “doxological contrition” to suggest that the truth of salvation is found both in Jesus’s perfect glorification of God and in his representative repentance for humanity’s sinful rejection of its original calling to participate in the life of the Holy Trinity.
I personally don't see the need to combine Byzantine and Latin views of soteriology in this way but apparently Anatolios does.
Sunday, March 08, 2020
50+ Years of the Pauline Reform
Translation of the liturgy into the vernacular, etc. and we still have devotions like this that are gaining to popularity, which have replaced a proper understanding of our adoption by the Father as sons in Christ. The Holy Family has supplanted the Trinity.
CNA/CWR: Why a new consecration to St. Joseph is spreading like wildfire
CNA/CWR: Why a new consecration to St. Joseph is spreading like wildfire
Saturday, March 07, 2020
A Confusion Regarding the Christian Priesthood
What Catholic clergy and laity have in common: a Gospel mission
McGrath Center
There are also important distinctions in the priesthood of all baptized Christians and those who are priests and bishops by virtue of sacramental ordination. The hierarchical priesthood is not simply “more of the same priesthood that the baptized have,” he added. “It’s not a super priesthood somehow completing, displacing or superseding the common priesthood.”
At the same time, there is a “priesthood which marks the whole Church as a priestly people.” This does not imply “that there is an ‘inner Church’ of ‘super Christians’ and that that is the hierarchy,” because that falls into the error of clericalism.
“if baptism confers a priesthood, it means it confers a participation in the sacrifice of Christ which, made present in the Eucharist, makes the Church,” Cavadini said.
“The exercise of this priesthood, then is ordered towards communion, and evangelization, if it is truly an exercise of the baptismal priesthood, is intended to bring people to the encounter with the Risen Lord, which is the incorporation into the eucharistic body, through configuration to Christ’s sacrifice.”
McGrath Center
What would Latins know about synodality at this point?
CNA/CWR: Pope Francis announces a 2022 synod on synodality
Related: Eastern Christian Books: Shaun Blanchard on Jansenism, Pistoia, and Catholic Historiography
Related: Eastern Christian Books: Shaun Blanchard on Jansenism, Pistoia, and Catholic Historiography
Friday, March 06, 2020
Thursday, March 05, 2020
A Latin Group Issues a Latin Document with a Latin Conclusion Produced from Latin Premises
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
Opening the Remaining Archives of Pius XII
CWR: History Redeemed: Justice for Pope Pius XII by William Doino, Jr.
The March 2nd opening of the last remaining archives from Pius XII’s pontificate will likely reinforce what historians already know about the war-time pontiff’s actions on behalf of endangered Jews.
The March 2nd opening of the last remaining archives from Pius XII’s pontificate will likely reinforce what historians already know about the war-time pontiff’s actions on behalf of endangered Jews.
Time to Move the Chairs on the Deck Again
"Younger." Sure.
CNA/CWR: German bishops’ elect new conference chairman
Erstes Pressestatement von Bischof Bätzing nach seiner Wahl zum Vorsitzenden der DBK
Der neue Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bischof Georg Bätzing zu seiner Wahl
CNA/CWR: German bishops’ elect new conference chairman
Erstes Pressestatement von Bischof Bätzing nach seiner Wahl zum Vorsitzenden der DBK
Der neue Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bischof Georg Bätzing zu seiner Wahl
A Product of Western "Semi-Arianism"?
For contemporary monothelites, by contrast, Jesus’s humanity is firmly in the driver’s seat. To the extent that we may say that Jesus is divine, this is at best a secondary claim, derived from the historical Jesus, the product of a scientific quest.
First Things: Jesus: Less Than Divine by Hans Boersma
Monday, March 02, 2020
Sunday, March 01, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Changes in Personnel for the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Magister: From the East Not Light But Darkness. Strange Shufflings in the Roman Curia
And in fact, rather than a promotion, the new role given to Vasil is a downgrade. His ambition was to return home as the major archbishop of an unprecedented and transnational Church of the Ruthenians, with its metropolitan see in Presov, which would bring together Slovaks, Croats and Hungarians of the Greek-Catholic rite, plus the the annexation of a Ukrainian diocese, that of Mukachevo, also populated by Ruthenians, for a total of about 200 thousand faithful.
Of course, this project was hardly pleasing to the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine. It was counting instead on the promotion to Rome, as the new secretary of the congregation, of one of its bishops, Teodor Martynyuk, auxiliary of the Greek Catholic diocese of Ternopil.
But neither aim has hit the mark. Instead of the Ukrainian Martynyuk - or at least another easterner - a Latinizing Italian has been made secretary. While Vasil is for now only temporary administrator of a diocese subordinate to Presov, that of Kosice, whose bishop, Milan Chautur, is still in office, albeit under investigation by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith for allegations of sexual harassment against a minor.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Debating Theological Explanations for the Real Presence
First Things: The Theology of Transubstantiation
From First Thoughts
Brett Salkeld and Mark discuss Reformation-era debates over the Real Presence and what Catholics and Protestants believe about the Eucharist. Continue Reading »
From First Thoughts
Brett Salkeld and Mark discuss Reformation-era debates over the Real Presence and what Catholics and Protestants believe about the Eucharist. Continue Reading »
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Un'altra libertà
Un'altra libertà by Camillo Ruini, Gaetano Quagliariello
Contro i nuovi profeti del paradiso in terra
Magister: Praise of Freedom, the Real Kind. Dialogue Between a Cardinal and a Lay Thinker
Il cardinal Ruini contro il multiculturalismo: "Non è valore in sé"
Contro i nuovi profeti del paradiso in terra
Magister: Praise of Freedom, the Real Kind. Dialogue Between a Cardinal and a Lay Thinker
Il cardinal Ruini contro il multiculturalismo: "Non è valore in sé"
In the Foosteps of Marx
CNA/CWR: Secretary of German bishops' conference steps down
Fr. Hans Langendörfer, SJ, has held the position since 1996.
Langendörfer made the announcement Feb. 26, through the official media outlet of the Church in Germany. He said that he is stepping down to make way for someone younger.
“I have come to the conclusion that it is now a good time to hand this position over to younger hands,” he said Feb. 25. Langendörfer is 68.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Erich Fromm
CWR Dispatch: Lent, fear of freedom, and love of slavery
This year, during Lent, I am going to focus on this question: “In which areas am I unfree, and why do I prefer this slavery to freedom?”
Eastern Christian Books: Ivan Illich and Erich Fromm on the Corrupt Church
This year, during Lent, I am going to focus on this question: “In which areas am I unfree, and why do I prefer this slavery to freedom?”
Eastern Christian Books: Ivan Illich and Erich Fromm on the Corrupt Church
Saturday, February 22, 2020
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