Cajetan, Integralist

St. Thomas's greatest commentator: "And since a higher end corresponds to a higher agent, moving and directing; the consequence is, that the spiritual power… moves, acts, and directs the secular power and those things which belong to it to the spiritual end." https://t.co/7Kj4fS9UMn

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) June 30, 2020

Liberalism as a Felix Culpa

Not really, since it merely precipitated the Latins solidifying their ecclesiology.

CLJ

Our Enemy Is Turned Into a Friend
by @Vermeullarmine via @gjpappin &@ND_EthicsCenter https://t.co/GIsPdKOme6

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 30, 2020

Jacques de Monleon on Sharing

Jacques de Monleon (Charles De Koninck's best friend) on human sharing, and how it is neither entirely selfish, nor entirely self-diffusive. pic.twitter.com/LVDQFm4w6o

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) June 30, 2020

Hauerwas' Latest

In VISION AND VIRTUE, Stanley #Hauerwas explores and reflects on what it means to have a truly Christian ethics. #ethics #philosophy #NDPGemshttps://t.co/UtGM046OuS pic.twitter.com/HlH8sIIIkH

— UNDPress (@UNDPress) June 29, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Eastern Christian Books: Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

OUP

The New Prefaces of the EF, Parts 6 and 7

Parts 6 and 7

Common-Good Constitutionalism

Common-Good Constitutionalism: Collected Links https://t.co/nA607zKE8s

— Ius & Iustitium (@iusetiustitium) June 26, 2020

Tom Hibbs with Bishop Barron

Presidential Conversations with Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., is finally here! Episode 1: Pursuing Justice with Hope and Courage with @BishopBarron, Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Founder of @WordOnFire.

You don't want to miss this: https://t.co/2h3HvFGaCd pic.twitter.com/0E4bXjVRHD

— University of Dallas (@UofDallas) June 26, 2020

Phil Lawler Interviews Archbishop Vigano

This piece-- based and (and linking to) an exclusive interview with Archbishop Vigano-- is the most important thing I've written recently. Please read and pass it along. https://t.co/AnrzkEKVbG

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) June 26, 2020

Alice Ramos on Reditus ad Deum

"Another excellent contribution comes from Alice M. Ramos, who reminds the reader of Thomas’s arguments that because 'creatures proceed from God, then they are to return to him, & this return is effected by all beings through & in their proper operation.'" https://t.co/ns6N6N9l0X

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) June 25, 2020

Milbank on Empire

Some helpful and provocative theses on empire by @johnmilbank3 here: https://t.co/nEWHtLmbds.

— The Fudgelist (@thefudgelist) June 24, 2020

The State of (Chalcedonian) Orthodox Music in America

AFR

A Liturgical Education

#LiturgyAndEducation | Continuing his liturgy and education series, @timothypomalley affirms that a liturgical education forms students for contemplating God, which is true happiness. https://t.co/TnP6QdFRj4

— McGrath Institute (@McGrathND) June 24, 2020

Commonweal Interview with Jacques Maritain from 1938

In this fascinating interview from 1938, Commonweal sat down with Jacques Maritain, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, to discuss the war in Spain, the state of American philosophy, and whether Maritain is a freemason (he's not). https://t.co/0KwY590KNC

— Commonweal Magazine (@commonwealmag) June 24, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus

Eastern Christian Books: The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus

Cambridge University Press

A Perspective on the Challenge for the Chalcedonian Orthodox

Orthodox Ethos: What is the Greatest Spiritual Challenge Facing the Church Today?
- Archpriest Fr. Peter Heers; interview with Herman Middleton

More on "Co-Responsibility"

"Co-Responsibility: What It Means for Parishes and the People of God"

In this episode of #TheChurchPodcast, @JohnRinaldo and @chrisrwesley are joined by @leodelo2 as they explore the definition of Co-Responsibility in the Catholic Church.https://t.co/DrqzIl0Y60

— Parish Success Group (@ParishSuccess) June 17, 2020

Thomas Royen

News from 2017: Retired German man solves one of world's most complex maths problem with 'simple proof'
Thomas Royen found the solution at the age of 67 while brushing his teeth

Not only is this important, but it proves many our truths are learned by a form of induction, what can be termed a gift from God. https://t.co/4bhuYtxm6K

— Staff Sergeant Briggs (@FamedCelebrity) June 21, 2020

Part Two of Icons of Sound

Bishop Schneider on Latin Interfaith Dialogue

Bishop Schneider: Catholics and Muslims share no common faith in God, no common adoration https://t.co/DanJv22DgY

— LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) June 20, 2020

Apparently you are unfamiliar with Muhammad's status in Islam as the "excellent example" (Qur'an 33:21) for human behavior in all ages. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of Muslims are quite familiar with this. https://t.co/O2ap12eFOX

— Robert Spencer روبرت سبنسر रॉबर्ट स्पेंसर 🇺🇸 (@jihadwatchRS) June 21, 2020

Interview with Joseph Bottum

VIDEO | America amid Spiritual Anxiety: A Conversation with @JosephBottum – via @markdtooley https://t.co/rDLVRloEMW

— Providence (@ProvMagazine) June 20, 2020

Bishop Robert Barron on the Sacred Heart

Friends, in my homily from the Global Rosary Relay event at Thomas Aquinas College, I make the point that the heart of Jesus is not simply the heart of a great man from the first century, but rather the heart of God himself. Please watch and share! https://t.co/yXk05BnflZ

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) June 20, 2020

Political and Ecclesial Authority

Some people have disputed my statement that it doesn’t belong to governments to say whether we can go to Mass. Here is my explanation:

The temporal power (emperor, kings, presidents, prime and other ministers, parliaments, and courts of law) exists to promote man’s temporal

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 20, 2020

Europa

Beneath Europa’s icy surface is an ocean at least 60 km (40 miles) deep

The deepest ocean on Earth is only 11 km (6.8 miles) deep! Let that sink in 🙃#spacepic.twitter.com/HRlUdUIuBZ

— latest in space (@latestinspace) June 20, 2020

Apostasy? Maybe Just Heresy

There's too much support of the German bishops' apostasy coming from the USCCB. Just read the headlines at the Catholic News Service. https://t.co/EuGTkM9U5C @JeanieHannaman @GeraldMurray8 @TitoEdwards @gloriatv @RaymondArroyo @SrHelenaBurns @holysmoke @DrJrobackmorse

— John Gravino (@john_gravino) June 20, 2020

Elder Sophrony on the Three Stages of the Spiritual Life

A Free Political Theology Course

I am co-teaching the below course this summer with an old and dear friend for St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry. I am really looking forward to it. It can be taken for credit or audited for free. Check it out if you're interested. It's online/synchronous. pic.twitter.com/WMqYCXqZY4

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) June 19, 2020

Lex Regia

The tyrannical Lex Regia?, by @smithpatrick08 https://t.co/hLIc81JDUq

— Ius & Iustitium (@iusetiustitium) June 18, 2020

P. Smith seems to suppose that Integralism: 'A Manual of Political Philosophy' attempts to criticise Roman Law and the Lex Regia. In fact, the book criticises only codification and the misreading of the Lex Regia as an account of the origin of civil legitimacy as such.

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 19, 2020

The Who Report?

No Word on McCarrick Report as Second Anniversary of His Removal Passes Quietly https://t.co/lm5HVFL0pa @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) June 19, 2020

Accomodation to the State

The Christian Vitalist International: A translation of “Rescuing the Political” by Catholic philosopher-priest Romano Guardini.

https://t.co/xrwm1l5oj8

— Christian Vitalists 🔥🕊️ (@XtianVitalism) June 12, 2020

But what is the meaning of the state? You say that it should support and protect the wellbeing of individuals and the whole, that it should regulate and develop economic life, support cultural work. You say it’s everything that corresponds to the laws that the state gives, which it grasps by stimulation and creation through people and agencies. And everything is right. The political designates the economic and cultural significance of the state. But that’s still not the political in the special sense of the word.

To me the political meaning of the state actually appears to be sublimity [Hoheit]. It is the incorporation of majesty for its own sake. But sublimity has at its essence God alone. Thus, the political meaning of the state seems to me such that, since it is itself given by God, it demonstrates and validates His majesty among the natural matters and realities of life. Not in moral and religious matters. For those responsibility lies not with the state, but the church. The state has to represent the majesty of God in the matters of natural life.

It does this most of all by way of its presence. It is legitimate. It does not simply exist, but it exists “with right,” by the grace of God, and this rightful existence demands recognition from other states and from individuals. And it does this by way of right in the life of its citizens: it makes right. It does not have a political character insofar as it pursues goals, provides benefits, facilitates commerce, or seeks to bring welfare, but insofar as it carries its meaning within itself. That means that just “being right” is beyond every goal. Said more precisely: the state is the right that God affirms, and that is the essential order itself. It is right, then, as a natural revelation of divine sublimity. It is on this right that the state stakes in its entire legitimate existence, the intellectual brunt of its sublimity, i.e. the state is “authority.” At the end every law proceeds “in the name of God.” The state, however, even stakes its power on right. It coerces obedience to right.

It is a naive judgment of the state, common to Roman Catholic intellectuals, considering it to be a valid or legitimate form of political organization as what preceded it in history. On this they are in error.

Lord Have Mercy

PHOTO of the day: This is how our beloved Benedict XVI looked when he traveled to Germany this morning to accompany his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who is very ill. The two brothers celebrated Mass together. Let us keep them in our prayers! 📸Courtesy: Fondazione Ratzinger pic.twitter.com/tFGc9mTbml

— EWTN News Nightly (@EWTNNewsNightly) June 18, 2020

More on the New Prefaces

Part 6

FOTA XIII Postponed

A Latin Psalter

A glorious Latin Psalter created for an Archbishop of Trier, which came with a princess into Kyiv, where some 11th century Old Rus pictures were added, brilliant golden Byzantine illuminations of saints and princes. Today Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico CXXXVI. pic.twitter.com/26EwdJ2hsV

— Arthur Westwell (@ArthurWestwell) June 18, 2020

Dr. William Diem, Dr. Matthew Dugandzic, and Fr. Dylan Schrader Discuss Usury

The newest episode of Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology is now available. On this episode, Dr. William Diem, Dr. @MDugandzic, and @FrDylanSchrader discuss usury. https://t.co/Eg6yTLVOXR

— The Sacra Doctrina Project (@sacradoctrina) June 16, 2020

Joshua Hochschild Reviews Three Books

The Intellectual Vocation

Princeton University Press: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok

Princeton University Press Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

Penguin Press: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs

Diligence

A playful and compelling piece by @NotoriousTIB. I especially appreciate that she ends with the inimitable Gerard Manley Hopkins, who really is the most attentive poet I've read, both to language and to the realities language seeks to describe.https://t.co/5GrZwyj66U

— Onsi A. Kamel (@onsikamel) June 12, 2020

Byzantium and the Steppes

Video-presentation: #Byzantium and the #Steppes in the 6th to 7th centuries CE: #Avars, #Turks and #Bulgars#Byzanzforschung, #IMAFO, #ÖAWhttps://t.co/gSvmtvoQjB pic.twitter.com/eZVTZ613A0

— J. Preiser-Kapeller (@Byzanzforscher) June 15, 2020

Don't Start Where Communities Don't Exist

Most people can't relate to the common good or imagine it, because they don't live in a community.

The Public Discourse: Where (Not) to Begin with the Common Good by Mark Hoipkemier

The question “Who are we to become?” is always answered together. In a world where this fact were understood, we would use the grammar of the common good in the course of deliberations about how to act justly. Needless to say, that is not our world. https://t.co/ziSxBwWZcj

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) June 16, 2020

Can. 747 §2

A summary of ‘Abp.’ Carlo Maria Viganò’s powerful indictment of Vatican II and the strange new church it created. More here: https://t.co/PFTyJxHucw #vigano #CatholicTwitter #CatholicChurch #fssp #sspx #fsspx #fatima #popefrancis pic.twitter.com/F1gT4I9B0c

— Novus Ordo Watch (@NovusOrdoWatch) June 15, 2020

LSN: Abp Viganò on the ‘roots of deviation’ of Vatican II and how Francis was chosen to revolutionize the Church
In a historic text, Archbishop Viganò agrees with Bishop Athanasius Schneider in his criticism of the Second Vatican Council.

In his new statement, Archbishop Vigano clearly distances himself from the controversial Abu Dhabi statement. He says: “we know well that the purpose of these ecumenical and interreligious initiatives is not to convert those who are far from the one Church to Christ, but to divert and corrupt those who still hold the Catholic Faith, leading them to believe that it is desirable to have a great universal religion that brings together the three great Abrahamic religions ‘in a single house’: this is the triumph of the Masonic plan in preparation for the kingdom of the Antichrist!”

Now it is possible that the pope may not be promoting some sort of indifferentist humanism but rather, this is just a logical consequence of Can. 747 §2 and the desire to foster good "interfaith relations" in the name of Christ as a part of exercising that "duty" under Can. 747 §2. Would the archbishop be critical of the canon and the Latin ecclesiology that supports it?

From the letter:

Some may remember that the first ecumenical gatherings were held with the schismatics of the East, and very prudently with other Protestant sects. Apart from Germany, Holland, and Switzerland, in the beginning the countries of Catholic tradition did not welcome mixed celebrations with Protestant pastors and Catholic priests together. I recall that at the time there was talk of removing the penultimate doxology from the Veni Creator so as not to offend the Orthodox, who do not accept the Filioque.

Here he speaks more like a Latin traditionalist, though I've never read anything that would confirm him as such (an overt preference of the EF to the OF), and he may lose the sympathy of non-Latin Catholics who would read this. Maybe he and non-Latins could come to an agreement on ecclesiology that would allow for a critique of the council though I don't see anything to show that he does not consider Vatican II to be a valid ecumenical council.

John Paul II and Vatican II

CWR: A Saintly View of Vatican II by Douglas Bushman
For St. John Paul II, Vatican II is a concrete, historical realization of Christ’s promise to be with His Church through the work of the Holy Spirit. For this reason, it makes a claim on his faith.

It's another essay by a Latin about a Latin council, which may exaggerate certain Latin pious beliefs about the relationship between the Holy Spirit and a supposedly valid ecumenical council (but really a synod of the Patriarchate of Rome).

To view the Council in faith, with St. John Paul II, is to see that at Vatican II the apostolic Church experienced anew the fulfillment of Christ’s promise to send the Holy Spirit, Who “will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (Jn 14:26). For this reason, “Obedience to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council is obedience to the Holy Spirit…. Obedience to the Holy Spirit is expressed in the authentic carrying out of the tasks indicated by the Council, in full accordance with the teaching set forth therein” (Address to the College of Cardinals, November 9, 1979).

One cannot make historical judgments about a council without the exercise of faith, and Latin critics of the council, such as Latin traditionalists, have their own starting points which are held in faith.

Just as the pope may have been canonized in part for "ecclesial" reasons, to promote the credibility of Vatican II, so his judgments concerning the council are perceived to have more weight because he has been canonized.

In the Pope's Backyard

CNA/CWR: In Italy, new book suggests changes to Catholic doctrine on homosexuality by Alejandro Bermudez

Music as Liturgy: Models from Ancient Syriac Christianity

Christian Platonism: A History

CHRISTIAN PLATONISM: A HISTORY
Publication Fall 2020 @CambridgeUP
How one of history’s most influential philosophies shaped one of its most important religions.
Contents https://t.co/eXy0PefcuX @CambUP_Religion @UofTReligion @AP_Davison @pickstockc @Shermanicus @DrkMichaud pic.twitter.com/VBBAM8X7y7

— Alexander JB Hampton 🦉 (@ajbhampton) June 13, 2020

Cambridge University Press

Related:
Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
The Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook
Platonic Cabbalism in Cambridge Platonism

Libertas scholastica

Libertas scholastica is for the most part today a dead letter. What we have instead is “academic freedom.” Early 20th century scholars tried to connect the two in a grand genealogy from the libertas scholastica of the medieval universities, to...https://t.co/VfcqSy7098

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 11, 2020

CLJ

Logic as a Liberal Art: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Reasoning by R. E. Houser.

CUA Press

A recview:

"Houser, whose text primarily relies on the deductive reasoning of Aristotelian logic—with a healthy dose of grammar and rhetoric at the beginning—helps us identify the prevalence of illogic in public discourse." @CUAPress https://t.co/QfGeKv66Bu

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) June 12, 2020

Edward Baring, Converts to the Real

HUP

Two important articles on Catholicism and phenomenology in light of Edward Baring's book "Converts to the Real."
@HumbGonzGonzalez in @GenofMod and Michael Gubser in @ChurchLifeND
Read them both. #Philosophy https://t.co/932U9Hs8Wxhttps://t.co/uL0NC4uAi9

— Genealogies of Modernity (@GenofMod) June 12, 2020

Related:
What Is Continental Philosophy? An Interview with Edward Baring
Phenomenology’s Influence in the West by Graham McAleer

A Vaticanista Book

.#COMINGSOON "The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates" by @EdwardPentin

Details: https://t.co/pw3u0sZnbQ#papacy #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Cardinals pic.twitter.com/JzYWHAMucy

— SophiaInsPress (@SophiaInsPress) June 3, 2020

Sophia Institute Press

An Icon of St. Sophrony the Athonite by Sister Gabriela

Orthodox Arts Journal

Eastern Christian Books: Liturgical Mysticism

Eastern Christian Books: Liturgical Mysticism

Emmaus Academic

What Future for the State?

Source: https://t.co/NRlbnSW9dw

— Aris Roussinos (@arisroussinos) June 11, 2020

Charles Taylor's Liberalism, Again

Happening now: Sociologist José Casanova, a Berkley Center senior fellow, and philosopher Charles Taylor discuss Taylor’s seminal work #ASecularAge (2007) and the divergent religious dynamics that can coexist within our global secular age.

Watch live: https://t.co/KxCnU77kNI

— Berkley Center (@GUberkleycenter) June 11, 2020

Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance and Catholic Reform.

OUP

Speaking to @Crux, @BauerStefan says Onofrio Panvinio "invented" papal history, since he assembled more material on than any scholar up to his time and ask hard questions about the reality of change in the Church’s past. #CatholicChurch https://t.co/T4eXMVDYHn

— Charles Collins (@CharlesinRome) June 10, 2020

The New Prefaces of the EF, Part 5

NLM

Part 4 of the New Prefaces of the EF

NLM

The Mazza Hypothesis

Fr. Z: The Mazza Hypothesis: Benedict resigned as Bishop of Rome but not Vicar of Christ. Wherein Fr. Z ponders with a heavy heart.

In the podcasts, Mazza brings up the fact when Christ conferred on Peter what was clearly intended to an office that was to be handed down, when Christ gave Peter the “keys” and clearly made him head of the Apostles, earthly head of the Church built on his “rock”, when Christ at the Sea of Galilee confirmed Peter’s office, intended to be handed down, Peter had not yet been anywhere near Rome.

Peter was Vicar of Christ before he was Bishop of Rome.

When Christ takes the Apostles to Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:16-18) he gives people the “keys”. About a year later, the Apostles are ordained at the Last Supper.

Peter has the keys from Matthew 16 onward, but he is not a “bishop” until the Eucharist and Holy Orders were established by Christ.

Consider that when Christ gave primacy to Peter, there were no sees or dioceses. Peter later would found the Church at Alexandria and Antioch. Wouldn’t Antioch have been the primal see? But Peter left Antioch and went to Rome. So there seems to be nothing absolutely necessary about the one we now call “Pope” being Bishop of Rome.

This is a Latin interpretation of the proof texts used to back Rome's claims regarding the papacy. Non-Latins would interpret them differently. Those who hold to Latin ecclesiology are forced into interesting intellectual puzzles...

Three Scenes in Church History

Found This Late

Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Documentary

English Translation of Divo Barsotti's Spiritual Diary

CWR: The Motionless Flight: First English translation of Divo Barsotti’s spiritual diary by David Fagerberg, Ph.D.
Italian theologian Don Divo Barsotti (1914-2006), writes for the heart, not the head alone. He is concerned to present Christianity as new life, not simply a new philosophy or new politic.

Italian version?

Aquinas 101 Live: Wisdom and Metaphysics - Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Latins Should Take a Cue?

Greek Church Bans Yoga, Catholics Confused https://t.co/06baGIBQK2 pic.twitter.com/zoljh8NScC

— Church Militant/St. Michael's Media (@Church_Militant) June 5, 2020

Dr. Alan Fimister on the Crusade Channel

Alan Fimister talking about the two swords. https://t.co/jRWhYbWAvQ

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 4, 2020

Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.: Ask a Thomist: The Trinity

Fr. Jonathan Robinson, C.O. Has Passed

Fr. Z



In Memoriam.

Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright

NLM



I am not sure if most of the essays were previously published or not, but some of the titles look familiar. At least the title isn't Reclaiming Our Catholic Birthright.

The New EF Prefaces, Part 3

NLM



Part 2 here

Subversion Through "Synodality"

CNA/CWR: German bishop calls for Rome synod to discuss German synod
Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg says he is “very much in favour of transporting to Rome, to the level of the whole Church, the insights and decisions that we garner from the Synodal Process – also with regard to [the role of] women and ecclesial ministry.”

Last year the German bishops announced plans for a two-year “Synodal Way,” bringing together lay people and bishops to discuss four major topics: the way power is exercised in the Church; sexual morality; the priesthood; and the role of women.

They said the process would end with a series of “binding” votes — raising concerns at the Vatican that the resolutions might challenge Church teaching and discipline.

Dr. Gregory LaNave, Reading Bonaventure in a Time of Crisis

A Program of Action from Dr. John Rao

Edward Pentin: Now or Never — A Plea for Concerted Traditionalist Action

Professor John Rao: Now or Never — A Plea for Concerted Traditionalist Action https://t.co/uTxzBopgtB pic.twitter.com/ZMbQvNZjEc

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) June 2, 2020

Nevertheless, I cannot in good conscience, relate the triumphs of the past while neglecting a duty to urge my fellow Traditionalists to join together to raise up our moribund Mother in her present plight. I do so through this four-pronged Plea that is as simple to state as it will require the greatest self-effacement and willpower to act upon effectively.

1. Let each segment of the Traditionalist Movement— each “clan”, to use The Remnant’s terminology — avoid the very understandable temptation to secure its own particular survival in this moment of worldwide pandaemonium, and work together as one unit;
2. That a Central Committee of representatives of each Traditionalist “clan” be established — clerical and lay, or lay supporters alone if there be danger to the priestly fraternities and congregations concerned — to coordinate intellectual, spiritual, and practical advice and actions, whether formally or informally;
3. That every opportunity be exploited immediately to restore public worship according to the Traditional Rite, whether they are permitted by unjust State or episcopal fiat or not;
4. That as a symbol of our failure to accept the mass hysteria around us, we visibly wear a symbol of the Sacred Heart of Christ instead of the Mask of Oppression.

It is now or never. This is the last act in the modern revolutionary drama and the enemy is determined.

I'll just ad this: the EF Mass and Holy Communion are important, but they are ordered to living the life of Christ, and Latin Traditionalists, if they want to preserve their communities, need to do the heavy lifting that is required for that, rather than assuming having a common form of worship is enough.

Against Bodin's Notion of Sovereignty

Álvaro d'Ors on the way in which the kingship of Christ and the liberty of the Church exclude absolute state sovereignty. pic.twitter.com/DaNqHAAL36

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) May 31, 2020

It's an argument against a modern notion of sovereignty, but by itself it is not a sufficient check against tyranny.

Murals for St. John of the Ladder in Greenville, South Carolina

OAJ: Murals for the Burning Bush Chapel and Prothesis at St John of the Ladder in Greenville, South Carolina by Seraphim O'Keefe

Holloway Review of Manent

Public Discourse: The Problem of Human Rights by Carson Holloway

"The human rights project, perhaps intoxicated by its remarkable recent successes (such as the redefinition of marriage) is overreaching," Carson Holloway writes. https://t.co/DipHYjjV80

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) June 2, 2020

Marian Consecration

"We wrote this book to assist others in offering all that they have in consecration, with the Angelic Doctor as a teacher and guide. After all, it’s not just religious who are called to holiness. We all are!" https://t.co/zh2rrUgIpm

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) June 2, 2020

Byzantine Rome

NEW READ 📚: Do you know which churches the Byzantines built in Rome? NOW YOU DO thanks to Part III of this series on Byzantine Rome #Byzantium:https://t.co/jSu4ZYAh7C

— Byzantine Ambassador (@byzantinepower) June 1, 2020

Hunt Review of Manent

The American Mind: Breaking Our Modern Paralysis by Ross Hunt

"Manent’s prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed." ~@Ross_Hunt in @theammind

Read the full essay here: https://t.co/75wQS9dHIv pic.twitter.com/4Fo1ARUNL9

— UNDPress (@UNDPress) May 30, 2020

A Necessary Starting Point

"The Lord Jesus is the prototype and foundation of the new humanity. In him, the true 'likeness of God' (2 Cor 4:4), man – who is created in the image of God – finds his fulfillment."

-Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 431

— Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P. (@ThomasAquinasOP) June 1, 2020

But it doesn't mean that everything that is written at (R)CST in connection with it is well-reasoned.

Pentecost

Appalachian "Christ is Risen"

Remote Russian Village Sings Appalachian Style "Christ is Risen" https://t.co/dgpxdVt89m pic.twitter.com/C0zptLhYUY

— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) May 29, 2020

John Brungardt on Latin Integralism

The Josias: The Question of Catholic Integralism: An Internet Genealogy - written and originally published by John Brungardt

The Question of Catholic Integralism: An Internet Genealogy https://t.co/6mEbxlycWo

— The Josias (@josias_rex) May 29, 2020

St. Simplician in Milan

NLM

A Display of "Ecumenical Spirit"

Pope Francis is to take part in his first ever online service with Archbishop Canterbury @JustinWelby. Other senior UK church leaders will also be involved in the #Pentecost service on Sunday, marking the culmination of #ThyKingdomCome. https://t.co/K8RsiU6CF0 #CatholicNews

— The Tablet (@The_Tablet) May 29, 2020

Ο Θεός ήλθοσαν έθνη

Patrick Viscuso Reviews Kevin Schembri's Oikonomia

Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies (temporary free access)

The reviewer is a priest and canonist for GOARCH:

The Reverend Dr. Patrick Viscuso is a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and a canonist specializing in marriage and gender issues. His doctorate in historical theology from The Catholic University of American concentrated on Byzantine and Oriental canon law, patristic studies, and church history. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Fr. Viscuso is the author of a large number of scholarly publications in the field of Late Byzantine Canon Law and is a specialist in marriage legislation and theology. His most recent writings focus on the relationship of marriage to ordination, purity issues, divorce, and women's superstitions in late Byzantium.

Perhaps he has written something on the Byzantine canons on marriage and divorce.

In his review of Oikonomia: Divorce and Remarriage in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, he notes

Another point repeatedly made is that the "Orthodox tradition" invests the indissolubility of marriage with an eternal character and consequently views remarriage as a concession or expression of ecclesial oikonomia. The absence of the Eucharist and crowning during late Byzantine celebration of second and third marriages is said to imply that Orthodoxy regarded or still regards these unions as less than sacramental in some way.

However, the author fails to show any articulation of marriage as an eternal bond in Orthodox canonical or theological literature prior to the twentieth century, when this theological opinion came to be expressed at the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge. In fact, there are substantial Byzantine texts that articulate a contrary view affirming that marriage is ended by death, an example being the Scriptural commentaries of Theophylaktos, archbishop of Ohrid (b. ca. 1055-d. after 1126), specifically on Luke 20:34–36.

The assertions regarding the non-sacramental nature of second and third unions within Orthodoxy do not adequately address the facts. For instance, there was no uniform practice regarding crowning of a second or third marriage in Byzantium. Second unions were definitely crowned according to the usage of the Great Church; the presence or absence of crowning did not mean that a sacerdotal blessing of the marriage did not take place; and, since the Eucharist was not a constitutive element in the establishment of the marriage, the canonical restriction of the second and third married from the Eucharist during a period of penance did not mean that the union, as established by sacerdotal blessing, was not regarded as sacramental and incapable of sanctification.

Furthermore, in considering such questions, the absence of the Eucharist from the marriage service is completely irrelevant to its sacramental nature. As is obvious to those who have ever attended a contemporary ceremony, Orthodox marriages today are considered blessed and sacramental without the reception of the Eucharist during their celebration, even the so-called mixed marriages of Roman Catholics and Orthodox. Also, the author's emphasis on the penitential nature of second and third unions does not adequately address contemporary practice, where such penances are no longer imposed.

A dominant theologoumenon is not the same as dogma... and the opinion that marriage is eternal may not even be dominant in the various Byzantine ecclesial traditions.

So second and third "marriages" may be deemed "sacramental"? And yet a period of penance might be required. Is there a authoritative work discussing penances in the canons and their rationale?

I will have to eventually get a Byzantine textbook on marriage but probably at least one that covers a range of opinions among the various ecclesial traditions, or several textbooks. I don't think I would rely on a Greek one alone.

Greek Orthodox - The Ascension of the Lord

Adam DeVille on John Paul II

CWR: John Paul II: Diagnostician of Divisions, Doctor of Ecumenism by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
In the encyclical Ut Unim Sint, given twenty five years ago, the late pope wrote about “the necessary purification of past memories,” a consistent and urgent theme of his pontificate.

Deville uses both Taft and John Paul II for a discussion of the healing of memories. That certainly is a necessary part of reconciliation.

Nevertheless, there are more recent and more hopeful signs. These have increased with Constantinople’s granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church last year. With Russia thereby losing control over much of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in 2019, the latter remains free to deepen the healing in its already amicable and often co-operative relationship with Ukrainian Catholics.

Whether what is going on in Ukraine is a helpful development or not remains to be seen. The jockeying between Moscow and Constantinople needs to end (and recognition of Roman primacy is not the quick solution that Latin polemicists would make it to be); this may require further humbling of both historic sees by God. There needs to be ecclesial reform happening in many churches, but not the changes that liberal progressives want.

Adding Insult to Injury...

"567 years after the Fall of #Constantinople, the verse of the Fall from the Quran will be read inside #HagiaSophia"#orthodox_times #Erdogan https://t.co/1tn1rK2L71

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) May 28, 2020

An Endorsement of Participation in God

Well, folks, I just finished @AP_Davison’s truly excellent book on participation. It is comprehensive and clear and readable. I learned a great deal from it and so I have no doubt that it will be *the* major resource on the subject for the foreseeable future. pic.twitter.com/vIShgk5FHn

— Matthew Rothaus Moser (@M_Rothaus_Moser) May 28, 2020

Baryonic Matter

https://t.co/Y7c1LW1YQm

— CSIRO (@CSIRO) May 28, 2020

Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy"

Now available free online: Anscombe’s classic “Modern Moral Philosophy,” featuring such zingers as…https://t.co/sGRdApeVrk pic.twitter.com/3MIOXqtdOr

— Kieran Setiya (@KieranSetiya) May 28, 2020

Pentin Interview with Seewald

"I was also unaware that Ratzinger’s role in the Second Vatican Council isn't marginal but enormously significant. He himself always played it down, but alongside Cardinal [Josef] Frings, he was basically the definitive Vatican spin doctor" — Peter Seewald https://t.co/aOyYn1FFsB

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) May 28, 2020

Peter Seewald’s ‘Spiritual and Historical Journey’ With the Pope Emeritus https://t.co/aOyYn1FFsB #BenedictXVI #PopeEmeritus @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) May 28, 2020

NCReg

You mention that relations between Benedict and Pope Francis are good, but there are some Catholics who wish that Benedict had not resigned, who contend that he would never agree with some of the decisions of this pontificate. What do you say to this view?

The former and the current pope have different temperaments, different charismas, and they each have their own way of exercising the office. We see from the popes of previous centuries that a more intellectual pontiff is usually followed by a more emotional one. That was never a disadvantage. Undoubtedly, there can be different views between Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. But that does not matter. The pope is the pope.

Ratzinger promised obedience to his successor before he even knew who would follow in his footsteps, and he has been scrupulously careful all these years to first of all ensure that no accusation of interference could arise. Many of the later questions I asked him, for example, he refused to answer. One answer, he said, would “inevitably constitute interference in the work of the present Pope. Anything that goes in that direction I must, and wish to, avoid.” Moreover, in my book he literally says: “The personal friendship with Pope Francis has not only remained, but has grown.”

Understandably, besides his loyalty and obedience, Ratzinger would never openly rebuke or question Bergoglio because of the confusion and scandal that would result.

The problem, though, is not this actually happening, but the ultramontanist monarchical conceptions of the papacy that would make such an act scandalous.

What's the Patriarch of Rome Going to Do About It?

This, despite @Pontifex writing a letter to the German church warning of the limitations of their “synodal way”.#CatholicTwitter https://t.co/LOQabdKrDI

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) May 28, 2020

Two on the Mass

A Warranted Claim?

Public Orthodoxy: THE EUCHARIST, ITS PHYSICAL ELEMENTS, AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY by Hermina Nedelescu

The Eucharist, Its Physical Elements, and Molecular Biology https://t.co/efLz9GLU75

— Fordham OCSC (@FordhamOrthodox) May 27, 2020

The second misconception is the idea that viruses themselves cannot be transmitted via the administration of Holy Communion, which is scientifically incorrect.

The moral and scientific considerations presented by the essay are fine, but where are the studies giving evidence to this claim? Making a definitive claim like this requires actual science, not guesswork. So where are the comparative studies, not with viruses in general but COVID-19 specifically? Otherwise this seems like overstating one's case in order to yield a desirable conclusion.

One can draw a probable conclusion or precept based on possibilities and our ignorance and the law of charity - those are sufficient.

Doctor of... the Patriarchate of Rome

Naming "Doctors of the Church" is part of Rome's pretensions which should be dropped for the sake of ecumenism and reconciliation.

While Newman has been declared a saint of the Catholic Church, the question remains as to whether he will be declared a Doctor of the Church:https://t.co/tdCG0IgQKg

— Newman Institute (@NewmanStudies) May 27, 2020

Pope Francis may say he is impatient, but he doesn't have the theological skill to advance the dialogue with the other Apostolic Churches, nor does he have a plan for Protestants, especially those who are more traditional. Is he willing to explicitly set limits to what constitutes "legitimate diversity"? I doubt it.

Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of “Ut Unum Sint” (“That all may be one,”) by reaffirming the church’s “irrevocable” commitment to work for Christian unity among the world’s roughly 2.3 billion Christians. @gerryorome reports:https://t.co/iH9SBi5RdV

— America Magazine (@americamag) May 27, 2020

A Development at Bose

Enzo Bianchi required to leave the monastery of Bose
The Vatican Secretariat of State informs the Monastic Community of Bose about the results of the recent Apostolic Visitation. - Vatican Newshttps://t.co/dM4JGJqhIL

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) May 27, 2020

Sandro Magister: “Rigid, Cold, Misguided.” That’s How the Monastery of Bose Thanks Its Founder

Derya Little Interviews Dr. Alan Fimister and Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P on Their Book Integralism

Her podcast.

"Yes"

1 Corinthians 11

AFR

Will listen to see if he hedges, especially on 1 Corinthians 11:17.

Dr. Jeannie Constantinou on Church Canons

May be questionable...