Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A Severe Lacuna
The Church’s history has not been, as commanded in John's Gospel, a record of a united community of love ushering in the kingdom of God & thereby transforming the world as a whole in an enduring way. Its history is much more mixed... --Brad Gregoryhttps://t.co/6RUnreDfJX
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 3, 2020
Existential Thomism or Thomistic Existentialism?
John Brungardt has a new essay on Thomistica on Existential Thomism:https://t.co/EnsqzI13TU
— thomistica.net (@thomistica) July 14, 2020
Thomistica.net
Bishop Barron on Vatican II
Friends, in this series of brief reflections on Vatican II and the Church, I discuss the actual purpose of the council. In its missionary focus, the Church’s gates have been opened to let the beauty and holiness of the Church out into the world. https://t.co/s7EOVzGMBx
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 14, 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020
Sunday, July 12, 2020
St. Paisios the Athonite
Today we celebrate Saint Paisios the Athonite!
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) July 12, 2020
We made a 40+ minute documentary on his life a few years ago!
enjoy and lets us know what you think of it!!https://t.co/EfD7KUo3Wk
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Dom Prosper Guéranger
How One Monk Began Rebuilding the West (essay by R. Jared Staudt) https://t.co/y2YmSeAais
— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) July 11, 2020
What will be left of Solesmes in 100 years?
For the Feast of St. Benedict on the New Roman Calendar
On Saint Benedict (remarks by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) https://t.co/ZgO4CufJHK
— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) July 11, 2020
St. Benedict and the Spirit of the Council https://t.co/g44UBD2JIn
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) July 11, 2020
CWR Dispatch: The original vision and attraction of Saint Benedict by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Benedict’s dream of communities of holy men became the motive force for a Christendom to replace the corrupt and desiccated old Rome.
A Discussion of Usury
New Episode!
— Catholic Economics Podcast (@CatholicEcon) July 10, 2020
Responding to Critics on Usury | Ep 55
YouTube: https://t.co/9tLyKRFzMn
Audio: https://t.co/TyAqVlodgU
Friday, July 10, 2020
St. Sophrony
Tomorrow is the first official feast of St Sophrony the hesychast and theologian of Essex. I don't know why but I really feel a subtle, strong joy.
— Aurelian Iftimiu (@AurelianNicolae) July 10, 2020
St Sophrony, pray for us! pic.twitter.com/5ycsZxbQvE
Holy monks should be venerated. But I have to ask, given certain developments within Greek Orthodoxy in the US -- do the Greeks have a crisis of holiness among the laity? Has activism replaced holiness? Who was the last lay person recognized as being worth of veneration by the Greeks? Are the monastics all they have? (And not even their "secular" clery, including their bishops who were once monastic, qualify?)
Hagia Sophia Declared a Mosque Hours After Court Ruling https://t.co/NUpqM63oht @NCRegister
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 10, 2020
Thursday, July 09, 2020
Leaving Boston?
Romanus Cessario, O.P., to occupy the Adam Cardinal Maida Chair of Theology - Ave Maria University awarded the Adam Cardinal Maida Chair of Theology to the Reverend Romanus Cessario, O.P. and will be teaching graduate theology courses for the... https://t.co/ovt7X2aD16
— AMU Grad. Theology (@AMUGradTheology) July 9, 2020
Alan Fimister Responds to Plaza's Review of Integralism
"political order it describes might be attained. The first of these assumptions is entirely false; the second entirely misses the point of the book."https://t.co/pBeZ7ld3GK
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) July 9, 2020
Reality Journal
Luis de Molina, Latin Integralist
A new translation from The Josias, with an introductory note addressing some recent confusions. https://t.co/KCPmnNBVuV
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) July 8, 2020
Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Glad to say I've recieved a first print of my new book 'Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights'. Indebted to @samuelmoyn for his foreword and guidance, & to @hmtennapel & @smullallylaw for their endorsements. Available 5th March. @CUP_Law @IrishCentreHRhttps://t.co/9yor8YOgbn pic.twitter.com/glvjOoA445
— Leonard 'Emperor of Teaching' Taylor (@leonsaviour) February 24, 2020
Cambridge University Press
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
More on Co-Responsibility
Join us Wed., July 8, 3:30–4:45pm EDT for this seminar focused on "Co-Responsibility for Care of the Vulnerable." @jessfkeating is hosting; @JohnCavadini, @CCamosy, & Margie Pfeil are speaking.
— Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D. (@leodelo2) July 8, 2020
This seminar is FREE but registration is required: https://t.co/mk96Xb56gg https://t.co/PTCZfunO7X
The Will as Rational Appetite
A new episode of Sed Contra is now available. Join Drs. William Diem, @MDugandzic, @thomaesplendor, and @FrDylanSchrader as they discuss whether the will always chooses the good that it perceives to be higher. https://t.co/xS3epiY2XN
— The Sacra Doctrina Project (@sacradoctrina) July 7, 2020
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism is ancient. People still practice it. This is a story of returning to its origins. https://t.co/tQSpJFaFxe
— s.e. smith (@sesmith) July 3, 2020
Sovereignty RIP by Don Herzog
My review/symposium contribution for Don Herzog's new book, "Sovereignty RIP." https://t.co/74uPMaD43W
— Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) July 6, 2020
EJIL: Talk
Global Byzantium at Ankara
"Global Byzantium at Ankara" series of Zoom-talks coming up on Friday 10, 17, and 24 July at 7pm Istanbul / 12pm EST, with lots of great speakers on timely topics! See link --> https://t.co/2x0NmGG96m pic.twitter.com/VSPAJ5RDYR
— Jordan Pickett (@jordantpickett) July 6, 2020
Monday, July 06, 2020
Kwasniewski on "Mysterium Fidei"
For centuries, going back into the mists of time, the priest has said the words “Mysterium fidei” in the midst of the words of consecration whispered over the chalice. These words powerfully evoke the irruption or inbreaking of God into our midst in this unfathomable Sacrament. The consecration of the wine completes the signification of the sacrifice of the Cross, the moment when our High Priest obtained for us eternal redemption (cf. Heb 9:12), the re-presentation of which, together with the application of its fruits, is the very purpose of the Mass.and
Even if the words mysterium fidei are not necessary for signifying transubstantiation (and thus, the consecration can be “effective,” and the Mass “valid,” without them), the removal of the phrase from its age-old position exudes the attitude: nothing is sacred.Does this use of "mysterium fidei" match what St. Paul means by the Mystery, Christ becoming Incarnate so that we may be incorporated in Him? If that is what St. Paul meant, then why would "mysterium fidei" be used before anyone had actually received Holy Communion?
HAGIA SOPHIA: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS by Phil Dorroll
HAGIA SOPHIA: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS by Phil Dorroll https://t.co/ZE8CU3FNsh via @OrthoDialogue
— Orthodoxy in Dialogue (@OrthoDialogue) July 6, 2020
Progressives within Greek Orthodoxy?
A New Explanation
EL EXTRAÑO CASO DE LA RENUNCIA DE BENEDICTO. UNA NUEVA EXPLICACIÓN. https://t.co/29WIGXpkrC
— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) July 6, 2020
Saturday, July 04, 2020
Friday, July 03, 2020
I See the Word Liturgy in the Title
1200+ people have watched Sarah Hamilton's RHS lecture “Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred Places c. 900-1100"! On the blog now we present the lecture & a written Q&A as a permanent resource: #medievaltwitter #twitterstorians @exetercliohttps://t.co/Qox6Wb5m5q pic.twitter.com/jZVaHza0cI
— Royal Historical Society (@RoyalHistSoc) June 18, 2020
Personnel et Societe
Here we go. Getting that Laval School gnosis. pic.twitter.com/TixNR6LwS2
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) July 3, 2020
Thursday, July 02, 2020
A Response to Latin Trads
CLJ
Confessions of a Post-'Rad Trad' Millennial: The Perfect Sacrifice https://t.co/pfcoUypne4 #wednesdaymorning #CatholicTwitter #WednesdayWisdom #Catholic #religion #theology
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 1, 2020
Shaun Blanchard on the History Behind Vatican I
The Twists and Turns That Led to the First Vatican Council https://t.co/yQQI6ntZ4K #wednesdaymorning #CatholicTwitter #WednesdayWisdom #Catholic #religion #theology— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 1, 2020
Shaun Blanchard is one of the most interesting young Catholic theologians in North America. I am proud to call him my student. Here a new piece of his: #Catholic #CatholicTwitter https://t.co/TEDnApD3cw— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) July 1, 2020
This is more a history essay than a theological one; I presume the author is a Latin and so is unable to critically evaluate Rome's claims regarding the authority of the pope. Certainly the claims of hours
Isdiction have been recognized as being serious by the Eastern Orthodox for quite some time, and rejected as not being of Apostolic Tradition.
JD Flynn on the Latin Problem Who Is Archbishop Viganò
Enough already.https://t.co/p0pWS2A4rm— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 1, 2020
To be sure, few theologians or bishops would argue that Vatican II’s documents are above reproach, in terms of their style, their language, or their presentation of the faith. And scholars continue to disagree about how to interpret some key texts of the council. But accepting the legitimacy and authority of the Second Vatican Council is a necessary component of maintaining communion with the Church herself.
Latins can go on believing Vatican II was an ecumenical council; they need a Divine Rebuke.
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
Eternal Memory
The older brother of Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger has died at 96
— Latin Mass Society (@latinmassuk) July 1, 2020
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger
January 15, 1924 - July 01, 2020
Requiescat in pace pic.twitter.com/1DmwdMFpuB
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger Dies at 96 https://t.co/VYpcx2Hk9Q @NCRegister
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 1, 2020
More from Milbank on Empire
Thanks very much for this. Responses: I think no easy line between supposed organicism of states and artificiality of empire. China is historically an empire and organic. Roman Empire had a shared ‘organic’ culture. In some ways empires more than states put culture first. https://t.co/2iH95pguL0
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 1, 2020
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Scotism
The seduction of the subtle doctor. #DunsScotus pic.twitter.com/kGTR3wLQog
— Ryan Haecker (@RyanHaecker) June 30, 2020
The Sun
.@NASA blows us away once again. https://t.co/uTQOk1E8VI
— Thrillist (@Thrillist) June 30, 2020
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
CLJ
Our Enemy Is Turned Into a Friend
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 30, 2020
by @Vermeullarmine via @gjpappin &@ND_EthicsCenter https://t.co/GIsPdKOme6
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
Monday, June 29, 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
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Friday, June 26, 2020
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.
— University of Dallas (@UofDallas) June 26, 2020
You don't want to miss this: https://t.co/2h3HvFGaCd pic.twitter.com/0E4bXjVRHD
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
Thursday, June 25, 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
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Milbank on Empire
Some helpful and provocative theses on empire by @johnmilbank3 here: https://t.co/nEWHtLmbds.
— The Fudgelist (@thefudgelist) June 24, 2020
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
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
A Perspective on the Challenge for the Chalcedonian Orthodox
- Archpriest Fr. Peter Heers; interview with Herman Middleton
Monday, June 22, 2020
More on "Co-Responsibility"
"Co-Responsibility: What It Means for Parishes and the People of God"
— Parish Success Group (@ParishSuccess) June 17, 2020
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
Thomas Royen
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
Sunday, June 21, 2020
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
Saturday, June 20, 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:
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 20, 2020
The temporal power (emperor, kings, presidents, prime and other ministers, parliaments, and courts of law) exists to promote man’s temporal
Europa
Beneath Europa’s icy surface is an ocean at least 60 km (40 miles) deep
— latest in space (@latestinspace) June 20, 2020
The deepest ocean on Earth is only 11 km (6.8 miles) deep! Let that sink in 🙃#spacepic.twitter.com/HRlUdUIuBZ
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
Friday, June 19, 2020
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
— 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.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.
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.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
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
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
Wednesday, June 17, 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
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
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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
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
Monday, June 15, 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
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
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Christian Platonism: A History
CHRISTIAN PLATONISM: A HISTORY
— Alexander JB Hampton 🦉 (@ajbhampton) June 13, 2020
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
Cambridge University Press
Related:
Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
The Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook
Platonic Cabbalism in Cambridge Platonism
Friday, June 12, 2020
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.
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
Two important articles on Catholicism and phenomenology in light of Edward Baring's book "Converts to the Real."
— Genealogies of Modernity (@GenofMod) June 12, 2020
@HumbGonzGonzalez in @GenofMod and Michael Gubser in @ChurchLifeND
Read them both. #Philosophy https://t.co/932U9Hs8Wxhttps://t.co/uL0NC4uAi9
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
— SophiaInsPress (@SophiaInsPress) June 3, 2020
Details: https://t.co/pw3u0sZnbQ#papacy #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Cardinals pic.twitter.com/JzYWHAMucy
Sophia Institute Press
Thursday, June 11, 2020
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.
— Berkley Center (@GUberkleycenter) June 11, 2020
Watch live: https://t.co/KxCnU77kNI
Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance and Catholic Reform.
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