An Initiation Which Should Have Been Completed When They Were Much Younger

Friends, it was a privilege for me today to preside at the sacrament of Confirmation, which took place at the Santa Clara Parish in Oxnard. Join me in praying for an increase in faith, hope, and charity for these fully initiated Catholics! pic.twitter.com/zDkH9UTsp1

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) August 8, 2020

Charles Péguy

"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics," the French Catholic poet said. What can that mean for an Age of Disenchantment? https://t.co/tgligSZQGw

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 7, 2020

AmConMag

Recep Maraşlı on the Assyrians

"Assyrians are the nation that has lost the most territory in the Middle East. Throughout history, they have experienced the most dreadful massacres and genocides. They have severely suffered from persecution as a result of Islam’s expansion by the sword." https://t.co/LddyYEWMkP

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 7, 2020

AmConMag

St. Paisios on Devotion to the Theotokos

'Hold onto the robe of our Holy Lady Theotokos as tightly as you can, and She will help you. May the Mother of God, the gentle and caring Mother of the whole world, protect you and the whole world.'
St Paisios the Athonite.#StElisabethConvent #obitelminsk #belarus #orthodox #god pic.twitter.com/j2CcM9w0Cn

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) August 7, 2020

Hiroshima and the Transfiguration

Christian Roy's second wonderful article for The Symbolic World, looking at Hiroshima and the Transfiguration. https://t.co/0DqxIromuQ

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 7, 2020

Memory Eternal!

Fr Boris Bobrinskoy, one of the last of the generation of great Russian émigré theologians--of the era of Meyendorff, Schmemann, & Florovsky--fell asleep in the Lord Thurs. Born in 1925, He served as dean of St Sergius in Paris & authored several SVS Press books. Memory Eternal! pic.twitter.com/Gp5ebpR8uC

— SVS Press (@SVSPress) August 7, 2020

One of the most prominent Orthodox theologians in the West, Father Boris Bobrinskoy, passed away yesterday, August 6, 2020#orthodox_times

https://t.co/SKYZrCCLQo

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 7, 2020

The State of German Theology

Präzise in der Argumentation, detailliert in der Beschreibung, zutreffend auf die Erfahrungswerte: Der @ulrichlehner konstatiert einen bemitleidenswerten Zustand der deutschen #Theologie an Universitäten. Danke für diese Offenheit. 👏

via @CNAdeutsch https://t.co/cC3vudmxOn

— Moritz Windegger (@moritzwindegger) August 7, 2020

On the lost luster of German #theology and its intrigues: #CatholicChurch #Catholic https://t.co/AYmXhtHcV5 via @CNAdeutsch

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) August 7, 2020

Etymology as Philosophy

A wonderful figura etymologica. And one with an interesting history... https://t.co/H0oFlNeGCo

— Flavius Clemens Grammaticus (@flaviusclemens) August 6, 2020

the whole thread

Festal Vespers, Transfiguration

Vatican II Still Getting Defended

Think Vatican II is uniquely controversial?

The Council of Chalcedon was debated for centuries, a theologian told CNA, and one word used in the Council of Nicea was a source of serious scandal.https://t.co/uhuXWpDwgU

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) August 5, 2020

CNA

I suppose we won't see an end to these any time soon.

It Will Probably Do Well in a Niche Market

Cardinal Schuster’s Masterpiece Back in Print for the First Time in Nearly a Century https://t.co/qQu9i61WYJ pic.twitter.com/SMwNxxKuSR

— NLM (@NLMblog) August 5, 2020

NLM

Fr. Joseph Kentenich

Magister: The Founder of Schönstatt Was Never Rehabilitated. This Letter From Ratzinger Is Proof

Links in German:
Exklusiv: Dokumente bezichtigen Pater Kentenich des sexuellen Missbrauchs
Vorwürfe gegen Kentenich: "Jetzt nicht mehr schweigen"
Ratzinger: Kentenich wurde nicht rehabilitiert
Ratzinger-Brief aufgetaucht: Pater Kentenich nie rehabilitiert worden

Related:
German bishop appoints committee to reevaluate beatification process of Schoenstatt founder

New Mars Rover

NASA Launches New Rover To Mars To Search For Signs Of Ancient Life https://t.co/N6CL69kW2J

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 30, 2020

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Did you know that the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, edited by Andrew Louth, will include more than 40 new & revised entries by Sheptytsky Institute associates?https://t.co/jKAJUcSI5x@OED @PatBritti @saintjudeshrine @christinkallama @Ugcc_teoficat @archtoronto pic.twitter.com/HuvJqihTNt

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 3, 2020

A Print of a Drawing by Jonathan Pageau

To those of you hoping for a print of St-Kevin of Glengalough, here it is. https://t.co/sopgznSAlw pic.twitter.com/rHSIXXSEah

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 3, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Original Sin? Guilt? Neither?

Eastern Christian Books: Original Sin? Guilt? Neither?

IVP Academic: Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views, eds. J. B. Stump and Chad Meister

A Moral Theologian Responds to the Vatican COVID-19 Document

Moral Theologian Criticizes 'Vague' @PontAcadLife COVID-19 Document https://t.co/N4oFMLAc7T @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) August 3, 2020

Another Day, Another Product

Friends, it's an exciting day as we celebrate the launch of my newest book, “Renewing Our Hope: Essays for the New Evangelization” (@CUAPress).

In 17 academic articles, it covers evangelization, the abuse crisis, the priesthood, relativism, and more. https://t.co/qCa3XLgz4B

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) August 3, 2020

May God grant him many years!

Fr. Roman didn’t care what other people said. He did things how they were supposed to be done. Crosses, cassocks, and beards were verboten then. Now, they are the norm. Photo from 1975. #FrRoman50 pic.twitter.com/Cj0v0BMvuU

— Daniel Galadza (@CrunchMasterByz) August 2, 2020

Related:

Fun fact in #CatholicTO history: fifty years ago today at the church where I am a Vicar Bishop Isidore Borecky ordained Fr Roman Galadza, a married man born in Ukraine but displaced by the war, to the priesthood. After the response Bishop did not ordain another married man.

— Fr Alexander Laschuk (@byzkanonist) August 2, 2020

New sample article (PDF)

Liturgical Latinization and Kievan Ecumenism: Losing the Koinê of Koinonia

Peter Galadzahttps://t.co/Zr0wOdgmp2@kinstitute @Koinonia_b @CCityCatholic @ThomasACStout @wcgrimley pic.twitter.com/ru1cncKq0W

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 2, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Orthodox Revivalism in Russia

Eastern Christian Books: Orthodox Revivalism in Russia

Routledge: Orthodox Revivalism in Russia: Driving Forces and Moral Quests by Milena Benovska

Confessional Prayer in Old English

A catch-all confessional prayer in Old English:
'I acknowledge all the injustice which I have ever done in my childhood or in my youth or in my strength or in my old age, which I committed after baptism and with many things greatly angered God.' pic.twitter.com/s38vdzzQI7

— Thijs Porck (@thijsporck) August 2, 2020

Eastern Christian Book: Syria in the Crusades

Eastern Christian Book: Syria in the Crusades

Edinburgh University Press: Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence, ed. Carole Hillenbrand

Interview with Fr. Thomas Crean OP

I did an interview with Suan Sonna at 'Intelligent Conservatism'. https://t.co/kRVZ2b01UR

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) July 31, 2020

"Open Thomism"

I hold to an "open Thomism," one that welcomes Augustinianism, Bonaventurian thought, and contemporary thinkers like Newman, Balthasar, and Ratzinger. To incorporate these frameworks together is to follow a very integrated Catholic spirit. (2/2) https://t.co/ad7Kk05lSb

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 31, 2020

First Open Thomists need to return to Greek, Scripture, and the Fathers...

Fr. Panayioti, "The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian East"

A historic lecture given in Wittenburg Germany on the 500-year anniversary of the protestant reformation. Fr. Panayioti weighs in with a lecture called: The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian Easthttps://t.co/Z2GLtp0rpm pic.twitter.com/mUXY6wDQxk

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) July 30, 2020

Medieval Aristotelian Natural Science

Nice introduction to (Aristotelian) natural science in the medieval periode here.https://t.co/nPbZEZl2Sx https://t.co/2UL58h771E

— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) July 30, 2020

Mary Ann Glendon

"Encountering and over time growing in familiarity with Mary Ann’s openness and her passion for the world, the law, and the life of the mind quite literally changed the direction of my life." https://t.co/buwlVFl3hc

— Harvard Law School (@Harvard_Law) July 29, 2020

The Litany of Humility

In this episode Fr. Gregory and Fr. Bonaventure (unironically) discuss the virtue of humility and the Litany of Humility--a favorite prayer of the last century. What about the virtue of humility is so foundational? Why is this prayer so challenging? pic.twitter.com/ApyMJQFTV4

— Godsplaining (@godsplaining) July 30, 2020

A New One from Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.

Well this should be interesting.... https://t.co/R9KBBsST95

— Fr. Thomas Petri, OP (@PetriOP) July 30, 2020

A Antipope Who Was Venerated as a Saint

NLM

Hmm

My new essay for @PostliberalTho1 will probably make Thomists mad.

But it should make my chief demographic, Catholic homeschooling moms and Lite Lacanians, very happy.

Sub or buy the issue: https://t.co/ysg5o05ReH pic.twitter.com/pB2Q1aodXf

— Marc Barnes (@BadCatholicBlog) July 29, 2020

Because Economics is an "Independent" "Science"

Bad writing by philosophers and theologians about economics is a moral issue. If their views about economics are taken seriously—as they often are in churches and in policy advocacy—they threaten the life-changing effects of free markets for the poor. https://t.co/pmgb7k83oN

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 29, 2020

Public Discourse

John Cavadini on Vatican II

"Viganò’s letter has at least had the virtue of forcing me to emerge from complacency in accepting half-measures in the reception of the Council."

Was Vatican II a Bad Seed?
by @JohnCavadini of @McGrathND https://t.co/W3d5IFlZiG

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 29, 2020

Public Discourse

Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles, Pierre Manent writes. https://t.co/r6jJ9KmC97

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 27, 2020

The beginning of this sentence, as it is written in Greek, follows the form of decrees made by Greek cities: “It has seemed good to the council and to the people. . . .” We can see the extraordinary audacity of this borrowed usage. We can also see which teachings this “council of the apostles,” drawing out the consequences of Pentecost, emphasizes for the manner in which we must understand “the fact of the Church.” This is not the Church copied from the form of the empire, a prideful power among prideful powers; this is the Church scarcely born, under the direction of Peter, an association deprived of everything that gives strength and credit to a human association. It is this Church that declares her power and her right to deliberate and decide as the human city deliberates and decides. In short, the Church has the form and consistency of a city.

Today Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the throne and altar, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles. If the Church today is something other than the sum of our nostalgias—or the print left behind by a “big thing” that we don’t know the meaning of, only we know that it does not concern us any more—it is because she is something other than an association of individuals exercising their right to have opinions. She is a kind of city, a “commanding form” in which a specific work is conducted, a work that operates on the whole man and is proposed to all men—this work that the Church in her weighty but clear language calls “sanctification” and whose source and body dwell in the sacrifice of the Mass.

Sacrifice, Again

From my book, "First Comes Love." May God bless you today! pic.twitter.com/8nAxLctsqj

— Scott Hahn (@DrScottHahn) July 28, 2020

Another Defense of Vatican II

An older essay, from 2012.

CWR: The True Spirit of Vatican II by Douglas Bushman
The main desire of the Council was to reinvigorate the Church’s mission of promoting a fully human life in Jesus Christ.

Fr. Weinandy Replies to Vatican II Critics

Father Thomas Weinandy writing a thoughtful reflection on recent attempts to criticize and blame Vatican II....

https://t.co/q4Pva2k6z8

— Fr. Thomas Petri, OP (@PetriOP) July 27, 2020

ITV

Gerald Russello Reviews Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason by Pierre Manent

City Journal

Natural Law for Modern Times | City Journal https://t.co/nL7cjheOHL

— Allen Mendenhall (@allenmendenhall) July 27, 2020

A Shame

Nothing so eloquently symbolizes the optimism and errors of the Catholic Church in the 1960s than the ruins of the hideous St. Peter's Seminary in Scotland. https://t.co/KLhWVosTKc via @church_militant

— Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) July 27, 2020

A Complaint about the Lack of Collegiality

What Church has Cardinal Marx been in all these years? Since when does the Pope or the Church need a quorum to issue a teaching? This is why the papacy exists: to teach, correct and protect doctrine. Endless synods are not practical or necessary. Thoughts? https://t.co/gHdJ4XnPbi

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) July 27, 2020

Cardinal Kasper aptly defends the Vatican instruction on parish reform against German critics: Reform begins with conversion - and that is something German bishops do not like to hear. Good for Kasper to speak out! https://t.co/0hckgGcoHc #Theology #Vatican #Parish #Catholic

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) July 27, 2020

The Just Price

Here's my latest episode:

Understanding Just Price | Ep 57

YouTube: https://t.co/YhfSCsdm3s
Audio: https://t.co/pVRtDvdkUK

— Catholic Economics Podcast (@CatholicEcon) July 27, 2020

Plotinus as Progress

All this suggests that a Trinitarian ontology will naturally tend to revise Aristotle. Perhaps even more than Aquinas did, though he did revise Aristotelian metaphysics both neoplatonically and for doctrinal reasons. (As neo-Thomism ignores.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

For Plato and Plotinus there are five genres of being, rest, motion, same and other that are really more like transcendentals. In fully real intelligible reality they fully coincide. In material reality they more tend to exclude each other and come in degrees.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Plotinus also questions Aristotle’s distinction of action and making. For him even action as thought moves, goes out from itself, emanates. Augustine and Aquinas’s thought on verbum is jn this lineage. (Lonergan totally wrong here.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Another Interview with Archbishop Viganò

VIGANÒ, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. THE POPE AND THE SODOMITES https://t.co/2udM67vv0F

— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) July 25, 2020

Two Perspectives on Vatican II

The first is from theologian and bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla, as relayed by Sandro Magister: A Bishop and Theologian Breaks the Silence Over the “Banality” of Viganò and Company

In fact, this is the contribution of the most significant statements of this last decade, before, during, and after Pope Benedict's statement in 2005.
We could outline the theme of the legacy in three moves:
a) Vatican II as style: to resume the original way in which the council fathers (which historical studies have made known to us) posed problems with the method and resources that they put to work in order to propose a response to the challenges of their time in the interaction between subjects, textual “corpus,” and new readers;
b) the principle of pastorality: to bring out the originality of Vatican II, its creative ideas and its basic intuitions in the areas of both method and content;
c) the future of the Council: to rediscover the state of invention that characterized that epochal turning point and that today needs, at the beginning of the third millennium, a creative recovery and a new ecclesial pragmatics.

And the following is from Adam DeVille: Vatican II as “chosen trauma” and “chosen glory”.

If nothing else, the decision to be faced by Catholics today is whether we will allow ourselves to manifest the maturity necessary to stop treating Vatican II as either a trauma or a glory and instead to see it as all councils from our past: an event where some of the crooked lines of human history were used by God to write straight the salvation of the world. If He is content to leave some lines askew on the page, some tares and wheat in the fields of the Church until the end of the age (cf. Matt. 13: 24-30), why can we not grant ourselves the same freedom to stop clinging to pseudo-intellectual genealogies helpful to nobody and instead get to work healing today’s myriad crises in Church and world alike?

Even though DeVille is Ukrainian Catholic, he assumes that Vatican II was an ecumenical council, or at least a council of both Roman Catholics and of Eastern Catholics. As far as I'm concerned, even if various Eastern Catholic bishops signed the documents, that does not make Vatican II an ecumenical council, and even the claim that it was a "general" council of the churches in communion with the bishop of Rome is question, given the lack of equal weight given to Eastern perspectives. I see it in content and function as being a synod of the Latin churches in communion with the bishop of Rome, and it needs to be understood carefully: not as an ecumenical council, but as a Latin council with certain pretensions, to be historically situated in the development of the Roman papacy in the second millenium and with reference to the claims of Rome, which go back to the first millenium. It also must be understood with the proximate and not-so-proximate causes that lead up to the council, which explain why Latin bishops and theologians thought some sort of reform was necessary.

A Fireside Chant Chat, Part 3

AFR

A Prayer Service for a Sad Day

Herbert McCabe, O.P. on St. Thomas Aquinas

A Very Short Introduction to Aquinas
by Herbert McCabe, OP

A special thanks to @EMWillette1020 of @BloomsburyBooks for giving me permission to reprint this amazing essay in @ChurchLifeND https://t.co/iyb6YTS5U6

— Artur Sebastian Rosman (@cosmostheinlost) July 24, 2020

A Different Notion of Sacrifice

Friends, the Mass is our joining together with Christ’s selfless sacrifice, the eternal act of praise.

Because of the all-encompassing nature of worship, there is a tight link between liturgy and the transformation of the world.

Watch the full video: https://t.co/vlZyazVzro pic.twitter.com/Lx0hbqCuW5

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 24, 2020

Therefore, highlighting the Mass isn’t an exercise in irrelevant fussiness; it is rather an emphasizing of the public witness of the Church. Watch the video for more.

Watch the video on YouTube: https://t.co/lmPQZTCzEe (2/2)

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 24, 2020

From Charismatic to Chrismation

AFR

A Discussion of Ecclesiology

Armenian Translation of Lost Text of St. Cyril of Alexandria Found and Published

Lost Patristic work of St. Cyril of Alexandria discovered and published in Armeniahttps://t.co/AbqoOljBiE

The work was previously known only in fragments of the Greek original and the Syriac translation. The more complete Medieval Armenian translation was discovered in the M... pic.twitter.com/lKKV7I90MQ

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) July 23, 2020

That Fordham Discussion on Hagia Sophia

Many thanks to everyone who joined @GDemacopoulos @AliceISullivan & @DavidJHudsonJC for today's discussion-- Hagia Sophia: Caught Between East and West. Watch our YoutTube Channel for the video. https://t.co/urTVl3PNmG

— Fordham Center on Religion and Culture (@CRCfordham) July 23, 2020

A Discussion of Hagia Sophia

AFR - FB video

Mother Maria

The Structure of Divine Liturgy

AFR

Life Principles of Grand Duchess Elizabeth

Can't Say Scholastics Are Not Consistent

"Now religion... is a virtue whereby a man offers something to the service and worship of God. Wherefore those are called religious antonomastically, who give themselves up entirely to the divine service, as offering a holocaust to God. pic.twitter.com/FAKHMaqF6Q

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) July 22, 2020

Leonine Institute Policy Paper on Usury

Here is our latest Policy Paper

Usury & Interest: Correcting Modern Errorshttps://t.co/AVFZ5zzS7Y

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) July 22, 2020

An Integralist Response to Dante

Dante is correct to state that temporal authority does not flow from the Church per se but rather comes directly from God. However, the lower must be subsumed or elevated into the higher. The natural end now serves the supernatural. The passions obey the intellect.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020

If it is true that the Church is the head of the City of God on earth, then all lesser societies are subject to that highest one, just as it is Her mission to baptize all legitimate societies that they may come together with the Church to form the triumphant Heavenly City.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020

A Common Vocation

Clearly, the "Tridentine" church hd nothing to say about the vocation of all Christians to holiness ... [text from 1681 - not de Sales!] #Earlymodern #theology pic.twitter.com/0fdA49zwbL

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) July 22, 2020

Latins Will Throw Their Ecclesiological Opinion Around

Friends, since the Church’s tradition includes Vatican II, it's therefore impossible to repudiate this council and claim to be a faithful traditionalist. There's nothing traditional about rejecting an ecumenical council.

Watch the full video on YouTube: https://t.co/l0ZSEOeuzr pic.twitter.com/tGRiC96mln

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 22, 2020

Dr. David Bradshaw: "The Cappadocian Fathers as Founders of Byzantine Thought"

Protecting Veil

DB Hart Responds to Feser's Review of His Book

The Edward Feser Algorithm (How to Review a Book You Have Not Read) | Eclectic Orthodoxy https://t.co/98eWAOghJU

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 21, 2020

Eclectic Orthodoxy

Academic Discussion of Law

Has rights talk exceeded its bounds? Is contract law bourgeois? Do we need a separate right of non-discrimination? What is legitimacy? Is international law truly law?

Some questions addressed at our launch of the Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law last week. https://t.co/HL2RJXYiV3

— John Tasioulas (@JTasioulas) July 21, 2020

A Sample Article from Logos

New sample article (PDF)

How Did the Union of Florence Influence the Union of Brest?

Alexander Baranhttps://t.co/b6JLO5ri4A@GregorySMcMuray @EternalSean @byzantinepower @MarkNanneman @BillTooke @AllanRuhl @AUniate @toplis_percy @AveCristoRey @Wandi_Star pic.twitter.com/qeghdlWYef

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) July 20, 2020

Peter Kwasniewski on the Minor Options of the EF

NLM

Fordham Orthodox to Discuss Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sofia: Caught Between East & West. Join the discussion w/ @GDemacopoulos @FordhamOrthodox, @AliceISullivan @UmichArtHist & @DavidJHudsonJC this Th. 7/23/20, 12:00p.m. Info & Register: https://t.co/kcjsv5Btci pic.twitter.com/ThG21cqVU1

— Fordham Center on Religion and Culture (@CRCfordham) July 20, 2020

True Light Podcast Episode 12

Exploring Our Liturgical Roots to Revive Today’s Church by Fr. Deacon Daniel Galadza

3rd Antiphon (The Beatitudes). Sermon on the Mount.

Fr. Brian Daley, S.J., "Breathing Unity: Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue Today and its Promise for the Eastern Catholic Churches"

Feast of St Elisabeth the New Martyr. Divine Liturgy

St. Elisabeth the New Martyr, Pray for Us!

What if...

Constance and Florence aren't ecumenical either?

Sandro Magister: The “Fake News” of Viganò and Company. Unmasked by a Cardinal

Roberto De Mattei responds.

And today:
Rorate Caeli: 150th Anniversary of the Dogmatic Constitution PASTOR ÆTERNUS (Vatican I): Petrine Primacy, Infallibility, and the Strict Limits of Papal Authority

Gladden Pappin, "Four Futures: The Catholic Church in America"

Come for the Lord of the World scenario of doom, stay for the Dawn of All triumph—& the critique of anti-Vatican/neo-Americanist Catholicism.

My @ThomisticInst talk “Four Futures: The Catholic Church in America” at @SMU is now up on SoundCloud https://t.co/3Mk8wG4VLI

— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) July 17, 2020

Soundcloud: The Thomistic Institute

Ecumenical Patriarch in Saint Marina of Imbros Castle

Patriarchal Chorostasia at the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St Marina the Great Martyr in #Imbros#orthodox_times @EcuPatriarch https://t.co/iYy5mXk0HH

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) July 17, 2020

Video?

Orthodox Times

From a few days ago...
Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης στην Ιερά Μονή Παντοκράτορος

1η Συναυλία Βυζαντινής Μουσικής Νέος Κόσμος 10

1η Συναυλία Βυζαντινής Μουσικής Νέος Κόσμος 10

Transcendent. Daniel Dumitrică pic.twitter.com/AsduaUkxSQ

— Ciarán Ó Murchadha (@DefenceOrthodox) July 8, 2020

Sermon by Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok for the Feast of St. Elisabeth the New Martyr

SAINT ELISABETH FEAST DAY SERMON
On the 18th of July, we celebrate our Convent's Patron Saint Feast and commemorate the Holy Royal Martyr Grand Duchess Elisabeth.
To read or listen to the full sermon by Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok: https://t.co/XoRH6je6ug#StElisabethConvent pic.twitter.com/kR6e35h2mR

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) July 17, 2020

Sermons on the Spiritual Life by St. Philaret of Moscow

Patristic Nectar Publications is pleased to present our first book publication: 'Sermons on the Spiritual Life' by St. Philaret of Moscow! Translation by Dn. Nicholas Kotar. https://t.co/3uI31QPKPi pic.twitter.com/TWTilt0UvZ

— Patristic Nectar (@PatristicNectar) June 25, 2020

A Form of Latin Legalism?

We are pleased to offer our readers first English translation of the General Rubrics of the Missal promulgated by Pope Clement VIII, which remained in force until the reign of John XXIII. https://t.co/bIKrCdSLLX

— Canticum Salomonis (@Polignacus) July 17, 2020

Is there a connection between the Latin emphasis on rubrics and their conception of worship and sacrifice?

Draft Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights

The Glendon Commission (the U.S. Dept. of State Commission on Unalienable Rights, chaired by the magisterial legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School) has issued its Report. It re-roots human rights discourse in the principles of 1776 and 1948.https://t.co/dN9j2yH8Za

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 17, 2020

The Moral Economy by Samuel Bowles

Yale: The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

This is a good book and even talks about “the Aristotelian legislator” but it made me wish classical philosophical language about motivation were more readily available to economists. It’s a book about the relation between reason, desire, and thumos. pic.twitter.com/qPylQpO5yd

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) July 16, 2020

Why Should Roman Catholics Care About the "Mosquing" of Hagia Sophia

CWR Dispatch: The “Mosquing” of Hagia Sophia: Why should Catholics care? by Adam A. J. DeVille
Catholics should have a greater awareness of Eastern Orthodoxy for at least three reasons.

Unalienable Rights

The always insightful Walter Russell Mead on the Glendon Commission's report on Unalienable Rights, which was issued today: https://t.co/wt6CHliXxn via @WSJ

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 17, 2020

Periphyseon

Attention ACS followers! This is a game-changer: Dumbarton Oaks is reprinting the translation of John Scotus Eriugena's _Periphyseon_, a text standing at the crossroads of the thought of Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, & the Carolingian Latin tradition. Details below 👇 https://t.co/kWKdROWnvB

— American Cusanus Society (@CusanusSociety) July 15, 2020

Daniel Strand on Latin Integralism

Providence: Catholic Integralism Should Not Be Dismissed by Daniel Strand

Strand spends much of the essay responding to David French; I would have rather read Strand's own response to Latin integralists.

The Patronal Feast of SVOTS

We wish you a most blessed feast of our patron, Great Prince Vladimir, Enlightener of the Russian Lands, and we seek his fervent intercession for you and our Seminary! pic.twitter.com/lHxkYE3t69

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (@stvlads) July 15, 2020

The Just Price

Check out our latest Position Paper!

Contributor Anthony M. Gentile (@GentileNJ) explains the concept of the Just Price, a fundamental tenet of Catholic Social Teachinghttps://t.co/jV6IniX9HP

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) July 15, 2020

Related:

30 minutes!https://t.co/lfmlmh46FJ

— Catholic Economics Podcast (@CatholicEcon) July 1, 2020

St. Bonaventure

Today is the feast of #StBonaventure, the 13th-c. Italian Franciscan scholar and professor, colleague of Aquinas, Minister General of the Franciscans, Cardinal Bishop of Albano, and Doctor of the Church. His philosophy and theology point to Christ as the source of all knowledge. pic.twitter.com/tvHCna3L6j

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) July 15, 2020

More from Bishop Barron's Series This week

Others believe that the Church should turn backward and inward on itself. But Vatican II avoids both extremes by emphasizing both doctrinal stability and a robust missionary zeal. https://t.co/oeyi74dbZi (2/2)

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 15, 2020

Bissera Pentcheva Interview on Hagia Sophia

Cappella Romana

Todor Mitrović on the Canons of Iconography

Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4

On Catholic Integralism: An Introduction

A Severe Lacuna

No discussion of the schisms affecting the Church in the first millenium and after. (First between the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Churches and those with the Church of the East, and then the schism between the Chalcedonian Churches of "East" and "West.") The discussion of the Protestants is very much slanted towards a Latin pov.

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

Quo Primum

NLM

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

Reconquest: Integralism & the Common Good of the Community w/ Fr. Thomas Crean, OP

St. Paisios the Athonite

Today we celebrate Saint Paisios the Athonite!
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

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) July 12, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Herbert McCabe's Legacy

Eastern Christian Books: Herbert McCabe's Legacy

Wipf and Stock/Cascade

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?