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While the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said baptisms administered according to the “We baptize” formula are invalid, another Vatican congregation had previously given advice to the contrary.https://t.co/nilZ8qZVCw

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) September 16, 2020

The Wandering Holy Man

NEW TEXTS OUT NOW: The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine

By Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze
Published by @ucpress https://t.co/GuG9iSSy0D pic.twitter.com/ZfsxUs9SYO

— Jadaliyya (@jadaliyya) September 16, 2020

UC Press: The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine by Johannes Hahn (Editor), Volker Menze (Editor)

OPChant

Wonderful story about the surprising success of two Dominican brothers in Switzerland who teach Gregorian Chant via @YouTube. https://t.co/fdVZpnIR8l

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) September 16, 2020

the Youtube channel

Msgr. Ronald Knox on the Mass as a Sacrifice

Ronald Knox on the Mass as sacrifice https://t.co/RqfpgT8xVF

— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) September 16, 2020

HPR

What Does a Just World Look Like? Part I.

Cardinal Sarah's Letter to Latin Bishops

Full text of Cardinal Sarah’s letter to bishops 'Let us return to the Eucharist with joy' https://t.co/3L4x2RJLHv via @cnalive

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 15, 2020

David Fagerberg Lecture on September 26

Dr. David Fagerberg of @NotreDame will be joining @LiturgySociety and the Center for Liturgy (@McGrathND) via Zoom on September 26, 2020 for a lecture on his recent book Liturgical Mysticism by @EmmausBooks: https://t.co/D4DQE7UMPR

— Timothy P. O'Malley (@timothypomalley) September 15, 2020

And Some Would Hold This Against Her?

as a sign of imperfection...

“Perhaps someone will say [of Mary]: “Had she not known before that he would not die?” Undoubtedly. “Did she not expect him to rise again at once?” Surely. “And still she grieved over her crucified Son?” Intensely.” —St. Bernard pic.twitter.com/Ax2JsMLo39

— Fr. David Paternostro, SJ (@DavidPaternostr) September 15, 2020

A Manual for Creating Atheists

Friends, @peterboghossian's wildly popular book, “A Manual for Creating Atheists,” outlines his process of “street epistemology,” which is intended to be a process of anti-evangelization.

On the “Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss his book: https://t.co/osMY3nkghN pic.twitter.com/OXXDp5Ir2E

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) September 14, 2020

Divine Liturgy with Peter George, Part 2

AFR

Part 1 here.

Icons of Sound Project

AFR

Interview with Dr. James Jordan and Sr. Christine Helfrich of Gloriae Dei Cantores

AFR

Network Tribalism at Work?

Seems like at this point the only ones paying attention would be Latin traditionalists.

Archbishop Viganò: Without Vatican II, Destruction Wrought by Revolutions of the 1960s Would Not Have Happened https://t.co/wnU0nTBm0O pic.twitter.com/7loyawXLu8

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 14, 2020

“In days gone by, forbidden books were censored in order to protect the simple ones, whose souls would be poisoned by them; today, what is good is censored, because evil does not tolerate it.” — +Viganò, Sept. 12 interview with @MarcoTosatti https://t.co/wnU0nTBm0O pic.twitter.com/2P8CHwqLH4

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 14, 2020

Aquinas on Conscience

This is a stunning research uncovering and correcting a longstanding (and mostly Jesuit) misreading of Aquinas on conscience. I wonder if @americamag would be willing to publish an essay by Justin Anderson summarizing his research?

Important information, and important formation. https://t.co/67nas8Nlz1

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) September 14, 2020

full episode

Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross

Today we celebrate the elevation of the holy Cross!
On this day The Roman Emperor Heraclius brings back the cross to Constantinople. After a long campaign against the Persians who had captured it from Palestine, the Holy Cross was once again in Christian hands. pic.twitter.com/0Sz5fT5Dgd

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) September 14, 2020

The Cross is proclaimed, and faith in God is confessed and truth prevails in the whole inhabited world#orthodox_times

https://t.co/d6LIeFsAOT

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 14, 2020

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An Interview with Tom Hibbs

President Thomas Hibbs of @UofDallas joins Jeremy for the second episode of Anchored. https://t.co/mzF0ySmuu6

— CLT (@CLT_Exam) September 10, 2020

Pontifical Byzantine Divine Liturgy, 1958

The Pontifical Byzantine Divine Liturgy, 1958

Melkite Catholic Church Collectionhttps://t.co/BgmJDR331zhttps://t.co/ITvpbjaaCq @agenciacatolica @PeterAglione @IanStFrance @GratiaPlena18 @MarysbeenQd @nicklabanca @puertoricojoe @shandajani

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) September 13, 2020

Fr. Anthony Cekada Has Passed

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Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Eastern Christian Books: Ordaining Women in the Orthodox Church

Such an endorsement by David Bentley Hart casts doubts on his personal orthodoxy, as if his dogmatic speculation on universalism wasn't enough. The description provided for the book and the background of some of the contributors render all those who are contributing suspect, even though some (Fr. Andrew Louth?) may be just presenting "the other side" of the argument. Is this something open for discussion? Do any of the Chalcedonian Orthodox clerics make the claim that the ordination of women to the presbyterate and episcopate is beyond the bounds of discussion and possibility? From the reports I have read, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware has capitaulted and embraced the position that it is open to discussion. Are there any Orthodox bishops willing to cut the innovators off from communion? I suspect the Greeks are too weak to do so.

Wipf and Stock: Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice, eds. Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya

Aquinas and Hobbes on Law

Hobbes and Aquinas differed not only concerning human nature but also concerning the nature of law. https://t.co/dn50vSK0xZ pic.twitter.com/n8EX6nabig

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) September 11, 2020

The Public Discourse

Literacy in the Kingdom of Judah

Study confirms widespread literacy in biblical-period kingdom of Judah https://t.co/xfq0HmWPKN. #History

— Kathleen O'Neal Gear (@GearBooks) September 11, 2020

50th Anniversary

Russian Church’s Patriarchal Parishes in North America Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Founding https://t.co/2b0uioZt9w pic.twitter.com/iGtc5aqouC

— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) September 11, 2020

Fr. Peter Heers

LIST OF LINKS to our Online Work
Thanks to St Kosmas Orthodox Christian Education Association for their fervent support of our work. They have a page with a full list of links to our work! Great site! Scroll down for all the links. And share! https://t.co/JI9diCqO2z

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 11, 2020

Interview with Fr. Alexander Laschuk

True Light – A Podcast by the Sheptytsky Institute

Season 3, episode 1 - From Vision into Action - A New Director at MASI

Landon Coleman interviews Fr. Alexander Laschuk. Fr. Alex is the new interim executive director of MASI.https://t.co/E3isHZEWqy#easternchristianpodcast pic.twitter.com/cj39oAdypg

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) September 11, 2020

I'm afraid people are not coming back to churchhttps://t.co/0Yq1b2bpi0

True Light – A Podcast by the Sheptytsky Institute
Season 3, Episode 1

Landon Coleman interviews Fr. Alexander Laschuk (@byzkanonist)#easternchristianity #catholicpodcast

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) September 11, 2020

St. Savas Cathedral

Have you seen our episode on the Basement of St. Savas Cathedral? if you haven't here's the link! This was our first episode and we are looking forward to many more! May St. Savas be with us all! https://t.co/TMGcjwK9MF pic.twitter.com/ZBZOF7A3Wf

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) September 10, 2020

"Good Luck"

Pastors need to internalize the challenge: we cannot simply resume, we must renew https://t.co/7qa8rakgaT

— La Croix Int. (@LaCroixInt) September 9, 2020

Bissera Pentcheva Interview with AFR

Live from Ancient Faith https://t.co/BE0BITG0C3

— Ancient Faith (@ancientfaith) September 10, 2020

More on Latin Integralism

"As Catholics, let’s have the courage to stand not merely for individual choice or for an ephemeral “neutrality”, but for a full-fledged vision of what is really good for individuals and society." – By @niall_gooch https://t.co/ON8ytbND8y

— Catholic Herald (@CatholicHerald) September 8, 2020

An Abuse of the Term "Child of God"

We are made children of God through Christian initiation, and we have no grounds for using that term of anyone who has not been initiated into Christ. To use it to refer to any human being regardless of whether they have been incorporated into Christ is to deviate from the normative usage set by the apostles and Scripture.

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus commands us to love our enemies. It is a Christian conviction that all of that evil is not telling the deepest truth about the enemy.

The deepest truth is that he or she is a child of God, and thus worthy of our love.https://t.co/gl9pSxVWfT pic.twitter.com/JoA3jpXsh9

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) September 10, 2020

Vatican II as a Ressourcement Project

CWR: A Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates by Conor Dugan Why I think there is no better book to help put the Council in context than Robert Royal’s tour-de-force A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

Dugan writes:

But, now, with Vatican II in the dock, Royal’s book takes on increased importance. He helps put the Council in context and to see the trends that were already at work in the Church prior to the Council and that continued after it closed. In particular, his highlighting of the emphasis on nuptial mysticism—a “theme” that “had long existed in the tradition”—prior to the Council is a key insight. His description of the advances—and hiccups—in biblical studies is another. Still another insight is that pre-Conciliar Catholicism was much more disparate than many want to admit. And many of the Conciliar themes were simply the fleshing out of work that predated the Council. Certainly, after reading Royal’s careful study of 20th century Catholicism, one could not claim that “what the Council produced was not remotely in continuity with the past” or that after the Council there was not “the faintest desire to carry on the Catholic religion as existed before,” as one recent commentator on the Vatican II debates recently put it.

Indeed, to accept the thesis that the Council should be rejected requires a rejection not just of the Council itself, but the work of figures such as Guardini, Chenu, Congar, de Lubac, Ratzinger, and Balthasar. Many traditionalists seem to be fine with this move but they should be clear that they are not asking simply for the Council to be declared anathema but much (or most?) of the 20th century Catholic intellectual tradition to be declared anathema as well. This raises the question of to which date the clock should be reset. 1950? 1940? 1910? Earlier?

I don't have a problem with Vatican II being understood primarily as a Ressourcement project of renewal or reform, a project nonetheless affected by other intellectual and "spiritual" trends within the Patriarchate of Rome. But it was a project necessary not for the Church Universal, only the Patriarchate of Rome.

Fr. Robert Imbelli on Vatican II

CWR Dispatch: Christ at the center of the Council by George Weigel
Why has the great promise of Vatican II been frustrated so often?

According to Weigel:

In “No Decapitated Body,” a bracing essay published In the current issue of Nova et Vetera, Father Imbelli develops his argument for a more radically Christ-centered Church, sheds light on a host of current Catholic controversies and concerns, and does so with an authorial calm that nonetheless conveys his passion for Christ and the Gospel. Why has the great promise of Vatican II been frustrated so often? In a word, according to Father Imbelli, because of apostasy: a drastic dissolution of the Christ-centeredness that theology sought to recover in the first half of the 20th century and that the Council affirmed. The greatest of Vatican II’s documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, begins, Imbelli reminds us, with the ringing affirmation, “Christ is the light of the nations.” And the entire Council, he suggests, must be interpreted through the prism of that confession of faith – “In many ways, the Council’s achievement could be read as a prolonged meditation upon the meaning and implications of Saint’s Paul’s confession – ‘For no other foundation can anyone lay that that which has been laid: Jesus Christ’ (1 Cor. 3:11).”

Is there a problem with such a simplistic explanation of the reasons for the council and what happened afterwards? What of Latin churches were Christ is the focus, even if the message is distorted? Imbelli seems to recognize that there are deeper problems with Latin ecclesial culture and praxis:

Father Imbelli explores how this forgetting of Christ shows up in various ways: in liturgy that does not begin from the premise that “the prime agent of the celebration [is] the Head of the Body,” on whom every sacramental act is totally dependent; in a dissecting room approach to the Bible and to preaching that does not convey the living presence of the one who is “the Word” (John 1:1) in the divinely-inspired Word of God; in attempts to set “doctrine” against “pastoral practice.” Certain voices in the Church incorrectly blame all of this on Vatican II. Yet it was the Council that taught that Jesus Christ is the one who acts in Baptism, the Eucharist, and the other sacraments, and it was the Council that insisted on the reality of God’s self-revelation in Scripture. As for the juxtaposition of the “doctrinal” and the “pastoral,” or “truth and mercy,” well, as Father Imbelli reminds us, the Synod of 1985 taught that “it is not licit to separate the pastoral character [of Vatican II] from the doctrinal vigor of the documents.”

The question remains, what is to be done if even a Latin synod could not reform the patriarchate? How many more years do Latins have to wait for the fruits of the council to appear?

Douglas Farrow on Bishop Schneider's and Archbishop Viganò's Objections Regarding Vatican II

Dethroning Christ? The error at the root of the Viganò controversy (Part I)

Part 2

Farrow seems to admit this much:

Now, surely there is nothing wrong with a document promulgated in a political context being on its way to a political rather than an evangelical end, so long as that end is understood to be proximate rather than ultimate. There’s the rub, however. For the Abu Dhabi Declaration seems to be evangelically deficient in a way no political aim can justify. Its call to “come together in the vast space of spiritual, human and shared social values,” and to do so in such as way as to avoid “unproductive discussions,” might reasonably be taken to rule out the very thing Paul was doing on Mars Hill!

But Farrow cannot get beyond the parameters set by Latin ecclesiology, taken by Latins to be dogma:

When we keep this in mind, we can see more easily that to give the answer we ought to give, the answer we must give if we do not intend to be schismatic – the answer that Vatican II was indeed an authentic ecumenical council, engaged in the work of God and of the magisterium of the Church under God – is not to commit ourselves to the untenable notion that its fathers were uniformly faithful or that its documents, despite the flaws of their authors, were themselves essentially flawless.

As a Latin he must accept the claim by Rome that Vatican II is an ecumenical council. Because he must accept that, he must uphold the hermeneutic of continuity, much as Benedict XVI. Part 2 is better in so far as he responds to certain misconceptions (held by some Latin integralists and Latin traditionalists) regarding nature of the Kingship of Christ.

Historicizing Vatican II by Roberto Pertici

One cannot focus just on those proximate years right before Vatican II, if one is going to examine the historical causes of Vatican II. One must look at how the papacy developed in the second millenium and how it reoriented itself after it loss the papal states, and how it dealt with European polities after the loss of Western Christendom. The weakness of the patriarchate of Rome, as witnessed in the life of its churches and its failures in directing secular European polities, must be understood in lack of proper ordering, for which we can find evidence in Church history, Latin theology or dogma, and Roman canon law. The crisis of the patriarchate of Rome was not a sudden development that happened after Vatican II, and it has a longer history that goes back to before Pope Pius X.

Magister: Historicizing Vatican Council II. Here’s How the World of Those Years Influenced the Church

Essays by Fr. Vincent McNabb

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A Dedication to Bessarion

And you can hear a hymn that Cretan cleric, composer, and scribe John Plousiadenos dedicated to Bessarion (in its acrostic) as edited by Ioannis Arvanitis and sung by @cappellaromana here: https://t.co/Mobbjm07lr https://t.co/9PjuuOawcz

— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) September 8, 2020

Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos

Nativity of the Theotokos

Our friend and board member Amy Hogg @AmyHogg20191493 again leads the Psaltic Sisters in a virtual choir project for the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Congratulations and lovely work, everybody! Joyous feast!
https://t.co/bKnKkE4jRr via @YouTube

— S. John Dam. Soc. (@StJohnDamSoc) September 8, 2020

On September 8th we celebrate the birth of our mother the Theotokos! It is also our very own father Panayiotis name day. His grandfather dedicated him to the nativity of the theotokos at his baptism. May Christ bless his work for many years to come!https://t.co/mWK7WLi7L0

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) September 8, 2020

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Does the Theotokos Experience Pain in Heaven?

Mary, the Mother who cared for Jesus, cares with maternal affection and pain also for this wounded world.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) September 8, 2020

Spinning the New Directory for Catechesis

Check out the second episode of our podcast, Echoing Faith Today, in which @BishopBarron joins host Dr. Jem Sullivan for an enriching discussion of the new Directory for Catechesis, emphasizing the link between Revelation and evangelization! https://t.co/FJXZ0ONGZT

— CatholicU Theology and Religious Studies (@CUATheology) September 6, 2020

If such an essential connection between kerygma and catechesis needed to be emphasized again, even though many were writing about it before Vatican II and after, then how is the patriarchate of Rome or the Roman Curia not just spinning its wheels?

St. Photius Greek Orthodox National Shrine

This morning Brother Martin and his mother visited St. Augustine, Florida. While there, they visited the Shrine of St. Photios and made this wonderful video. pic.twitter.com/TIJyyvi9hp

— John Stone (@Johnthemadmonk) September 7, 2020

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Cappella Romana Sings the Holy Wednesday Hymn by Kassia

Since you asked, @cappellaromana has a Kassia recording in post-production. Here is a live performance of her Holy Wednesday hymn as copied in South Italy, which adopted the Constantinopolitan liturgy of the Stoudios monastery https://t.co/tySKIdqNiG

— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) September 7, 2020

Kerygmatic Catechesis?

The English translation of the new General Directory for Catechesis is not out yet, so I can't what it says about "kerygmatic catechesis" but I can guess at the meaning, catechesis that is based on othe kerygma and makes use of the kerygma. But what other sort of catechesis is possible, if it is truly catechesis? Yes, there may be worse or less effective forms of catechesis, especially one that is too based on rationalistic apologetics or neo-scholasticism. 

Directory called ‘fresh, focused tool’ that will ‘enhance’ evangelization 

Bishop Barron:

Barron added: “The directory’s call for a ‘kerygmatic catechesis’ affirms the conference’s (USCCB’s) recent focus on the importance of living as missionary disciples. The authentic proclamation of the Gospel leads to the conversion of hearts and minds, which cannot help but manifest that ‘missionary impulse capable of transforming everything’ with the healing power of the Holy Spirit.”

But what is another bureaucratic paper weight going to do about the fact that the patriarchate of Rome suffers not only from a lack of proper catechesis but also from a lack of a proper reminding of the kerygma, which is to be found not only in Holy Scripture but the Roman rite? What sort of catechesis is possible when it makes no reference to the treasury of the Roman rite, given the discontinuity that exists between the extraordinary form and the ordinary form, and when the people have very little familiarity with it, even if they attend Mass on every Sunday?

The problems plaguing the patriarchate will not be solved by instructions from a central authority if it is not accompanied by other forms, and this is assuming the new General Directory itself is free of problems.

Related:
The Content of the Kerygma - Good News for the World!
What is the Kerygma
The Kerygma for Catholics

A Dominican on the Seven Sacraments

Possibly the best summary of the 7 sacraments. A great video to share with friends and defend the Church’s tradition.https://t.co/v3lxHEPmG2 pic.twitter.com/simhtd1zGK

— OPWest (@opwest) August 30, 2020

More from Archbishop Viganò on Vatican II

VIGANÒ: THERE IS A SUPERDOGMA OF THE VATICAN II. UNTOUCHABLE. https://t.co/uXUnaNrD9L

— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) September 4, 2020

Fallen Failsafes and a Revolutionary Modern Priesthood by Clare McGrath-Merkle

My sincerest thanks to The Regensburg Forum and Dr. Matthew Gaetano for publishing my latest article on the priesthood. https://t.co/U1mKHIWmo9

— Clare McGrath-Merkle, OCDS, DPhil (@Onceandfuturepr) August 23, 2020

Regensburg Forum

Yelle penned an important monograph on the history of the theological debates surrounding the core error underlying Bérulle’s spiritual theology of priesthood: the notion of the holiness of Christ, in which Christ’s human nature is considered to have been made holy by the grace of union with the Word—a mistaken understanding of the communication of idioms. In line with Chalcedon, the properties of Christ’s human nature remained unimpaired, since the hypostatic union changed nothing. If His human nature had been made holy by the grace of union, it would have necessarily changed. Christ, rather, needed habitual grace for His human nature to be raised to the supernatural order.

This error in the understanding of the humanity of Christ (a central meditation for Bérulle’s Oratorians) served as the basis for the holiness and sacerdotal power of Bérulle’s priest. Just as the grace of union made Christ holy and a mediator of religion for Bérulle, so, too, the priest, through the grace of union with Christ, was made mediator of redemption and capable of sacrifice. In this schema, the priest became a mediator in the order of being, a distinction reserved to Christ alone.

Decades after Yelle’s critique, Jacques Maritain best explicated this error and the ongoing influence of some of Bérulle’s key philosophical ideals in his article on the French School, only translated into English in 1997, in a collection of his works. In it, Maritain questioned how it was possible that a great number of churchmen still remained under the French School’s influence despite holding different doctrinal positions. Maritain wrote that the spirituality of French School priests “must consist above all in losing their own subsistence in order to live solely in the Person of Christ, who never ceases to draw them into the unity of the divine Person” (427).

Maritain insisted that Bérulle was seriously mistaken in taking the step from affirming the perfection to which a priest is called, to affirming a perfection of his state of life, making the priest the source of all sanctity in the Church. He quoted Dupuy’s important work on Bérulle and the priesthood, “He [the priest] cannot be defined as a superchristian. For he is not just that. But it is urgent that he be at least that” (190). Dupuy continued, “The priest is united to Christ more than as an instrument, he is conjoined to Him, he is not only in His hand, he is in a sense His hand itself; he is a member of Christ” (195). The basis of the superiority of Bérulle’s sacerdotal state was, as Maritain noted, “the sacerdotal anointing emanates from that of Jesus, who (and this is the thesis dearest to Bérulle) is a priest because of and as a direct consequence of the hypostatic union…” (Maritain, 428).

Maritain believed churchmen were more or less formed by this school in seminary, and were unable to perceive the effects of a vague theology that had escaped rigorous intellectual systemization and therefore any kind of critical review. The result, he noted, was the production of an ideology rather than a theology that continued in his day to have an immense influence.

Vestiges of this vague theology continue today. Impossible to treat fully in this article-length discussion, we can at least explore a few of its major errors.

An essay worth pondering; are there any connections with current Latin opinons regarding the presbyterate and the presbyter acting in persona Christi?

 

The Third Encyclical

Pope Francis to Sign a New Encyclical on Human Fraternity on Oct. 3 https://t.co/7x28IkUyFW @cnalive

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 5, 2020

@Pontifex's new encyclical needs to heed Benedict XVI: "A brotherhood which embraces everyone in equal manner cannot expect to be taken seriously by anyone." My latest @Church_Militant story. @JZmirak @jihadwatchRS #humanfraternity #CatholicTwitter https://t.co/m8kBQMlPCE

— Dr Jules Gomes (@DrJulesGomes) September 5, 2020

The new encyclical to be released next month, on the universal human family, will invite comparison to the never-promulgated 1939 document Humani Generis Unitas. https://t.co/bOlFaGPft0

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) September 5, 2020

John LaFarge, S.J. and The Unity of the Human Race

Eastern Christian Books: Stolen Churches? Borrowed Bridges?

Eastern Christian Books: Stolen Churches? Borrowed Bridges? Palgrave Macmillan: Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy?: Volume 1: Historical and Theological Perspectives on the Orthodox and Eastern-Catholic Dialogue, eds.Vladimir Latinovic and Anastacia Wooden

Limiting Papal Infallibility to Save It

Latin apologists for the papacy and papal infallibility may think it warranted in the text of Vatican I, but is it?

Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the christian faith, to the glory of God our saviour, for the exaltation of the catholic religion and for the salvation of the christian people, with the approval of the sacred council,

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we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable.

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So then, should anyone, which God forbid, have the temerity to reject this definition of ours: let him be anathema.

The Latin text. 

The Catholic Thing: Infallibility: The Unopened Gift by Russell Shaw

Shaw summarizes one view:

Despite the hopes and fears at the moment, however, only rarely has papal infallibility been specifically invoked in modern times. In 1854 Pius IX made it clear he spoke infallibly in defining the dogma of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. Pius XII did the same in 1950 in defining the dogma of her bodily assumption. Otherwise, like an unopened gift, papal infallibility has remained on the shelf.

Shaw examines whether infallibility applies to the ordinary magisterium of a bishop, but what about the ordinary magisterium of the Roman pope? It's a bait-and-switch. (In his 1995 article for OSV, Shaw repeats much the same material, but does not talk about the papal ordinary magisterium there either.)

Lumen Gentium 25:  

This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will. His mind and will in the matter may be known either from the character of the documents, from his frequent repetition of the same doctrine, or from his manner of speaking.

Latin traditionalist takes on infallibility in relation to papal authority: 

SSPX: Clear ideas on the pope's infallible magisterium

The Infallibility of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium by  Robert J. Siscoe 

 

My thoughts:

There is a sort of scholastic analysis present in the writings like this, with the claim there must be a certain form[ula] to make this intention manifest but is there any instance when the bishop of Rome doesn't think he is teaching the Church Universal? (Even when those outside his patriarchate are not paying attention?) Hence this formula is what makes something "ex cathedra" while any other pronouncement which is just an affirmation of what is Tradition is infallible, being an act of the infallible ordinary magisterium (of the pope, in this case). I don't think the Orthodox would disagree with some version of this infallibility of any bishop who affirms something that is of Tradition.

It does not seem to me that a certain formula is necessary to make it ex cathedra -- again, when does the bishop of Rome not intend for his teaching to be applicable to the Church Universal? What has the thought ever crossed his mind that what he says about faith and morals applies only to Roman Catholics of the patriarchate of Rome, and not to Catholics of other ecclesial jursidictions? Does this regular or ordinary intention alone not sufficient to make a teaching of the pope of Rome on faith or morals ex cathedra? 

So if Pope Francis (or his representative) says something about capital punishment being "inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and changes the Catechism of the Catholic Church to reflect this, how is that not meant to be an ex cathedra pronouncement?

Latin apologists who disagree with this teaching of Pope Francis (or any other touching upon faith or morals that contradicts Tradition) have no choice to say that it is not "infallible" because it is lacking the proper form and is therefore not ex cathedra. But I don't see how this claim about form is warranted by the decree of Vatican I. Maybe the pope or one of his ecumenical councils can finesse the Roman teaching on papal infallibility in this way to save it, but would that sort of "development of doctrine" be regarded as anything than institution-saving by non-Latins?

 

Related: essay on infallibility at Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

The Logical Consequences of Hart's Universalism?

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Daniel Galadza, Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy

"Christ, Culture & New Europe" by Remi Brague

Christ, Culture & New Europe by Remi Brague https://t.co/atFaBel5St

— Levan Ramishvili (@levanrami) September 5, 2020

I myself was privileged to witness some of all this at first hand in late October of 1991, when I was invited by the Pontifical Council for Culture to take part in a symposium of European intellectuals that was meant to offer the bishops of the Synod food for thought. Among the forty people present—almost all of them lay men and women—fewer than ten came from the countries of Western Europe. Most of those present were from the former Soviet Union or from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. It is interesting for Western Europeans to note that the term “Eastern Europe” was deeply frowned upon by the participants from these latter countries, who insisted instead on “Central Europe.” The very idea of an Eastern Europe, they said, was one more lie of Soviet propaganda, used to justify the Red Army’s artificial division of Europe into East and West. The “Church of silence” could be heard again, and the first thing it had to tell us was that it had never been completely gagged and that we. Western Christians, had too often and for too long been a Church of deafness. And the Pope was clearly eager to see the reintegration of Europe’s Eastern and Central parts.

In addition, we Westerners were reminded of a few basic historic facts. We were reminded, for instance, that Prague is almost as “western” as Berlin, and more so than Vienna or Stockholm. We had to learn once again that it had been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, and that it harbored Europe’s first university. We were invited to bear in mind that our intellectuals frequently helped to throw people living under Communist rule into despair by playing footsie with Marxist ideology while they one after another hallowed each new earthly paradise it was giving birth to. As a Frenchman, I experienced a vicarious embarrassment about my country’s role in the post-World War I creation of Czechoslovakia and, even worse, Yugoslavia. These completely artificial states, welding together peoples who had either never lived together or had not done so for centuries—people whose religions, languages, histories, and levels of economic and social development were widely disparate—are the result of the shortsightedness of politicians who were by and large my fellow countrymen.

I am reminded of Taft when he writes: "What makes this task difficult is that memories of European peoples are poisoned with the recollections of wrongs done to and suffered by one another. If some way is not found to heal these wounds, everywhere in Europe and in the former USSR, they will fester and keep alive the longing for vengeance." We need Christ for the healing of memories, and traditionalists of every jurisdiction who cannot reach out to those in other jurisdictions in charity are poor represesntatives of Christ. Are there differences in preferred dogma? Yes, and Rome will need to lead the way in reconsidering what they have advanced as dogma of the "Church." The healing of memories will not be accomplished by a secularist movement or the strengthening of the EU. The churches must be strengthened in Christ, and this will require ecclesial reform, not the same old but more from Rome.

An Argument Against Centralized Authority

"Kühn’s reputation was conservative." That whole con/lib spectrum model is dead. If true about BXI Emeritus, this is worse than BAD. https://t.co/ly2B5JCN6V

— Patrick Coffin (@Patrick_Coffin) September 5, 2020

This is a serious allegation of cover-up by Benedict XVI. He must tell the truth, unlike his successor Francis, who has a sinister record of protecting abusers. NB: clerical predators often come from the “orthodox” wing of the Church. https://t.co/rt2y7sJqY7

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) September 5, 2020

David Balfour

Bonjour the unroll you asked for: Thread by @HKSandham: "Did you hear the one about the Greek monk who was really a British spy? Thread. In the Oxford cemetery where Tolkien is […]" https://t.co/6ltgkUzdNj
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— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) November 7, 2019

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The Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth

The Orthodox Church commemorates today the Prophet Zachariah#orthodox_times https://t.co/VCBTumqBAp

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 5, 2020

Chalcedonian Orthodox Temples

I am so excited to share with you “Neither Here nor in Jerusalem”
This brand new series will explore the temples and holy places of the Orthodox world!
This is a journey that ends in the Kingdom of God!https://t.co/TMGcjwK9MF

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) August 30, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: The Dynamic Legacies of Cities and Councils of Eastern Christian Antiquity

Eastern Christian Books: The Dynamic Legacies of Cities and Councils of Eastern Christian Antiquity Brepols: New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day: Rethinking Councils and Controversy at Early Constantinople 381-451 (English and Ancient Greek Edition) by Justin M. Pigott

D.C. Schindler on Liberalism

D.C. Schindler does the Lord's work, locating the theological meaning of liberalism in the reduction of God to absolute potency.

This too-long-for-online essay is essential reading for anyone who would build a postliberal Christian society.https://t.co/D7nPJIOXF9

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 21, 2020

New Polity What is needed is not a philosophical analysis but a historical analysis.

Fake Synodality at Work

Bishop Vorderholzer: Text of German Synod on Women in the Church "theologically lowbrow". Yes, no quality there any more. https://t.co/0Jciyh12le #GermanTheology #Niveaulos @cnalive #Theology

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) September 4, 2020

Steadfast in Faith by David G. Bonagura, Jr.

Cluny Media

@DavidGBonaguraJ’s incredible work provides dynamic insight into where we are and how we can reorient our lives to Christ. #Catholic #Church @ClunyMedia https://t.co/brSPAfQtnM

— Thomas Griffin (@ThomasCGriffin) August 31, 2020

author's website

Interview with Bissera Pentcheva

Wonderful new @FordhamOrthodox interview with Bissera Pentcheva discussing the #LostVoicesofHagiasophia project! https://t.co/Jj5rUao3IN

— Cappella Romana (@cappellaromana) September 3, 2020

Social Justice Quarterly

Here it is! The first issue of Social Justice Quarterly, the Leonine Institute's magazine!

It's been months in the making and we are so glad to present it to you! Thank you to all our contributors!

Please read and share!!https://t.co/B6B4OHVqs5 pic.twitter.com/Iys13fNNjM

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) September 4, 2020

What Sort of Handle on the Patriarchate?

#PopeFrancis has revealed that that, during the #AmazonSynod, the debate over married priests became too polarised - it is for this reason that he didn’t go forward with the proposal

/1https://t.co/fqMvoIRmMm

— Christopher Lamb (@ctrlamb) September 4, 2020

Matt Dinan Reviews Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights

Today my review of Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights is the "In this Issue" in @hedgehogreview's weekly newsletter--check it out here:https://t.co/1xN86o7GqK pic.twitter.com/I8tQ9TOHNP

— Matt Dinan (@second_sailing) September 4, 2020

Interview with Demetrios Tselengides

On the Lack of Distinction Between the Theanthropic Body and the Body of Humanity: the Root of our Problems

~ Interview with Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Demetrios Tselengides

Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN

Link to audio: https://t.co/nhbKPU6et1

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020

“Here is my rhetorical question: With what moral support can the faithful man go to church, when he knows that by going himself he is preventing someone else who wants to go, because they have reached the maximum amount [of attendees]?...(1)
Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020

Churches, Chapels, Monasteries of Crete, Greece

PHOTO GALLERY: Beautiful Churches, Chapels & Monasteries of Crete, Greecehttps://t.co/TOBFMsHdiP

White-washed chapels on cliffs rising over the azure sea, cloud-capped bell towers or solemn monasteries with old frescoes—Cretan churches are a must-see on your trip to Crete... pic.twitter.com/a4dt8V1mlc

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) September 3, 2020

Sunday Worship in 4th Century Jerusalem

The 12th century manuscript that serves as the basis for this article was discovered in 1884 by the Italian archaeologist Rammurini in Arezzo (Italy). Later it became known as The Pilgrimage to Holy Places..

Read full: https://t.co/KYAnDNWqSa

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) September 3, 2020

The Light-Painted Image of the Mother of God

Commission an Icon

Hand-painted icons by Julia Hayes https://t.co/eGYrwoNlqa via @YouTube

— Julia Bridget Hayes (@ikonographics) September 3, 2020

St. Maximos on the Love of God

Saint Maximus the Confessor: He who loves God first loved his neighbor#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/ljBhkcHTiT

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 3, 2020

Father Paul Drozdowski

Today's new episode is with Father Paul Drozdowski, a world renowned iconographer. We get into his background and the purpose of icons in worship. Listen here: https://t.co/3tkkVfAfdG pic.twitter.com/cY4o2OsCMO

— context_matters (@contextmatters7) September 3, 2020

Fake Synodality

Much of this push to revise the Church’s sexual morality through the Synodal Path is believed to have derived from the thinking of German theologian Father Eberhard Schockenhoff who died suddenly in July aged 67 after falling in his home
https://t.co/1FucUh9z7N @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 3, 2020

Max Weber

In the centenary of Max Weber’s death, we focus on 2 of Weber’s themes that have had a considerable influence on the study of the sociology of religion: the disenchantment of the world; and, Protestant ethics as the driving force behind capitalism https://t.co/Q7WKRf6qJa

— La Civiltà Cattolica (@civcatt) September 3, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Texts and Acts of Ephesus

Eastern Christian Books: Texts and Acts of Ephesus Liverpool University Press: The Council of Ephesus of 431: Documents and Proceedings Translated by Richard Price with an introduction and notes by Thomas Graumann

Prof. Rik Van Nieuwenhove: Ebbing, Flowing Sea: Trinitarian Mystical Theology of Jan Van Ruusbroec

The Juridical Foundations of a Personal Ordinariate

It was a great joy to speak to the @ecclawsoc this afternoon about the juridical foundations of a personal #ordinariate, with thanks to @coefen for the invitation! #CanonLaw #CanonLawMatters https://t.co/XRjaB7VLld

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) September 2, 2020

Holy Prophet Samuel

For Those Interested in Palamas

Apparently a research project devoted to studying the two variants of Gregory Palamas' (in)famous third letter to Gregory Akindynos on the essence/energies distinction has just published (all?/some of?) its results on a new site, yesterday: https://t.co/w2Y5YVMUYN

— Jonathan Greig (@jabgreig) September 2, 2020

website

A Debate on God's Existence

Just watched a great debate on God's existence between Fr. Gregory Pine (@ThomisticInst) and Ben Watkins of (@RealAtheology). It's as cordial and thoughtful as my debate with @cosmicskeptic (if not even more so!). Keep up these great debates @mattfradd! https://t.co/5YnRN80lRi

— Trent Horn (@Trent_Horn) September 2, 2020

John O'Callaghan on Personhood

A great lecture from Notre Dame Prof. John O'Callaghan: "Are There Failed Persons? Are You One of Them?"
Particularly good on faulty modern conceptions of personhood and how they infect modern bioethics.https://t.co/AYMUaxHrpq @ThomisticInst

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) September 1, 2020

A Cool Reception

Cardinal Hon’s letter to #HongKong clergy met with opposition in some quarters of the local Church. One priest told CNA it “went down like a bucket of cold sick” with some local Catholics. https://t.co/1EzdooCnRd via @cnalive

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) September 1, 2020

David Clayton Recommends Lawrence Feingold's The Eucharist

NLM

The Ten Minute Bible Hour: Coptic Christianity

A Benedictine Education

Also among Cluny’s August titles: an edifying new presentation of Newman's essays on Benedictine education, edited by @CFrancisFisher of @Portsmouth_Inst and introduced by @margaritamooney of @scalaorg. View at https://t.co/3tXqX84ENC pic.twitter.com/HJnDn1wP5E

— Cluny Media (@ClunyMedia) August 25, 2020

@ClunyMedia is publishing A Benedictine Education, an edifying new presentation of Newman's essays on Benedictine ed., a cause dear to @scalaorg. It is edited by @CFrancisFisher & introduced by @scalaorg's @margaritamooney. Available @ClunyMedia
& @amazon! pic.twitter.com/RBpJMZGf3f

— Scala Foundation (@scalaorg) September 1, 2020

Byzantine New Year

NLM

Eastern Christian Books: To Attain the Full Stature of the Perfect Christ

Eastern Christian Books: To Attain the Full Stature of the Perfect Christ OUP: Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology: Attaining the Fullness of Christ by Alexis Torrance

Pantanassa

Eastern Catholic Theology in Action

NLM

Not of Immediate Practical Import

The universal destination of goods and the virtue of hope
Fourth catechesis of Pope Francis on the Covid-19 pandemic "To heal the world" in the light of the Gospel, the theological virtues and the principles of the Church's social doctrine

And the lacunae is not merely that of Pope Francis or his ghostwriter -- Roman Catholic Social Teaching has yet to grapple with the problem of the state and its legitimacy. There are a few steps that need to be reasoned through before such principles can be applied to ordering polities.

Not Vatican II's Fault

Just systemic issues that weren't and couldn't be solved just by a synod.

Sunt lacrimae rerum https://t.co/gzuFFZQJyr

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) August 29, 2020

Elsewhere:

Possibly the most painfully ironic photo ever taken: the dumpster of a liberal Catholic monastery, full of sixty copies of Our Latin Heritage. pic.twitter.com/YQASbmgySc

— Urban Hannon (@hannonregular) August 28, 2020

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist 2020

NLM

The beheading of the Forerunner became an act of divine dispensation, for he preached to those in hell the coming of the Savior. Let Herodias lament, for she entreated lawless murder, loving not the law of God nor eternal life, but that which is false and temporal (Kont., Tone 5) pic.twitter.com/l9DI75zPYv

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (@stvlads) August 29, 2020

St. John the Baptist in Deesis of Hagia Sophia, Bearing Witness in Chora, Baptism of Christ in Neonian Baptistery (Ravenna), Fresco at Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki)
Today is commemoration of the beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John pic.twitter.com/4whJYFq1K1

— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) August 29, 2020

Integralism as Default

Timon Cline

This month @ConciliarPost I look at the utility of integralism as descriptive (if not normative): https://t.co/cgHjQZzNx2

— Timon Cline (@tlloydcline) August 28, 2020

My response: the problem is not that the state is just of the wrong confession at the moment; the problem is the state itself. Filling the state with believing Catholics or Christians will not eliminate this fundamental problem of scale.

Jeff Mirus on Latin Integralism

The return of “Integralism”? https://t.co/Zrf4XaZkQJ @FormTheCulture

— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) August 27, 2020

Recognizing that the Church is the arbiter not only of Divine Revelation but of what God reveals through creation in what we call the Natural Law, I am more inclined to want to get the natural law right, to study Catholic social teaching with great care, and to develop a political party that combines the best and most comprehensive recognition of the corresponding principles that ought to animate both the social order and government itself.

Latins claim this as a part of the authority of the Church (see CCC 2036 and Dignitatis Humane 14), but where is the warrant within Apostolic Tradition? Setting aside those secondary precepts which are not directly directly through reasoning but are determined by reason or are applications of reason in finding a convention to order some state of affairs (e.g. driving on which side of the road), there are several points to be made.

1. There are precepts of Natural Law that have nonetheless been revealed directly by God as well. These have been passed down as a part of Sacred Tradition. So bishops can be said to be arbiters of the Natural Law, in so far as they have received it as a part of God's revelation to Israel and in Christ. But does that revelation include all possible secondary precepts?
2. Knowing apart from Divine Revelation the "fullness" of the Natural Law requires not intellectual virtue but moral virtue. Do bishops have a special charism from the Holy Spirit that replaces the need for this and the habit of synderesis and the logical reasoning required as well? This is a more dubious claim.

That the Church possesses the authority to teach the precepts of the Natural Law is probably a long-standing Latin theological opinion. (Going back to Trent if not some time before, during the medieval period?) I'd like to read a treatise or manual that show some nuance in presenting this. Can the patriarchate of Rome cite one of its "ecumenical councils" as an authority espousing this opinon? I am doubtful, since the CCC makes no such reference.

See the old CE entry on the Natural Law.

Voluntarism? Nominalism?

OUP: Political Theology of International Order by William Bain

Defenses and critiques of modern politics will ultimately come back to the choice between a metaphysics of inherent order or divine fiat, so which should we choose? https://t.co/lgv4xL7DN0

— Richard Reinsch (@Reinsch84) August 28, 2020

Theological Roots of the Secular World Order by Nathaniel Peters

Did people with power and influence really believe in legal voluntarism? Or were they just acting in accordance with their appetites? Is this sort of genealogy, putting the blame on late medieval theology/philosophy for "modernity" really still useful, in comparison with a proper study of history?

The Future of ROCOR

The Future of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) https://t.co/AwoukvcDcC

— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) August 26, 2020

Orthodox Christianity

Sure

But what future for academic theology in an age of collapse?

"Like Narcissus, such a person can pursue the discipline of theology only to discover that they have not found God, but an image of themselves reflected in a cultural mirror."

a #mustread from @ccpecknold https://t.co/bTRRBhNRhH

— stephen brannon (@stephenbrannon_) August 27, 2020

St. Phanourios, Pray for Us!

We also celebrate the Holy Martyr Phanourios (Φανούριος Μεγαλομάρτυς)

The faithful pray to Saint Phanourios especially to help them recover things that have been lost. https://t.co/lfrZ8Wu3QK

— Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada (@GO_Metropolis) August 27, 2020

Saint Phanourius is considered as the pre-eminent saint who can help to find (“reveal”) any lost belongings#orthodox_times

https://t.co/gY9i7rZif8

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 27, 2020

Fanouropita is a Greek fasting-appropriate cake brought as an offering to Saint Phanourius for helping people find lost things and not only#orthodox_times https://t.co/FiI3LmO0BM

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 27, 2020

Orthodox Soteriology

"As separation from God, death—not physical, not physiological death, but death as sin and separation—has been abolished by Christ’s death." - Alexander Schmemann pic.twitter.com/1pnO570kKF

— SVS Press (@SVSPress) August 27, 2020

Who Needed Ressourcement to a Greater Degree than the Other Jurisdictions?

The patriarchate of Rome.

CWR : The Next Pope is an evangelical call to ressourcement by Eduardo Echeverria
George Weigel’s new book provides a balanced perspective on what the next pope should embrace in order to promote the radically Christocentric and evangelical imperative of the Church.

Yves Congar and the Future of the Church in its Past
by Charles Taylorhttps://t.co/AT5pehdjBY

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) August 26, 2020

Church Life Journal

I'm not going to critique Taylor here, though what he says is worthy of critique, as his understanding of the problem of political life is flawed, and affects his understanding of the Church's mission as well.

I won't disagree that the patriarchate of Rome needed Ressourcement, not only to become familiar with the Fathers as models, but also as voices of the Tradition, and to be able to distinguish between what is directly pertaining to the Kerygma, theological propositions that have been found to have value in explaining the Kerygma and accepted by the Church Universal, theological opinion that is not yet accepted by all of the Church Universal, and so on. Was a Latin synod posturing as an ecumenical council the best or most effective means of bringing Ressourcement to Latin bishops? Or could this aspect of ecclesial reform have been done in a better and more cost-effective way? If the synod had just been an opportunity for bishops to gather, pray, study and have discussions, without feeling it necessary to issue documents to justify the calling of the synod, would the results have been better?

Saint Gregory Palamas on Pure Prayer and Its Benefits

Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw

Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw to be consecrated on eve of Nativity of Theotokoshttps://t.co/ZkHFmNbXtD

The foundation stone of the cathedral, the first new church in Warsaw in 100 years, was laid by Met. Sawa and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in December 2015, an... pic.twitter.com/hVdfOW1Ev9

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) August 25, 2020