Saturday, November 07, 2020

Szent Efrém Férfikar - Cserez pole sirokeje (arr. Bubnó Márk, szóló: Nagy Bertalan)

A Latin Apology for Roman Claims

Pope Peter defends the papacy while explaining its role and limits by Casey Chalk Joe Heschmeyer offers many of the standard Catholic arguments but also presents fresh material in his welcome and well-timed book.

Pope Peter: Defending the Church’s Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis by Joe Heschmeyer

A product of (Roman) Catholic Answers, so I expect no nuance or discussion of non-Latin ecclesiology or views regarding primacy.
Yet, as Heschmeyer rightly notes, popes can be both wrong or sinful, even egregiously so, without compromising the doctrine of papal infallibility. Infallibility does not mean impeccability. Nor does it mean everything the pope says or writes must be obeyed unquestionably. When the pope or the bishops exercise the powers of the ordinary or extraordinary Magisterium, we are right to obey. The rest of the time, as Heschmeyer rightly notes, we retain the right to ignore, or, given certain extraordinary circumstances, criticize what our Holy Father says or does.
This begs the question: When is the pope not exercising the powers of the ordinary or extraordinary Magisterium when he is putting forth his opinions regarding faith and morals?

Patriarch Mor Mikhayel Rabo aka Michael the Syrian

Yes, That is the Primary Purpose of Prayer

But there is a place for petitionary prayer as well.

The Peña Parra Case

A Review of Christ the Conqueror of Hell

Dr. Matthew Minerd Lecture on the Prima Pars of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Part 2/4)

Friday, November 06, 2020

Japanese Depictions of the Theotokos

Fr. Peter Heers on the Orthodox Church



More Revelations about Fr. Josef Kentenich

Magister: “He Told Me To Put My Face in His Lap.” This Is How the Founder of Schönstatt Trained His Nuns

Marco Tosatti Comments on the Latest Change to Roman Canon Law

Ordinariate Daily Office

Release Date of McCarrick Report Confirmed

EWTN Documentary on Romano Guardini



A Contributing Reason to the Weakness of Poland

Posting This for the Icon



My guess, an icon commissioned by a Latin from someone trained in Byzantine iconography. The Holy Family icon is a popular image with Latins but here the Eastern tradition of depicting St. Joseph as being much older than the Theotokos is apparently being followed. (I've never seen the Holy Family icon in a Byzantine temple.)

Holy Porphyrios, Pray for Us!

Two on the Meaning of Hand Gestures in Icons



The Catalogue of Good Deeds

12 Principles of Latin International Thought



Andrew Latham on the 10 principles.

#4 regarding scale is a questionable claim regarding Aquinas, though probably true of neoscholastics who didn't know any better. #3 re: the end of a state is questionable as well.

Fr Josiah Trenham on Eastern Orthodox Theology, Catholicism, and the Reformation

Thursday, November 05, 2020

A Latin Traditionalist View of Purgatory and Indulgences

The Modern Scandal of Indulgences: It’s Not What You Think

Missing Something, and It's not Small

This piece is correct on the importance of a common culture for a community. But this recommendation is naive and more akin to liberalism than any sort of moral realism. "Instead of either self isolation or a live and let live attitude which hides the deep divides in our communities, we must meet this moral division head on and seek to convince each other to reject the immoral and live together in unity."

Promoting the Liberal Arts with Exaggerated Claims



FPR

Let me offer a modest definition of what an education is for. An education assists in ordering and expanding our loves. This follows in the tradition of St. Augustine and Hugh St. of Victor up to present day with James K.A. Smith and David Brooks. The flourishing life is a life of ordered love, and education prepares and shapes such a life. It’s for a life fueled by affection creating a people “who the life they’ve made and they place they’ve made in it,” in the words of Wendell Berry.


Christian paideia does this. The liberal arts may train the intellect, but they do not by themselves, train the will, even if the state of learning before the liberal arts may influence the moral imagination.

Marshall McLuhan, Thomist?

A Review of Aristotle's Revenge

St. Andrew Orthodox Cathedral





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A Chant to the Theotokos by the Festive Choir of St Elisabeth Convent



Two from Eastern Christian Insights



Part 4!





A Sacrifice of Praise (Part 3 here)

Benedict Sheehan Interview with WVIA





WVIA

We Shall See

A Change to the Roman Secretariat of State







Meanwhile...

Manlius Boethius

Frescoe of the Good Shepherd

The Tomosology of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Part 3

Fr. Thomoas Loya is a Fan of JP2

and a proponent of theology of the body. But even if this is understandable, I still consider it a Latinization.

How Goes It in Poland?

Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Acting as Leaven?

No. More like abetting a globalist agenda.

The Kazan Icon of the Theotokos



Holy Philoumenos



And the Status of the Ordinariates in 2020?

Have they been just absorbed into the Latin ecclesial machine?



Two POV on Ukrainian Autocephaly




Orthodox Evangelization



What Subsidiarity?

Interesting Icon

No depiction of our Lord. An enlargment that focuses only on the Theotokos? A Latin creation?

The Tomosology of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Part 2

Fagerberg and Geldhof on Liturgical Theology

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Holy Macrina



It is known that her main prayer was the daily singing of the entire Psalter. However, according to the testimony of St. Gregory, the great Cappadocian, she “became for us a teacher of life, a mother, or the one who replaced a mother … she was for us a strong fortress and a shield” (Letter 19.6).


A spiritual mother? Or just a mother?

Psalm 148

A Latin and Dominican View of Things

Beatification Mass for Presbyter Michael McGivney

CNA: ‘He lived the Beatitudes’: Mass of Thanksgiving for Blessed Michael McGivney

McGivney Institutions and Memorials and Fr. McGivney Memorial at the National Shrine of Cross in the Woods



Shalom World

St. John Paul National Shrine
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Audiobook of Immortale Dei

The Bosom of Abraham

Fr. Peter Heers on Voting





His judgments and recommendations may be correct; they may not be. But relying on one elder as a source of political wisdom? Questionable.

Eternal Memory

Roman Primacy

There are no limits, even as Latin theologians and canonists try to come up with some in order to save the institution.

Betsy Brown, "The Lindisfarne Gospels: St. John"

Andew Willard Jones Today

Fr. Gerald Murray on World Over

Discussing the pope's comments on civil unions.

Interview with Dr. Fagerberg

CWR: “Liturgical mysticism is the crowning of the Christian life” “Mystical” says Dr. David Fagerberg, “is not a character trait that only some people have … Our royal baptismal priesthood is an exercise of liturgical mysticism.”

Dominicans Singng at the Angelicum

Sunday, November 01, 2020

Holy Cosmas and Damian, Pray for Us!

Photos of Elder Ephraim and His Monks

The Importance of Logic

Holy Elisabeth, Pray for Us!

A "Clarification" from the Secretariat of State




A Latin Archbishop Chats with an Eastern Catholic Presbyter and His Wife



Fr. Ephrem Reese, "Seeing God"

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Pietro De Marco Comments on the Pontificate of Pope Francis

Magister: “Brothers All,” Including “Families” of the Same Sex. The Pontificate of Francis Under the Analyst’s Lens

Finality... and Natural Inclinations

The Dies Irae

John Case



InfoGalactic

Just One Man's Opinion

Not universally true, and maybe not even true for the limited cases to which it applies. Pulling Christian teaching from quotes of individual saints is not moral theology, and even what is taken to be the result of the sanctified, connatural wisdom of a saint must be tested against Tradition and a proper moral theology.

Symbols and the Meaning Crisis



Sergius Bulgakov

A Comparison of the Carmelite and Roman Rites



NLM

Temple of Saint Sergius and Bacchus

Reformation Day



Except Francis Himself is One of the Challenges to the Faith of Latins

St. Alphonsus Liguori on Hope

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez



Friday, October 30, 2020

Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship



Christ Our True Light

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Transubstantiation



Presbyter David McCready

A Collection of Writings by St. Basil the Great

A Nay to the Red Hat for Fr. Cantalamessa

Bishop Barron's Talk to Kenrick Glennon-Seminary



How's that seminary reform coming along?

Commemorating St. Anastasia the Roman



Orthodox Times

More Make-Work for Roman Catholic Academics

But the ultramontanists think they are rendering an important service to "the Church."

Charles Coulombe Interview

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Thank God They Weren't Destroyed

Have We Reached the Excesses of Ecumenism Yet?

Promotion of Bridal Mysticism?

Investiture as a Bridal Ceremony by Peter Kwasniewski

Iconography Tutorials with Julia Bridget Hayes

Not Quite an Apology for Fratelli Tutti on War

George and Anderson Respond to Pope Francis



Who is Funding This?

Upcoming Lecture on St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Commonweal's Fluff Hit Piece on Latin Integralism

A Symbol of the Decay