Medievalists.net: Stones of Medieval Italy

An Explanation of the The Litany of Humility: Three Aspects of Humility

Mirror of Justice: Hittinger on Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics - Scholasticism and Political Freedom (mp3).

The Angelus:Vatican II at 50: History of the Preparatory Schemas

James Chastek's appraisal of Aristotle's natural science: Note on Aristotle’s Physics

How can metaphysics then be a science rather than tentative opinion?

But in turning to the Physics in search of such truths, all one finds is a series of conclusions that are either false or of no value, and by “of no value” I mean the term as Aristotle himself used it: “definitions which do not enable us to discover the derived properties, or which fail to facilitate even a conjecture about them, must obviously be… futile (De anima, I:1)” If the value of definitions is from the power they give us to derive new properties and facilitate conjecture, then we must admit the truth of any number of things that nullify the supposed truth of common experience. For example, it is more valuable to identify rest and motion (as happens in inertia) or magnitude and time (as happens in Relativity). Again, we should affirm that things with no parts can move (Like electrons. The premise is not inconsequential – it grounds Aristotle’s proof for the existence of God) and we should deny that anything in motion needs a subject of notion (a light wave is not some thing waving – like aether) and that, as a consequence to this, magnitude is not the foundation of physical things, that is, a sort of substrate that supports all activity.

I wouldn't be so quick to jettison Aristotelian physics in favor of the reasonings of contemporary physicists, but it deserves a longer and better defense than I can give at the moment.

Simon Oliver - Radical Orthodoxy

Simon Oliver (2009). Radical Orthodoxy : From Participation to Later Modernity

TEDxMileHighSalon - Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics

The Secular Character of the Laity and the DSPT College of Fellows by Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP

A couple of other links:
Black or white - on the Augustinian cappa
Ancient Heresies and Their Modern Forms

Rome Reports: Process of beatification begins for Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation

Measuring happiness?

TEDxObserver - Geoff Mulgan

James Chastek, A nexus of Aristotle and Plato’s disagreement

James Chastek, God as activity without someone (like God) acting

Giving Up Something” for Lent - Ancient Faith Radio (via Byzantine, Texas)

My 2012 Oscar Pick - The TREE OF LIFE - and why it won't win

Zenit: Doctor Who Found Cause of Down Syndrome Moves Closer to Canonization
Diocesan Phase Closes for Jérôme Lejeune

Br. Philiip Neri Reese, Character, Casuistry and Catharsis

Bishop Seraphim (Sigrist): Orthodoxy is Just Christianity

Why Study Latin and Greek? (via Insight Sccop)

The Pope's homily at Santa Sabina on Ash Wednesday.

In his talk earlier this month at the DSPT, Fr. Sherwin discussed the impact of emotional development on moral development, using the work of Lewis, Amini and Lannon in A General Theory of Love. He also talked about John Senior, and the sort of [emotional] preparation that a solid Christian spiritual life requires. There was some disagreement between him and Dennis de Rougemont on the origin of romantic love, as Fr. Sherwin cited Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde as a counter.

What new insights would Conrad Baars have into our affective life if he were alive today?

The current model of catechesis (CCD class) doesn't seem to be effective. We need something like Dr. Senior's integrated humanities program. (Of course the discussion got me thinking about the topic of poetic knowledge, as well.)