“Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development"

Fr. Z: Pope Francis creates a one new Dicastery out of four, which will be suppressed



Rorate Caeli

More lecturing of civil governments and states to come. Though some might think that the consolidation of 4 into one might mean that the output would be less. But don't underestimate what can be done in a bureaucracy?

Salvation by Faith

The Myth of Religious Violence

And another lecture at SCU:

Chiesa: Double Friendly Fire Against the “Pope Emeritus”

First Cardinal Brandmüller, then Bishop Sciacca. The one an illustrious historian, the other a luminary of canon law. Both of the circle closest to Ratzinger. But both absolutely opposed to his continuing to have himself called pope

Eastern Christian Books: Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity

Eastern Christian Books: Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity

Ordered passion/emotion? Or some variation of the care ethic?

Contemporary Byzantine Painting

What's the point?

Should these meetings just be discontinued? If there are to be such meetings, they should be done with local bishops.

A Painting of Benedict XVI

Papal Message to Catholic-Orthodox Symposium

I Ought to Get a Copy of The Beginning of the Gospel

Will SVS Press publish the English translation?

DECR
Pravmir: Metropolitan Hilarion: I Owe Everything in My Life to the Church by Anna Danilova, Ph.D.
(via Liturgical Notes and The Moynihan Letter

If That Was His Primary Reason for Resigning

Then he could have cancelled WYD 2013. If that wasn't an option because too much had already been invested, then could he not have delegated to another bishop? But then WYD would not have had the same drawing power.

All the reason more for it to be done away with now.

The Moynihan Letter: Letter #52, 2016: Why Benedict Resigned

Two New Books on the Theology of Louis Bouyer

One in French, the other in Italian:

L'humanisme eschatologique de Louis Bouyer de Sœur Marie-David Weill

Alessandro Scardoni:
Louis Bouyer: itinerario di una teologia mistica tra dossologia e sofiologia

Byzantine Philanthropy

The Unchanging Gospel in an Ever Changing Culture

Blueprints for the Little Church

the book
announcement
Faith Encouraged Live with Fr. Barnabas Powell

Fr. Cassian Folsom

Repetition But Not Mechanical

An Unfamiliar Title

On Liturgical Customaries for Seminaries: An Example of Mutual Enrichment from the Anglican Patrimony by Revd Fr Christopher Smith

I am told that nowadays some seminaries have attempted more precise handbooks of behavior in church and seminary, general rules of life. I have not seen any of them myself. In my day in the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, everything from etiquette at table to liturgical decorum and expectations of clerical dress were all kind of an oral tradition that was passed from superiors to seminarians in the form of peer pressure to conform, rather than in any manual.

Pray, Tell: Conclusions Regarding the Female Diaconate