The Human Condition

Too Much Mind, Not Enough Heart?

Rod Dreher believes there are some similarities in the spirituality of Byzantine Christianity and Buddhism: Robert Wright’s Buddhism. Would Syriac Christianity have the same similarities? Byzantine monks are often the first to reject any sort of similarity as being only superficial.

Our New Life in Christ

Why We Have to Suffer

A Conversation with Marcel Pérès

CWR Dispatch: Eastern and Western liturgy: Natural harmony or unnatural dissonance? by Ines Angeli Murzaku

Pope Francis’ speech on the liturgical reform delivered on August 24, 2017 raises questions about both liturgy and ecumenism.

Ekklesia

The Wedding Garment

Restore the Psalms

Edward Feser and Joseph Bessette on The World Over

Before Church and State by Andrew Willard Jones

Crisis Magazine: A Brilliant Defense of Christendom by John Horvat II

Sandro Magister: From the Vatican, a Cold Shower On Negotiations With Beijing

Not a View Latins Would Accept Easily

Pravmir: St. Mark of Ephesus: A True Ecumenist

Magnum principium

Fr. Z
Rorate Caeli

The Nativity of the Theotokos

Benedict XVI on Vatican 2

From Last Testament, the interview by Peter Seewald, p. 142:

Peter Seewald: Was it a mistake to convoke the council at all?

No it was right for sure. One can ask whether it was necessary or not, ok. But in itself it was a moment in the Church
when you were simply waiting on something new, on a renewal, a renewal of the whole. That wasn't to be something coming on from Rome, but a new encounter with the whole worldwide Church. In that respect, the time was simply nigh.

Some thoughts on the renewal soon.

Fr. Thomas Joseph White to Be on EWTN Radio

Eastern Standard Time

CWR: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb

The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood and articulated.

Cardinal Caffara Passes

Rorrate Cali

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Notes: More on Josef Seifert's Retirement
For the Record - Samizdat - Full Text of Archbishop Tucho Fernandez's "Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing"

Vatican Politicking

Revealed: British Cardinal Fixed Vatican Conclave for His Friend Pope Francis