Liturgical Arts Journal

Lord of the Powers

A Sacred Kingdom

The Frankish churches exercising authority over the secular realm: standard from erroneous principles? Looking mistakenly at OT antecedents?

Feser Responds to Fastiggi

Catholic theologians must set an example of intellectual honesty: A reply to Prof. Robert Fastiggi

How great is the mercy of the Lord that He gives Himself in the Holy Mysteries even if His ministers are unworthy by sinning against His truth in what they say and preach.

Pope Francis at the (Re)Thinking Europe Conference

Holy Jonah

CWR Dispatch: In Defense of Jonah by Alan L. Anderson

In the Reluctant Prophet we have the classic (and beautiful) case of God ‘choosing a crooked pencil to draw a straight line’, for Jonah is the perfect ‘crooked pencil’ with which to draw that perfectly straight line.

Nietzsche's Political Thought

Cardinal Koch on the Protestant Reformation

CWR: Cardinal Koch: “The commemoration of the Reformation reminded us of what unites us”

“In the commemoration of the Reformation,” says the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, “the emphasis was above all on what we have in common; but open questions still remain, as before.”

If Decentralization Not Now, Then When?

Sandro Magister: Francis's Slap At Cardinal Sarah. Behind the Scenes

Echeverria Responds to Faggioli

A Critique of Faggioli’s interpretation of early Ratzinger’s view of Scripture, Tradition, and Authority by Eduardo Echeverria

Massimo Faggioli’s naïve biblicism cannot account for different levels of authoritative Church teachings in Catholicism, with some being foundational, irreformable, and definitive, and others being […]

The God-Bearer

Peters Responds to Fastiggi

Sententia communis? Just ‘sententia communis’? (CWR Dispatch)

A Consequence of the Filioque? "Really?"

A Prokeimenon

Depression

Exactly.

Byz, TX:

Do we have naked women needing to be baptized by deaconesses? Do we have priests unable to go to widows homes lest they scandalize the village? Do we have male and female sides to our parishes that need deaconesses to keep the women in order during services? No? Then what role will they play as that's the role they filled 600+ years ago? Helping people through Christian charity? Does that need an ordained ministry?

If we're going to restore the order of deaconesses let us also restore strict sex divisions in and outside of the temple.

ORTHODOX LITURGISTS ISSUED A STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE REVIVAL OF THE ORDER OF DEACONESS BY THE PATRIARCHATE OF ALEXANDRIA

MoJ: Paolo Carozza on "the true Benedict Option"

Common Good Conference at UST MN

Three Historic Ambrosian Missals