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A Divine Gift

Latins still confusing the Patriarchate of Rome for the Church Universal.

Rorate Caeli: Announcing Tradivox: An International Catechism Restoration Project

Nikolaos Loudoviko: 'What is Ecclesial Unity?'

A Latin Group Issues a Latin Document with a Latin Conclusion Produced from Latin Premises

CNA/CWR: Theologians say there is ‘doubt’ of sacramentality in marriages between ‘baptized non-believers’

"Re Against Zen"

Sandro Magister: Re Against Zen. Divided By a Wall of China

A Patriarchate for Capartho-Rusyns?

Sandro Magister: The Unreal Dream of a “Church of the Ruthenians.” A Clarifying Letter

Real Presence? Or Transubstantiation?

At the L.A. Religious Congress...

More Videos of Bishop Georg Bätzing

Opening the Remaining Archives of Pius XII

CWR: History Redeemed: Justice for Pope Pius XII by William Doino, Jr.
The March 2nd opening of the last remaining archives from Pius XII’s pontificate will likely reinforce what historians already know about the war-time pontiff’s actions on behalf of endangered Jews.

Time to Move the Chairs on the Deck Again

"Younger." Sure.

CNA/CWR: German bishops’ elect new conference chairman





Erstes Pressestatement von Bischof Bätzing nach seiner Wahl zum Vorsitzenden der DBK
Der neue Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bischof Georg Bätzing zu seiner Wahl

Monastère Saint-Benoît

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A Product of Western "Semi-Arianism"?

For contemporary monothelites, by contrast, Jesus’s humanity is firmly in the driver’s seat. To the extent that we may say that Jesus is divine, this is at best a secondary claim, derived from the historical Jesus, the product of a scientific quest.

First Things: Jesus: Less Than Divine by Hans Boersma

Showing of New Men at SVOTS

Matt Fradd: Byzantine Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, & The Schism | Pints With Aquinas Ep.194

Disciplina Arcani

The Sound of Hagia Sophia

NPR: Listen: The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago

Changes in Personnel for the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Magister: From the East Not Light But Darkness. Strange Shufflings in the Roman Curia

And in fact, rather than a promotion, the new role given to Vasil is a downgrade. His ambition was to return home as the major archbishop of an unprecedented and transnational Church of the Ruthenians, with its metropolitan see in Presov, which would bring together Slovaks, Croats and Hungarians of the Greek-Catholic rite, plus the  the annexation of a Ukrainian diocese, that of Mukachevo, also populated by Ruthenians, for a total of about 200 thousand faithful.

Of course, this project was hardly pleasing to the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine. It was counting instead on the promotion to Rome, as the new secretary of the congregation, of one of its bishops, Teodor Martynyuk, auxiliary of the Greek Catholic diocese of Ternopil.

But neither aim has hit the mark. Instead of the Ukrainian Martynyuk - or at least another easterner - a Latinizing Italian has been made secretary. While Vasil is for now only temporary administrator of a diocese subordinate to Presov, that of Kosice, whose bishop, Milan Chautur, is still in office, albeit under investigation by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith for allegations of sexual harassment against a minor.

Debating Theological Explanations for the Real Presence

First Things: The Theology of Transubstantiation
From First Thoughts
Brett Salkeld and Mark discuss Reformation-era debates over the Real Presence and what Catholics and Protestants believe about the Eucharist. Continue Reading »

Eastern Christian Books: Jansenism and Other Bogeymen

Eastern Christian Books: Jansenism and Other Bogeymen

OUP: The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform