50% off all Byzantine Iconography tutorials on Udemy until 31 October with the code OCTOBERSALE2020 https://t.co/y5pF1H0Tkc
— Julia Bridget Hayes (@ikonographics) October 27, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Iconography Tutorials with Julia Bridget Hayes
Not Quite an Apology for Fratelli Tutti on War
It may be that ”Fratelli Tutti” opposes the use of force in international relations altogether; it’s a question in need of further explication.https://t.co/qa8pL95vO5
— First Things (@firstthingsmag) October 28, 2020
George and Anderson Respond to Pope Francis
What did Pope Francis say about "civil unions"? What did he mean? How does the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage and sexual morality bear on questions of legally recognized partnerships of various kinds? Ryan Anderson and I examine the questions.https://t.co/Ur8xRi8Rju
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) October 28, 2020
No public official or religious leader can change the nature of marriage or the moral status of non-marital sexual conduct. For a law to serve the common good, it must reflect the truth about marriage.https://t.co/Io1KthkVsZ via @PublicDiscourse @McCormickProf
— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) October 28, 2020
Who is Funding This?
“The obsolescence of the 20th century economy is showing, but also of the economy before January 2020. We have entered the era of communal wealth and a new economy is needed,” says Luigino Bruni, scientific director of the Economy of Francesco https://t.co/BfwMKXFvJ3 pic.twitter.com/fEi5WHsrCy
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 28, 2020
Upcoming Lecture on St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Details below of this year's Cardinal Winning Lecture with Dr Rebekah Lamb: "Thérèse of Lisieux: A Doctor of the Church for Our Times."@StAndFoundatio1 @GUCatholic @UofGEducation @timothypomalley @TriciaCBruce @leocushley @ArchdiocGlasgow Please share.https://t.co/j8nBH7uCHD
— Reclaiming the Piazza (@PiazzaThe) October 28, 2020
Commonweal's Fluff Hit Piece on Latin Integralism
. @troutsky_’s essay on integralism is the worst I’ve seen so far. It starts by discussing the broad political movement and blogs like @josias_rex and then doesn’t engage with them, instead turning to a rather obscure book published recently. https://t.co/F05lKaWGZ0
— Very Serious Politics Guy (@IndpdntCentrist) October 28, 2020
A Symbol of the Decay
If the Church is indeed built on the foundation of the Apostles, and Christ is the cornerstone (Eph 2:19-22), than the image of a cracked stone seems an apt one for what the Church in Germany is doing these days. https://t.co/7LnxoANpSJ
— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Michael Pakaluk Reviews Snead's What It Means to Be Human
“What It Means To Be Human”: A Review | Michael Pakaluk https://t.co/rEKwhrarpo pic.twitter.com/EOla4DwOi6
— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) October 27, 2020
A Response to Pope Francis
Priest Canonist: Permitting Same-Sex Civil Unions Is a 'Grave Error' https://t.co/0otRCbxZne
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 27, 2020
Holy Nestor, Pray for Us!
The Church celebrates the memory of Martyr Nestor, a disciple of Great-Martyr Dimitrios#orthodox_times
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) October 27, 2020
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Love for Christ
"Love for Christ is something else. It is without end, without satiety. It gives life; it gives strength; it gives health; it gives, gives, and gives." +St. Porphyrios
— Saint Porphyrios (@saintporphyrios) October 26, 2020
Spirula
Exciting news! This appears to be the FIRST observation of Spirula, aka ram's horn squid, alive + in its natural environment. Very rarely seen or captured, they have many extinct relatives, but are only living member of genus Spirula, family Spirulidae, and order Spirulida. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/re4rZyRuER
— Schmidt Ocean (@SchmidtOcean) October 27, 2020
The Next Issue of New Polity
It will be interesting to see D.C. Schindler's objections to integralism. His book against liberalism is quite good. https://t.co/Jy2jFeI8vb
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) October 27, 2020
Have Circumstances Ruled out the Possibility of a Just War?
JUST WAR: Fratelli Tutti vs Thomas Aquinas?
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) October 27, 2020
Vatican News interview with Fra Giulio Cesareo suggests @Pontifex’s new document “confirms” there is no just war.
Thoughts?#CatholicTwitter https://t.co/WHHciXoji6
A Progressive Latin Asks for Clarification
.@commonwealmag which is ideologically in sync with #PopeFrancis is also calling for clarity. “The problem is not only that it’s led to a media crisis; it’s created a moral crisis” writes @MatthewSitman https://t.co/quOpVHsXo4
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 27, 2020
Others are sure...
#PopeFrancis made headlines last week for his views on civil unions. Today's post looks at what he said, what he meant, and what it means for the Church. Read it here: https://t.co/MLe9LqScY5 pic.twitter.com/xCcqqcPUGI
— The Jesuit Post (@TheJesuitPost) October 27, 2020
There's a Trinitarian/Christological Heresy
The Son is so absolutely dependent on the Father that paradoxically he is entirely independent of him. He is only equal to the Father as receiving all from him but as receiving all he is of himself self-originated and self-unified else he would not be equal.Per filium as Filioque
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) October 27, 2020
Kwasniewski on the Feast of Christ the King
I'm somewhat agnostic on the "best form" of government, when governments seem to always devolve. But on today's feast, Peter K looks at Christianity & Kingship:
— Steve Skojec (@SteveSkojec) October 25, 2020
Between Christ the King and “We Have No King But Caesar” - OnePeterFive - https://t.co/fCjYptnA69 via @onepeterfive pic.twitter.com/u4zeQCYJv8
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Kwasniewski:
The month of November begins with the great Solemnity of All Saints. But in the traditional Roman calendar, All Saints is preceded shortly before by an even greater feast—that of Christ the King, the One who creates and sanctifies the citizens, ambassadors, and soldiers of His Kingdom.This is close to the justification that Pius XI used in Quas Primas. Note that in the Byzantine rite, the feast of All Saints is celebrated after Pentecost (as it used to be celebrated in the West), and for an appropriate liturgical and theological reason. Otherwise the case could be made that every Sunday is a memorial of Christ who is the Head of His Mystical Body.
When Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in 1925, he was, one might say, supplying in the Church’s calendar the missing invisible cause of All Saints, as well as making clear just what the mission of the saints in history is: to be the living members of the Mystical Body under Christ its Head, and to extend this body across the whole earth. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the King of all men, all peoples, all nations, and His saints are those who, taking up their cross and following Him, have conquered their own souls and won over the souls of many others for this Kingdom.
As Michael Foley shows in a brilliant article in the latest issue of The Latin Mass magazine, the feast was not merely moved, but transmogrified. It was given a new name, a new date, and new propers, all of which deemphasized the social reign of Christ and put in its place a “cosmic and eschatological Christ.”But is the Pauline/Consilium's Feast of Christ the King closer in its conception of Christ to the Byzantine representation of Christ Pantocrator? Perhaps.
This leads me back to Pope Paul VI’s suppression of one feast of Christ the King and his creation of another. What is really going on here? It seems to me that the original feast of Christ the King represents the Catholic vision of society as a hierarchy in which lower is subordinated to higher, with the private sphere and the public sphere united in their acknowledgment of the rights of God and of His Church. This vision was put aside in 1969 to make way for a vision in which Christ is a king of my heart and a king of the cosmos—of the most micro level and the most macro level—but not king of anything in between: not king of culture, of society, of industry and trade, of education, of civil government.Perhaps anything more than this would be pastorally unwise - presumptuous and maybe even blasphemous? Our Lord is not a sports team, and He does not want empty praise coming from the lips of men.
Foley's article was republished at NLM, a link to which I posted here.
Ross Douthat's Take on the Crisis in the Patriarchate of Rome
Liberal Catholicism turns out to have been more resilient than the conservative master narrative suggested. From the archives:https://t.co/0FOfPt89fv
— First Things (@firstthingsmag) October 26, 2020
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