Reminder

RETWEET TO SAVE A LIFE

30% off my book (and all CUA titles) till June 30.

Discount code: THEO23https://t.co/aZSQR2DZa6

— Fr. Andrew Younan (@younan3000) May 31, 2023

Latin Theology of Confirmation

Friends, at last week's Confirmation Mass, a number of candidates chose St. Sebastian as their Confirmation saint. Just as he was branded as a soldier for the Roman army, we are branded through the sacrament of Confirmation for God and the glory of his kingdom. pic.twitter.com/IwMuQ85JxU

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) May 22, 2023

Glory to God

death of a single cell pic.twitter.com/lwCJink5d9

— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) May 13, 2023

Which Nature?

“By receiving the Holy Spirit, who is the bond of union between us and Christ our Savior, those who are joined to him, as branches are to a vine, share in his own nature.” -St. Cyril of Alexandria

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) May 10, 2023

Sacred Arts East and West

Last week, the Institute of Sacred Arts at SVOTS hosted a special roundtable discussion, Sacred Arts East and West: A Conversation with Aidan Hart, Jonathan Pageau, and Andrew Gould. Read more about their discussion and watch the recording here: https://t.co/VDN9yS45JG pic.twitter.com/oocO7aWprh

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (@stvlads) May 3, 2023

Memory Eternal

Our Tribute to the late Professor Luke Gormally (1950-2023), who contributed profoundly to bioethics as our Director, Governor, and much else besides, and who died on Sunday aged 73: https://t.co/kkEnpBO1Gr

May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/oWWgzR0hB4

— Anscombe Bioethics Centre (@AnscombeCentre) May 2, 2023

Life Comes at You Fast...

My review of the doctrinal status of Limbo and related matters is no longer available on Catholic Answers, but here's a link to the archived article.https://t.co/Hs2CsDitSC

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) April 29, 2023

Abomination

The Vatican announced Wednesday that there will be laypeople participating as voting members in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly, a break with past custom, which allowed laypeople to participate without the right to vote. https://t.co/10fcH6FymC

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 26, 2023

On Wednesday the Vatican’s office for the Synod of Bishops announced a series of modifications to the rules governing membership in synod gatherings, for the first time allowing women to be appointed as full members with voting rights.https://t.co/oqikCvBZbP

— Crux (@Crux) April 27, 2023

JUST IN: 10 consecrated clerics to be replaced by 5 women & 5 men religious at Oct Synod in Rome. Auditors to be replaced by 70 non-bishop members chosen by #PopeFrancis. All to be given right to vote, but @Synod_va insists it does not change the episcopal nature of the assembly. pic.twitter.com/I8AKE1XiFF

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) April 26, 2023

A Critic of the Fake Synod

The Synod on Synodality assumes that fidelity to the Church’s teaching needs to be re-imagined and re-worked so that various people will not feel that they are being excluded and rejected. | @GeraldMurray8https://t.co/1EpqhXNJDW

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 20, 2023

Still Fighting the Battles of Yesterday

This is an important occasion to recall that adoration & processions went from being a fixture of Catholic life to virtually *nonexistent* in just a few short years by the 70's.

Radical new sacramental theologies were at work. Fr Richard McBrien once infamously articulated it: https://t.co/iUe4bswWVX pic.twitter.com/BEgcMtpY6Y

— JuventutemDC (@juventutemDC) April 15, 2023

When Worlds Collide

Repulsive comment from a priest—at odds with Magisterium.

“They have … subjected some of the inhabitants of said islands to perpetual slavery [subdiderunt perpetuae servituti]. Therefore We ... exhort … that they desist from the aforementioned deeds.”

— Pope Eugene IV, 1435 https://t.co/Tjg0N8juE7

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 16, 2023

this reply gets to the necessary distinctions...

because mere quantity does nothing to change the nature of the act.

This is slavery considered in its essence, and this response is, indeed, boilerplate moral theory one can find in any number of manuals.

What people have in mind, though, is not slavery strictly considered, +

— Georgius Alexandri f. Mancz (@g_mancz) April 16, 2023

"Ecumenical"

In the design of God's providence, the two great luminaries of their day, Sts Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, died in conjunction with Lyon II. https://t.co/NVETPlYRlP

— Fr Dylan Schrader (@FrDylanSchrader) April 16, 2023

The Same Old

Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood || A one day symposium in Washington, D.C.

Learn more and register! 👉 https://t.co/BfQbRjswtH pic.twitter.com/AFpdzGKKuD

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) April 14, 2023

How Uniates Are Normally Treated

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, told Vatican News “the new norms determine much more clearly when ecclesiastical authority must intervene in the case of crimes.” https://t.co/tx9m1Hga5Z

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 5, 2023

Duffy a Prog?

What is the point of the @CatholicHerald ? I ask because the new edition has a column by Professor Eammon Duffy in which he describes as 'obscene' God's trial of Abraham, and the temptation of Eve as a 'fairy-tale'. Not a letter to the editor but a piece commissioned, accepted,

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) March 7, 2023

New C9 Members, All Latins

Who Are the New Cardinal Members of Pope Francis’ Advisory Council? | National Catholic Register https://t.co/G3Hwz0IGkZ @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 7, 2023

Now Superfluous Thanks to CT?

New Expanded Edition of Pre-55 Holy Week Congregational Book https://t.co/U4eoWhukNE pic.twitter.com/jmhmd4qZRZ

— NLM (@NLMblog) February 28, 2023

Cultural Appropriation

"The idol and the icon cannot be understood apart from a theological and religious context, where idol signifies worshiping images in place of God and the icon is a way of orienting ourselves through images to God." —Prof. Thomas Hibbs pic.twitter.com/a4j3IcrDg9

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) January 30, 2023

The Weigel Vatican II Apologetical Tour

Mark Bauerlein and George Weigel discuss all the things you didn't know, or thought you knew, about Vatican II. Take a listen!https://t.co/rkybbDSNGf

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 30, 2023

Anaxios

Cardinal McElroy's recent essay expressed controversial views on some issues of Catholic doctrine.

It also expressed a view of the synod on synodality which might take Pope Francis by surprise.

analysis from @jdflynnhttps://t.co/8hwd3txVXT

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) January 27, 2023