Edward Feser, Modern biology and original sin, Part II

Rome Reports: Pope: “I came to Germany to speak about God”



Zenit:
The Pope Has Come to Germany, He Speaks of God
L'Osservatore Director Reflects on First Days of State Visit

Pontiff's Reflections at Marian Shrine [2011-09-23]
"At the Foot of the Cross, Mary Becomes Our Fellow Traveler and Protector"

Papal Homily at Ecumenical Prayer Service [2011-09-23]
"In the Prayer of Jesus We Find the Very Heart of Our Unity"

Papal Words to Germany's Evangelical Church [2011-09-23]
"God Is Increasingly Being Driven Out of Our Society"

Benedict XVI's Address to Muslim Leaders [2011-09-23]
"We Believers Have a Special Contribution to Make Toward Building a Better World"

Holy Father's Comments en Route to Berlin [2011-09-22]
"We Are in Need of a Presence of God in Our Time"

Pontiff's Homily at Germany's Olympic Stadium [2011-09-22]
"The Risen Lord Gives Us a Place of Refuge, a Place of Light"

Papal Message to Berlin's Jewish Leaders [2011-09-22]
"Strengthen Our Common Hope in God in the Midst of an Increasingly Secularized Society"

Pope's Words to Germany's Lower House of Parliament [2011-09-22]
"The Listening Heart: Reflections on the Foundations of Law"

Benedict XVI's Address at Berlin Welcome Ceremony [2011-09-22]
"Just as Religion Has Need of Freedom, so Also Freedom Has Need of Religion"

Scholé: The Jesus Prayer: Annotated Bibliography and Internet Resources (See also: The Jesus Prayer: Breathing and Posture.)

CathBlog - Metaphysics well regarded outside the Catholic 'ghetto' by Simon Rowney (via Insight Scoop)

Humanitas: Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Role of Tradition by Mark T. Mitchell

NCRegister: Young Theologians Encouraged to Confront 'The Intellectual Tasks of the New Evangelization' (via First Things)

Vatican Council II: a Debate That Has Not Taken Place, by Msgr. Brunero Gherardini
(via Ite Ad Thomam)

Thomistica.net: Aquinas’s De unione verbi incarnati: An Interview with Klaus Obenauer, part 2.

The Korean Martyrs -September 20

Die Kirche ist von außen und innen bedroht

Predigt von Weihbischof Athanasius Schneider beim Pontifikalamt im Alten Ritus in der Wiener Karlskirche am Fest Maria Namen, am 12. September, auf Einladung der Petrusbruderschaft.

Dominicana: Br. Philip Neri Reese, O.P., Truth and the Wonder Trap

Robert George: Remarks on Natural Law at Notre Dame

MoJ

Steven Long responds to Christopher Tollefsen regarding capital punishment

Thomistica.net: "Goods" Without Normative Order to the Good Life, Happiness, or God: The New Natural Law Theory and the Nostrum of Incommensurability

Chris Masterjohn recommends the following:
Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science
Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now be printed in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed

Sister Matthaia Osswald's story of conversion to Orthodoxy: My Great Adventure in Search of the Truth

A Catholic can't help but scrutinize her reasons for converting, and the importance of the Divine Liturgy in the process.

Fr. Giertych has already been down to TAC. He will be in Berkeley next Tuesday. As my car is in the shop, I do not know if I will be able to attend, but I will post the video if it becomes available.

An interview of Wojciech Giertych, O.P. by the Province of St. Joseph.


Post-production for Master of the Sacred Palace was completed in May, but no news of when the DVD will be released. A post about him and his duties at Pro Unione.

His course on moral theology.

Medievalists.net: The Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic World

A typical NNLT appeal to "dignity"

Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity by Christopher O. Tollefsen

TED: Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution

Haven't the reductionistic claims of geneticists been shown to be exaggerated already?

Record: LIVE chat with Lucianne Walkowicz on extrasolar planets and how that affects life on Earth, September 15, 1-3pm EDT.

History of the Ancient World: Church, State and Divorce in Late Roman Egypt