Insight Scoop: Timeless spiritual classic "Abandonment to Divine Providence" released ... along with the author’s practical letters of advice

Byzantine, Texas: Noted author, Fr. Gabriel Bunge tonsured to Great Schema

Zenit: 3 Jesuit Heroes
Canada Hails 400 Years of Service

The third Jesuit profiled? Bernard Lonergan. Interesting how many centers devoted to the study of his writings there are: Lonergan Institute, Lonergan Centre, BC, Sydney, Loyola Marymount, Seton Hall.

Links and more links.

Lonergan Philosophical Society

One Day in a Monastery

I had copied the url for this trailer somewhere, but came across the trailer again today through Byzantine, Texas.

Two from Mirror of Justice

1. Celebrating John Finnis at Villanova

What's new in the second edition of Natural Law and Natural Rights?

"Adds a substantial postscript by the author developing and refining the theory in response to thirty years of discussion, criticism, and further work in the field"

2. Robert George, The Question of Judicial Supremacy

Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited
by Robert P. George

Dominicana: Church, Family and Civil Society

Andrew Cusack: New Cathedral in Russia
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Magadan, Siberia

Op-StJoseph: Whether Faith Needs Philosophy
An Article in First Things by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Alas, you need to subscribe to read the full article.

Thomas Bushlack, Is There a Christian Response to the Debt Ceiling Debates? (via MoJ)

See this comment at MoJ:

However, I find this quote a little too cute:

"This principle...would remind us that the time to cut programs and spending is not during an economic downturn, but rather once the economy has rebounded enough to pick up the slack currently left by the high unemployment rate."

Maybe, but is this just a foregone conclusion concerning the common good? Fiscal responsibility, the courage to make difficult choices concerning entitlement programs etc... also ought to be factors in working for the common good.

I question whether this is just another example of someone, instead of being informed by what "common good" means, merely superimposing his own preconceived notions of reality upon the term.

Yes, what of the role of civic prudence, which must take into account whether such spending is sustainable? What are the potential negative consequences for continued deficit spending if such deficits can never be made up? There are many other questions as well -- what is being purchased with this money? Should it be the Federal Government's responsibility to do this? (Is it Constitutional?)

A response by Edward Feser to Christopher Tollefsen at Public Discourse: In Defense of Capital Punishment. Related posts at his blog: In defense of capital punishment and On rehabilitation and execution.

 

TAC: 40th Anniversary Gala: Audio and Photos

Gombert - Salve Regina

Alamire

Op-StJoseph: New website for Providence College. Here it is. At the website I see this: ​Collaborative Dorr Rebellion Documentary to Premiere. The filmmakers seem to be democrats: "But while Rhode Islanders may be among the only people to learn of this important incident in the history of voting rights, constitutional scholars and historians remember it as a milestone in the quest for the common man to control his own government." Not exactly something I'd expected to see in connection with Providence College.

A DPS project of the Phillips Memorial Library.

Is a [naive] commitment to democracy a feature of Americanism?

Wiki: Dorr Rebellion

Intellectual history as the sophomore's philosophy

Robert Barron on Univocity and Voluntarism

Why reason when doing genealogy is so much easier?

MoJ: Catholic theologians' statement against capital punishment

More from Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Germany

Vultus Christi: Only God Himself, His Word and His Signs

First Things: The Case Against False Assertions by Christopher Tollefsen and Alexander Pruss

Edit. In the comments someone mentions this paper by Alasdair MacIntyre: Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers.

First Things: The Pastoral Response to Homosexuality by Melinda Selmys

Francesco Cavalli, Salve Regina

MOJ: John Coughlin's "Canon Law"

OUP
faculty page/Notre Dame News
"Antinomianism and Legalism in Canon Law"