The Pope's homily at Santa Sabina on Ash Wednesday.

In his talk earlier this month at the DSPT, Fr. Sherwin discussed the impact of emotional development on moral development, using the work of Lewis, Amini and Lannon in A General Theory of Love. He also talked about John Senior, and the sort of [emotional] preparation that a solid Christian spiritual life requires. There was some disagreement between him and Dennis de Rougemont on the origin of romantic love, as Fr. Sherwin cited Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde as a counter.

What new insights would Conrad Baars have into our affective life if he were alive today?

The current model of catechesis (CCD class) doesn't seem to be effective. We need something like Dr. Senior's integrated humanities program. (Of course the discussion got me thinking about the topic of poetic knowledge, as well.)

William Byrd - Emendemus in melius

William Byrd - Emendemus in melius. Deller

Insight Scoop: Saints are not sad - short biographies of joyful saints by Frank Sheed

Rome Reports: Pope explains the significance of Lent and Ash Wednesday

Zenit: On Peter's Mission
"To Feed the Flock of Christ, Keeping It United in Faith and Charity
Pope's Homily Sunday With New Cardinals
"The Petrine Ministry Is Therefore a Primacy of Love in the Eucharistic Sense"

Ash Wednesday and Lent in Two Minutes

OP Vocations: The Place of Study in the Ideal of St. Dominic
The Place of Study in the Ideal of St. Dominic
(PDF version)
by Rev. James A. Weisheipl OP

Rorate Caeli: In defense of Mons. Brunero Gherardini - Part 2

Questions on analogy

Steven Long, Thoughts on "A Long Way to Go," a response to Christopher Malloy's "A Long Way to Go."

His book: Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith

Consistory for new Cardinals

Rome Reports: What is a Cardinal?
How many cardinal electors are there and where are they from?
Pope begins meeting with college of cardinals

Rorate Caeli: In defense of Mons. Brunero Gherardini - Part 1

East of Byzantium teaser Vardan Mamikonyan

CNA: Moral theologians reject Catholic writer's defense of HHS mandate by Benjamin Mann

Metropolitan Hilarion: Life is granted to human beings so that they meet with God

Ancient Faith Radio: Philosophers and Theologians (mp3)

Ein Gespräch zwischen Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und dem Staatsintendanten Prof. August Everding über Leben und Glauben (1997)



More videos: benedetto.tv.

Metropolitan Hilarion: the future of Orthodoxy depends on faithfulness to the church Tradition

Your Eminence, you are a theologian rightly recognized by the scientific communities both inside and outside Russia. In your view, what are the most acute theological problems facing the Orthodox Church as a whole today? Are there problems the solution to which really determines the future of Orthodoxy?




A. Today’s Orthodox Church preserves continuity with the apostolic Christian community and in this sense she is above all a Church of the Tradition. The future of Orthodoxy depends on faithfulness to the church Tradition – the tradition that the Church has preserved in diverse historical situations through centuries.


As opposed to some liberally-minded Christian communities, the Orthodox Church does not need any rethinking or re-interpretation of her doctrinal or moral teaching. And when ecclesiastical scholars, patrologists, historians, liturgists and representatives of other disciplines, in their studies encounter some problems, these problems do not concern doctrine as such but they are specific problems arising in any serious scholarship.


However, there is one really acute and pressing problem which is quite theological, that of church mission today. In this case it is a not a matter of church message, not what the Church preaches but what needs to be done to make church preaching intelligible and effective in today’s situation. Indeed, theology is not only an in-depth study of the meaning of the Church’s dogmatic and moral teaching. It is also a proclamation, a special way of proclaiming to the world and people the truths of the faith through various means. It is not without reason that Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople, a well-known defender of the veneration of icons, used the expression ‘the melody of theology’.


Today we face the task to find such ways of expressing the church teaching as to enable us to give account of our hope to those around us who are still far from the Church or those who are on the way to it.


A particular part of this task is the work on the Catechesis carried out today under the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission.

Remember a good Jesuit

Jesuits Saints and Blesseds: Saint Claude La Colombière

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Father of Modernity? Heaven forbid!

Via Thomistica.net: Tina Beattie's series on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. The first installment is "Rediscovering a Father of Modernity."

The division into modern and premodern in relating philosophy to corresponding political trends may not be so helpful.

Beattie doesn't really explain what she means, except with the following:
"Aquinas brought to that era a synthesising brilliance with regard to texts and ideas which has left a deep imprint on western religion, politics, law and ethics."

So how does she define modernity? Catholic intellectuals would tend rather to define modernity by its rejection of what came before, including Aquinas and scholasticism.