Celebrating Fr. Buckley's Golden Jubilee: 50 Years in the Priesthood

Rod Dreher, St. Benedict on Mt. Athos (which contains a link to this 2009 post at Logismoi)

Sandro Magister, Gregory the Great Speaks English
The encounter in Rome between Benedict XVI and the primate of the Anglicans has taken place under the banner of the great pope who evangelized Britannia. With Ratzinger and Williams, ecumenism is abandoning tactics and getting to the substance

Christopher Malloy, A sinner free from a key dimension of concupiscence?

Who said the spirit of Latinization was dead?

Rorate Caeli: Are the traditional Eastern liturgies an obstacle to the "New Evangelization"?

When members of ecclesial movements that were formed within the Roman rite enter the East, do they bring a Vatican II chauvinism with them? Do they appeal to the Holy Spirit to claim that their brand of spirituality is superior to what has been sustaining those who have been living under oppression for so long?

Holy Cross Faculty Members Address Students at Kodiak's St. Herman's Seminary

Elder Cleopa on the Eight Sources of Temptation
If You Want to Find out if Someone Loves Christ, Find out if He Loves Monasticism

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

TAC: “The Pope’s Theologian”
An Interview with Rev. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., Theologian of the Papal Household

Been wondering if I should buy some Bertrand de Jouvenel. Liberty Fund publishes some of his books, and ISI has an introductory guide.

Bertrand de Jouvenel’s melancholy liberalism by BRIAN C. ANDERSON

CNA: Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments by David Kerr

The beginning of the change in order in which sacraments are received by Roman-rite Catholics?

Dr. Fleming's latest: Afghan Justice:

Here in the enlightened West, we know that the purpose of a criminal justice system is two-fold: to rehabilitate the criminal and protect the public. It was not always so. The ancients believed that a criminal act--murder, assault, robbery, rape--put the universe out of joint. The purpose of punishment was to put it right again. Killers are killed, robbers robbed, beaters beaten.

It was not always so simple as "an eye for an eye," and Roman and Christian law made allowances for motives, circumstances, and appropriateness of punishment, but they never forgot the primary purpose of punishment was retribution or, to use a simpler word, vengeance.

Leftist Christians will howl in protest, citing, "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord," little understanding that the same Lord, according to St. Paul, delegates the power to punish evil to the rulers of the world. Not in vain, Paul declared in an authoritative chapter of Romans, does the ruler hold the sword, nor is it a terror to the good but only to the wicked. It follows that a ruler who casts away the sword on a humanitarian whim is no longer a legitimate ruler. The Church always begged for mercy in specific cases, but never disputed the right and duty of kings and parliaments to execute criminals.

Even Imanuel Kant, who got most things wrong, saw through the lies of all the liberal theories of punishment:

"Judicial punishment can never be used solely as a means to promote some other good for the criminal himself or for society, but instead must in all cases be imposed on a person solely on the ground that he has committed a crime....woe to him who rummages around in the winding paths of a theory of happiness looking for some advantage to be gained by releasing the criminal from punishment or by reducing the amount of it....Even if civil society were to dissolve itself by common agreement of all its members...the last murderer remaining in prison must be executed, so that everyone will duly receive what his actions are worth and so that the bloodguilt thereof will not be fixed on the people because they failed to insist on carrying out the punishment; for if they fail to do so, they may be regarded as accomplices in this public violation of legal justice.”

Chiara Luce Badano Movie Trailer


From 2010: Chiara Luce Badano to be Beatified Just 19 Years After Her Death
Beatification of Chiara Luce
Chiara Luce - The Wave
Focolare

Rob Vischer reviews Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality by Richard Thompson Ford (via Mirror of Justice)

Thomistica.net: The Salmanticenses Enter the Digital Age

Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, and Singular Number

Heroes Not Zombies: The Science Delusion. Rupert Sheldrake

Ancient Faith Radio podcasts

Doctrine Matters - Part 1 (mp3)
Fr. Andrew points out there are 3 disciplines of Orthodoxy - Doctrine, Piety, and Morality. However he is concerned that the first - Doctrine - occupies a back seat in many Orthodox circles.


St. Ephraim's Prayer

Thomistica.net: New Document from the International Theological Commission

The document: “Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles, and Criteria” (also at Zenit)

Via Insight Scoop: Tough Questions, Timeless Moral Truths
An interview with Fr. Brian Mullady about same-sex marriage, contraception, the death penalty, and other pressing moral issues

NLM: Book Notice: The Voice of the Church at Prayer, Fr. Uwe Michael Lang