"Confession: The Path to Renewal of the Heart" ‒ A Lecture by Archimandrite Irinei (Steenberg) at the Joint Pastoral Conference in Nyack

This morning at a sale at a local Catholic bookstore, I looked through a copy of Married Priests? I don't think any new arguments are advanced regarding clerical celibacy as an ideal, and it relies on much work already done by Cochini and Heid and the like. It is unlikely, then, that this new book would successfully persuade Orthodox (and Eastern Catholics).

Related:
SACERDOTALIS CAELIBATUS
Priestly celibacy in patristics and in the history of the Church by Roman Cholij (who has since then repudiated his original position, iirc)

He has also written Theodore the Stoudite: The Ordering of Holiness.

From earlier this year: Rome to US Eastern Catholics: New Priests Should “Embrace Celibacy”

Biopic of Joseph Ratzinger to be Made

Vatican Insider: Ratzinger’s life becomes a film
An international production on the life and works of the Pope has been announced in Munich. The film is due out in 2014 and will be based on the written biography by Peter Seewald

Some Events at the DSPT Next Year

From the Events Calendar:

Natural Law - an Evening with Russell Hittinger, Jean Porter and Lloyd Weinreb
Thursday, January 31, 7 pm
Save the date to learn more about natural law from leading scholars: Russell Hittinger , William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa; Jean Porter , John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame; and Lloyd Weinreb , Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University. More details to come.

According to his brother, Dr.  Hittinger's book on Catholic social teaching (long-awaited by me) is finished and will be published soon. I haven't seen any information on it yet.
And the 2013 Aquinas Lecture:

The 23rd Annual Aquinas Lecture - Baptismal Theology and Practice in the Age of St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Augustine Thompson, OP
Wednesday, February 27, 7.30 pm
Fr. Augustine will examine new discoveries about the liturgical and social significance of baptism in the cities of thirteenth-century Italy and compare them with the development of the theology of baptism from the 12th century to Thomas Aquinas in the late 13th.

Metropolitan Tikhon Visits St. Vladimir's Seminary
Metropolitan Tikhon’s Inaugural Visit to Seminary Includes Guest Cardinal Dolan

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Related:
SVOTS Dean Lectures in Toronto, and Serves in London at Anniversary Liturgy

For the Feast of St. Andrew

For Bartholomew, the ecumenical journey is "irreversible"


Pope: Catholics and Orthodox, witnesses of the Gospel to the world that has lost faith in God

Contemporary Monasticism, God’s Will, and Everyday Life: A Conversation with Archimandrite Tikhon

Subsidiarity in the Tradition of Catholic Social Doctrine by Patrick Brennan (via MoJ)

By what definition of heresy?

The custodian of faith on the “heretical interpretations” of the Council

“There’s Plenty of Freedom, But Little Truth”: Solzhenitsyn Remembered by Archpriest Nikolai Chernyshev

TAC as an Example of Subsidiarity?

Fr. Joseph Illo, Subsidiarity

Vatican II: The History and the Narratives by Massimo Faggioli

Fr. Florovsky on St. John Chrysostom

Pravmir: St. John Chrysostom: The Prophet of Charity

More at Pravmir with Fr. Gabriel Bunge

Theological Study, the Spiritual Life, and Russia Today: A Conversation with Fr. Gabriel (Bunge)

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI homily for the ceremony to create six new cardinals

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas

Looks good.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested (OUP US)

Via the FB page for the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society

Vindictive Versus Rehabilitative

Vatican Insider: Pope: “Justice fails if prison fails to re-educate”

Should a punishment itself be meant to be rehabilitative? (In so far as it may be the occassion of repentence.) One must prepare the offender or criminal for reintegration into society, and supply the moral formation that he may not have received. But I would not consider this to be a part of the punishment itself, but a necessary supplement required by civic friendship and social justice.

Akathist of Thanksgiving

Dr. Glen Coughlin on Time

“Musings on Time”

New City Press

I was looking at the New City Press website since the company is the publisher of two books, one of which I mentioned on this blog. St. Augustine is prominent. There's another book from New City Press in which I am interested, but I can't remember the title - I think it is on economics. I'll have to look it up at the OLOP gift store. Anyway, I didn't know the company is associated with Focolare.

Orthodoxy by Paul Evdokimov

Focolare US
You Are Peter by Olivier Clément on sale now.