BBC: In pictures: Orthodox Christmas celebrations
Vatican Insider

A New Grammar for the Year of Faith - with a piece from Fr. Robert Imbelli.

Brian Douglass on the Right to Self-Defense

The Question of a Right to Self-Defense

Christian Order

The website appears to be lagging less in updates, but limited content is available online. There is this article by James Likoudis, published in March of last year: MUHAMMED II, THE SCOURGE OF CHRISTENDOM, AND THE BYZANTINE SCHISM

I see that it was originally published in The Wanderer.

There is this editorial from May, regarding Vatican 2 and the SSPX.

Yet as we have often documented with a heavy heart, the Holy Father's commitment to the Vatican II vehicle he helped engineer is itself a stumbling block. Was it really necessary to place the defense of that problematic pastoral Council and its texts (often ambiguous, contradictory or superficial as he readily admits) at the very centre of discussions? After all, SSPX objections merely echo similar concerns voiced by eminent theologians who also accept the validity of the Council while decrying its subversive content and purpose. The highly esteemed Msgr Bruno Gherardini, to cite just one, insists that “Modernism hid itself under the cloak of Vatican II,” and that “Modernist corruption has hidden itself within the Council documents themselves.” The ongoing harvest of rotten Conciliar fruits, therefore, cannot all be attributed to rebellious appeals to a bogus "spirit of Vatican II." That malign "spirit" is often spelt out by the slippery "letter" of the Council itself; in weasel-worded phrases like "The Church of God subsists in the Catholic Church," instead of ‘The Church of God is the Catholic Church.’ As a wag observed: Anybody can say "is." Only an expensive lawyer can say "subsists."

Regardless, Tùbingen Benedict's unflagging devotion to the Council has not dampened Bavarian Benedict's yearning to have its most severe critics piped aboard the mangled Barque of Peter — "a boat about to sink," he warned dramatically in 2005, "a boat taking in water on all sides." It seems that the Benedictine anomaly is trumped by this pressing corporate reality, requiring all hands on deck — even those "sectarian" zealots he once felt "we cannot resist too firmly" [Principles of Catholic Theology, 1987, pp. 389-90].

Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ Reviews IP's ENCHIRIDION SYMBOLORUM

Here. (via Insight Scoop)

Bloopers Reel for Orthodox in Dixie

Journey to the Midwest?

Maybe a retreat at Holy Transfiguration Skete would be nice. Or Holy Resurrection Monastery?

Zenit: ARCHBISHOP NICHOL'S STATEMENT ON PASTORAL CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SAME-SEX ATTRACTIONS IN LOCAL PARISH

"This Care has been Motivated by an Awareness of the Difficulties and Isolation they can Experience and by the Imperative of Christ's Love for all"

Yale Courses: Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118)

Contemporary Communitarianism (Alasdair MacIntyre)





19. The Burkean Outlook

James Chastek on Nominalism

Two posts today: first and second parts.

Alasdair MacIntyre - Ends and Endings

A lecture at CUA from 2009.

Orthodox in Dixie

Here is the full movie:

(ROCOR Eastern American Diocese)

Saints Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria Institute for Orthodox Studies: Prayer in the Church Fathers, with Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia

In Northern California (San Francisco): 16th-17th February, 2013

A lecture on the Jesus Prayer.

From 4 years ago:

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware at St Botolphs from Antiochian Orthodox on Vimeo.

On Behalf of All: The Eucharistic Liturgy in Ancient House Churches

Back, for now. Will post my plans for the year when I have some time.

Zenit: Pope's Homily at Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God [2013-01-02]

Zenit: ON THE FEAST OF ST. STEPHEN
"St. Stephen is a Model for All Those Who Want to Serve the New Evangelization"

Rome Reports - Review of January 2012

Rome Reports: January 2012: Pope approves several liturgies of the Neocatechumenal Way

Rome Reports: Urbi et Orbi: Benedict XVI issues Christmas greeting in over 65 languages and includes message to China


Zenit: On the Visitation
"Let us Strive Again to Make Room in our Hearts to Welcome the Christ Dhild with Love and Humility"
Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message
"Truth has Sprung Up, Bringing Kindness, Justice and Peace"
Benedict XVI's Christmas Eve Homily
"What would happen if Mary and Joseph were to knock at my door"

Chant Cafe: The Musical Portions of the Christmas Vigil

Misc.
Friend Honors Author Who Criticized Abuse of Vatican II
Michael Davies Was a 'Man of the Church'

Should be leaving today for AZ. Be back next week.

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