Pope Benedict's Final Angelus Address

Benedict XVI: I am not abandoning the Church (YT)

Último Ángelus Benedicto XVI - 24-02-2013
Ultimo ANGELUS di BENEDETTO XVI - VERSIONE INTEGRALE -
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Pope Benedict XVI's farewell Angelus: I will never abandon the Church
Catholic World Report
Zenit: On the Transfiguration
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Pope's last Angelus: I will not abandon the Church. I will serve in a different way
Saying Farewell to Benedict XVI in his last Angelus

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Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P. Has Passed.Into Eternity

Notice from Communio.

Requiescat in pace.

When Fr. William Wallace meets His Creator and Savior, who will be left to represent the River Forest School?

I didn't know Fr. Ashley had written an autobiography.

More:
How the Great Books seminar turned a radical poet into a philosopher and priest. by Benjamin Recchie, AB’03 (Ordo Praedicatorum)

The Dominicans
St. Catherine and Contemporary Spirituality

The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great
Aquinas Institute

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Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4

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More from Crisis on Benedict XVI

Benedict’s Intellectual Mentors and Students by Tracey Rowland
The Strange World of Garry Wills by Tom Piatak
Will the Next Pope Oppose the “Dictatorship of Relativism” as Fiercely as Benedict? by Dr. William Oddie

Metropolitan Hilarion Interview

in which he discusses the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI.

MosPat: Metropolitan Hilarion’s interview with the Vesti v Subbotu (News on Saturday)

The metropolitan's remarks make for a contrast with the pleas by Roberto de Mattei and Enrico Maria Radaelli - Last-Ditch Appeal: The Pope Should Withdraw His Resignation. The two traditionalists seem to have a very "high" conception of the office of the pope, but I wonder if their conception is really warranted by Sacred Tradition, or if it is tied to a brand of ultramontanism.

Two from Ethika Politika

Monks Still Matter by J. L. Liedl
With Love as Our Byword: Ecumenism, Asceticism, and the Common Good by Dylan Pahman

Tracey Roland on the Pontificate of Benedict XVI

The Pope and the Philistines by Tracey Rowland
Benedict XVI’s papacy has been one of imagination and urbanity hampered by bureaucracy

A Piece on David Schindler

Philosopher of Love by Jeremy Beer
David Schindler has a remedy for the religious right

For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up about whatever misgivings one might have? Surely not. Yet for many election cycles, this has been often implied by the self-appointed guardians of practicality and political realism. It is even increasingly heard from the pulpit.

The assumptions that lurk behind this idea are that when it comes to ordering public life, modern liberal democracy in its best sense has things basically right. America rightly understood is the highest exemplar of this kind of liberalism. And the Republican Party is our best reasonable hope for defending this liberalism’s political, economic, and cultural accomplishments from its enemies. To question these assumptions is to be naïve or—a favorite epithet—utopian.

Is it truly the case...

that Latin theology has been deficient in comparison to Eastern theology with respect to the Holy Spirit (until, maybe, rather recently)? Were the medieval theologians, both the scholastics and the monastics, lacking with respect to Pneumatology? How good, then, is Yves Congar's I Believe in the Holy Spirit?

How about the place of the Holy Spirit in the Roman-rite liturgy, which is said to be more Christocentric than the othe rites of the Church given its antiquity? (I believe this is the thesis established by Fr. Jungmann.) In contrast, could it be said that the Byzantine rite is more "Trinitarian" (or, perhaps, it gives attention or invokes both Christ and the Holy Spirit in the worship of the Father)?

Is it possible for the Roman rite to "organically" develop in such a way that it retains the Christocentric texts for certain parts of the liturgy while other texts are added or emphasized in order to draw our attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in the liturgy? (I am thinking beyond the addition of a [quasi-]epiclesis to Roman rite.)

Related:
Fr. Hunwicke: The epiclesis of the Roman Rite
Fr. Z: QUAERITUR: Epiclesis in the Roman Canon
Hogardelamadre
Discussion at the Byzantine Forum.

Orientale Lumen XVI

Someone alerted me to the fact that the audio files for Orientale Lumen XVI are available. The theme of the conference was "Theology of the Laity."

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware - What is Prayer?

From 2009 - not sure if the content is similar to his first lecture from this past weekend.

Pravmir: The Struggle of Prayer – a Short Practical Guide by Fr. Vasile Tudora

Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God by David L. Schindler (via The Imaginative Conservative)

Related: America's Technological Ontology and the Gift of the Given (pdf)

Sandro Magister Guesses

Who Will Take Up the Keys of Peter

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The War of the Two Councils: The True and the False
Pope Benedict's last great master class: Vatican II, as I saw it [full text]

Fr. Lev Gillet, The Jesus Prayer

@ Myriobiblos

Making Headway in Ecumenical Dialogue

At this point in time, would the Orthodox be willing to undertake a systematic analysis of their understanding of the offices of the bishop, metropolitan, and patriarch with the science of politics, or the study of constitutions, authority, rights and powers, and so on, as a tool? What of consent and the delegation of authority (and the question of whether such a delegation can be withdrawn - perhaps not individually but through collective action)?

To end the discussion by appealing to the canons does not seem to work, if the canons are instances of human positive law and not divinely instituted law?

A Precursor to His Work on the Russian Orthodox Catechism?

The book stand operated by HVC Bookstore had this title on display: The Mystery of Faith by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev. I will pick up a copy eventually.

Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy

Started reading Adam A. J. DeVille's Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity today - it's been quite good so far, question-provoking and containing a lot of references to other works on the subject of the papacy and the patriarchal office. There is a review by William Tighe of the book for NOR here.

If the office of patriarch and such constituted through human positive law? Tighe's review makes note of an important distinction between the office of patriarch and the primacy of the bishop of Rome in the Church Universal.