Rorate Caeli: Mystici Corporis at 70 - I
The true Church of Christ is the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church

Yesterday's Address at the General Audience

On the People of God
Pope Francis: Christ Calls you to be the People of God
Pope Francis Says Upcoming Encyclical on Faith is Nearly Complete

Pope Francis: Only the Holy Spirit leads us forward


Pope at Mass: The grace not to speak ill of others

Vatican News: Cardinal Koch in Ukraine: Goal of Ecumenism "Visible Communion"

(Vatican Radio)The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, gave a lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, on June 10 on “Prospects of the Ecumenical Dialogue Between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches."

According to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU), Cardinal Kurt Koch focused on the discussion of one of the most painful and key issues of Orthodox-Catholic relations – the primacy of the bishop of Rome.Cardinal Koch explained that "from the Orthodox point of view, the church is present in every local church that celebrates the Eucharist, so each Eucharistic community is a complete church. Instead, from the Catholic point of view, a separate Eucharistic community is not a complete church. Therefore, a basis of the Catholic Church is the unity of separate Eucharistic communities with each other and the bishop of Rome. That is, the Catholic Church lives in the mutual intersection of local churches in one universal church.”

According to the cardinal, “the most important thing is not to lose sight of the goal of ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which, at least from the Catholic point of view, can consist only in the restoration of a visible communion of churches.”

Two Perspectives on Rights

Cardinal Angelo Scola: Rights-in-Relation by Stratford Caldecott

Thomas Jefferson on Rights and Duties by Paul Crimley Kuntz

Fr. Cessario to Be Conferred With the Degree of Master of Sacred Theology

Along with two other Dominicans - MASTERS OF SACRED THEOLOGY by Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P.

Cappella Romana - First Ode of the Canon - LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople To California

Romeyka, A Dialect of Greek

Endangered language opens window on to past (w/ Video)

Dr Ioanna Sitaridou - Cambridge - Language Sciences



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Amazon page.

The World: Chanting in Bodbe, Georgia

Byzantine Sacred Architecture

Nicholas Patricios, The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches (I.B. Tauris, September 2013), 384pp. (via Eastern Christian Books)

Vatican Diary / The scourge of divorce between bishop and diocese

Can't a case be made that much of this careerism (and the possibility of transfer upon which it relies) is due to the centralization of the Western Patriarchate?

Vatican Insider: Claire, the woman who became a Christian in Pol Pot’s Cambodian killing fields


The book about the story of the Cambodian exile is being presented at the Vicenza Bible Festival

Some relative inexpensive copies (less than $50) of Fr. Taft's Divine Liturgies: Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine (Hardback) available through ABE.

The Light of the Desert (Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt)

A Pricey Volume

113 pounds

I had forgotten that there was a Centre for Eastern Christian Studies at the International Theological Institute. I was looking through the news section and found this from From February of last year:

On 16th February the Eastern Centre hosted Dr Judith Ryder of Wolfson College, Oxford. She addressed the ITI and a number of other visitors from the wider academic and ecclesiastical communities on the topic 'Demetrius Kydones: Statesman and Thomist in the Twilight of Byzantium'. Demetrius Kydones and his brother Prochorus were amongst the most prominent of the Byzantine Thomists of the fourteenth century. Kydones also served as Mesazōn (Prime Minister) to three Byzantine Emperors. Personally in communion with theHoly See, he worked to accomplish the (canonical and intellectual) reunification of Byzantium and Rome and to obtain the assistance of a Crusade for the Empire ever more threatened by the rise of the Ottoman Turks. Dr Ryder persuasively argued that for Kydones the key to his task was the effort toconvince his fellow Byzantines that they must remain in dialogue not just with each other but with both the Latin Fathers and their Western contemporaries. Dr Ryder is currently working on eleventh century Byzantium. Her study of Kydones "The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones" (2010) is published by Brill.

Has anyone done a review of her book on Demetrius Kydones?

The Installation of Bishop Borys Gudziak

From February 2012:

Rome Reports: Benedict XVI: 'I'm fine. I live like a monk'

Rome Reports: Pope Francis: Idolatry is dangerous. God is the one true Lord

Thomistica.net: Taparelli's magnum opus available from La Civiltà Cattolica

Taparelli is perhaps best remembered (if at all) for his contribution to the concept of subsidiarity and for coining the term “social justice” (giustizia sociale). His understanding of social justice is not exactly the same as our contemporary notion of it. Thomas Burke (one of the few people who write about Taparelli in English — Thomas Behr is another) has this to say about Taparellian social justice:

It is one of the ironies of history that the quintessentially “liberal” idea of “social justice,” as it was to become (in American terminology), should have been originated by an ardent conservative … Unlike the conception of social justice generally accepted in our society at the present time, which is socialist and difficult, if not impossible, to harmonize with our ordinary conception of justice, Taparelli’s conception 1) is simply the ordinary and traditional conception of justice applied in a new area, namely the constitutional arrangements of society, 2) does not apply to states of affairs in society that could exist independently of human actions, 3) constitutes a defense of societal inequality, and 4) is conservative.

I will have to read Thomas Burke's paper.

Communio: Milan Lach nominated auxiliary bishop of Presov

Some photos of the ordination: Vysviacka pomocného biskupa Milana Lacha.

I am curious as to what Anthony Rizzi does with Newtonian Mechanics in his textbook but as it is priced like a textbook I won't find out for a while.

Turns out he was on Coast to Coast AM back in 2004.