Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Proof, So the Popularizers Say


Post by TED.

Monday, March 31, 2014

The Anaphoral Genesis


Pope Francis: We Must Open Ourselves to Christ's Light


Lecio Divina With the Lectionary of the New Roman Missal?


Sunday, March 30, 2014

NLM: The Sunday (and Feast) of St John Climacus
Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music: Symposium | Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm

Friday, March 28, 2014

The Human Dignity Canard

Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World by S. Adam Seagrave
We may, nevertheless, recognize a grain of truth in the moderns’ appreciation of the moral status of the individual human being. That appreciation coheres well with Christian moral theology but not with pre-modern moral and political philosophy. The moderns’ mistaken rejection of the unchanging objective contexts within which the individual exists led, in the thought of a select few, to a more profound understanding of human dignity than is available in any of the pre-moderns—including Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Locke’s nuanced and complex understanding of natural rights, in particular, provides an important philosophical elaboration on the Biblical account of humankind’s creation “in the image and likeness” of God. In tomorrow's article, I will examine this concept in greater depth.

Do we need a concept of dignity in order to have a full account of human flourishing and man's ultimate end? Or to explain the basis of charity or justice? I don't think so.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

What is a citizen?



As bishops have always spoken? A naive assumption of duties with respect to the secular powers?

Pilgrimage Schedule for the Bishop of Rome to the Holy Land


Wednesday, March 26, 2014

This Should Be Published


Monday, March 24, 2014

Waiting for Her to Retire

That will probably happen before the archbishop of Boston cleans up Boston College.


Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Canonization of Saints: Limits to the Papal Office?

Chiesa: Vatican Diary / In a few months, six new saints canonized outside the rules

Can the pope, though, propose someone for veneration by the Church Universal without proper consultation and discernment from the bishops of other churches? If there is no cultus, how can this be possible? (How is the current procedure different from what was followed in the first millenium, when Latin saints, e.g. St. Gregory the Great and St. Benedict, were recognized by the Byzantine churches?)

I would guess that the official pronouncement makes a reference to the entire Church, rather than to the Latin churches, but is this proper? Can we understand the canonizations done by the bishop of Rome, either directly or mediately through other Latin bishops acting in his name, as being done through his role as Western "patriarch" rather than as pope, despite any official statements to the contrary?

Monday, March 17, 2014

Sunday, March 16, 2014

St. Gregory Palamas & the Challenge of Barlaam

Academic lecture presented by the Very Reverend Protopresbyter Maxym Lysack.


Thursday, March 13, 2014

A Mysterious Encounter with Fr. Jacque Philippe


The hermeneutic of continuity: Questioning the Orthodox solution on divorce and remarriage

The hermeneutic of continuity: Questioning the Orthodox solution on divorce and remarriage

Sandro Magister's Assessment

Bergoglio, the General Who Wants to Win without Fighting
"I have never understood the expression 'nonnegotiable values,'” he said in his latest interview. And in a book, his closest collaborator explains why Pope Francis is carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the dominant culture