Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music: Symposium | Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:45pm to 5:15pm
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Little?
What Can a Modern Philosopher Teach Us About Natural Law? by S. Adam Seagrave
Labels:
human dignity,
Jacques Maritain,
John Locke,
Leo Strauss,
liberalism,
natural law,
rights,
Straussian
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Human Dignity Canard
Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World by S. Adam Seagrave
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.
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?
Post by Ignatius Press.
As bishops have always spoken? A naive assumption of duties with respect to the secular powers?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Waiting for Her to Retire
Labels:
academia,
academic freedom,
Boston College,
feminism,
heresy,
Jesuits
Thursday, March 20, 2014
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?
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?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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
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
"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
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