Monday, July 14, 2014

Two on Canonizations by Rome

Rorate Caeli: So... Canonizations... Infallible or not?

Some similar thoughts from Fr. Hunwicke: Definition and Dogma

Sunday, July 13, 2014

St. Nicholas National Shrine, NYC


A Balthasar Quote


Another Interview and Another "Clarification"





Rorate Caeli: Pope's 3rd "conversation" with Italian liberal journalist E. Scalfari - Vatican spokesman blames Scalfari, Repubblica criticizes the Vatican - Don't shoot the Messenger

Word to Life


Saturday, July 12, 2014

Homily of His Eminence Metropolitan Stefanos of Kallioupolis and Madytos



Matteo Ricci as a Bridge, Once More?

Chiesa: Francis Has an Offer in Store for China: A New Blessed by Sandro Magister
It will be the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, one of the very few Westerners honored by the Chinese communist authorities. But the thaw between Beijing and the Church of Rome still seems to be a long way off

More Hot Air


Anthony Rizzi on EWTN Live

From December 2013:

Friday, July 11, 2014

Another "Defection"

Others would go so far to call it schism. I wonder what Fr. Taft thinks of his decision. Catholic Priest Constantine Simon Converts to Orthodoxy. Apparently he's not a Latin who went "native," but has an Eastern Christian heritage. I don't know what his reasons are for converting, though he apparently does talk about them in his interview (in Russian - links below). May God's will be done.

Byzcath

Minding Rome? Or is the church in another part of Italy?


For the Feast of St. Benedict on the New Calendar

March 21 on the old Roman calendar, March 14 on the Byzantine.



Thursday, July 10, 2014

The Future of the Vatican Bank


An Essay on Father Lev Gillet by Élisabeth Behr-Sigel

Élisabeth Behr-Sigel. Père Lev Gillet : La crise et le dénouement

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Sungenis Responds to Keating

Here.

If he's focusing on astronomical models and their implications on philosophy, it would make sense he wouldn't want people to be "turned off" or side-tracked by his apologetical work.

Zachary Hayes

Requiescat in pace.


Will This Placate the Church's Critics?


A Spiritual Interpretation of the Divine Liturgy


Better than counting sheep


"Pope and Patriarch: Future Opportunities"