Friday, December 19, 2014

More Different Interpretations of Pope Francis

Chiesa: Bergoglio’s Pendulum, Between Capitalism and Revolution

Marxist, libertarian, Peronist. They have applied the most disparate labels to him. The contrasting judgments of the Acton Institute and the “Friends of Pope Francis”

by Sandro Magister

The Healing


Discernment of Spirits...


Miracle Attributed to St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon


When Will They Give Up Luther and Embrace the Church Fathers?




Overstepping His Authority?

Or does the good of the Church universal require that all Christians celebrate Pascha on the same date?

Shameless Popery: Pope Victor and the Second-Century Papacy

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Amiran Goglidze


Part 8 of the Series on St. Silouan the Athonite


Salve Regina

Liturgy - Source of Missionary Life of the Church

NLM: EWTN Interview with Cardinal Burke and Bishop Rey - Sacra Liturgia - VIDEO



And yet one can ask whether conservatism of hieratic Latin as the language of the liturgy (for non-Latin speaking peoples) is compatible with the missionary spirit.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Metropolitan Kallistos on the Theologian


A New URL for Living Latin Language

Latinitatis Corpus, Reginaldo Procuratore

Dominicans and Study


Alistair Stewart on His New Book

Alistair Stewart: “Ecumenism and the Question of Apostolic Succession”

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Metropolitan Kallistos and Metropolitan Hilarion at Divine Liturgy

Metropolitan Kallistos of Diocleia and Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrate at the Church of ‘Joy of All the Afflicted’ Icon of the Mother of God


Trisagion Films Presents

(via ByzTex)





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World Over - 2014-12-11 – 'Exodus: Gods & Kings' Christian Bale and Ridley Scot with Raymond Arroyo

Monday, December 15, 2014

More Than Polemic

How the Traditional Latin Mass Fosters More Active Participation than the Ordinary Form by Peter Kwasniewski

The contributors and readers of Pray, Tell could write a response but I don't know if they would risk giving "validation" by engaging the arguments.

I still think the physical postures of the faithful for the EF were reduced over the years but it might be difficult to convince Latin traditionalists (or Latins in general) to get rid of pews to allow greater mobility. There's nothing in the piece about vocal or sung responses by the faithful (a need to preserve the Low Mass as a legitimate option?).

Who are you calling a Pharisee?

“Rigidity is a sign of a weak heart”

At this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House, Francis spoke about the “discipline” of the doctors of the law that is “rigid on the outside”, recalling how some were scandalised when Pius XII freed faithful from the Eucharistic fast
And sometimes, I confess something to you, when I have seen a Christian, a Christian of that kind, with a weak heart, not firm, not fixed on the rock—Jesus – and with such rigidness on the outside, I ask the Lord: ‘But Lord, throw a banana peel in front of them, so that they will take a good fall, and feel shame that they are sinners, and so encounter You, [and realize] that You are the Saviour. Many times a sin will make us feel shame, and make us encounter the Lord, Who pardons us, as the sick who were there and went to the Lord for healing.
What happened to "Who am I to judge?"

Well, Maybe Not Every Profession



It may be encouraging at the pastoral level but it does need some elaboration...