One Statement Against Plastic Surgery

NYT: Catholics, Plastic Surgery, and ‘the Truth of the Feminine Self’

Beauty

Beauty is the convincing power of truth. I just love that!

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, June 15, 2015

Men in Black

Why the black attire? This is well explained.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Sunday, June 14, 2015

Who Leaked It and Why?

Italian magazine publishes leaked version of pope’s eco-encyclical

Eastern Christian Books: Asceticism as Cure for Consumerism: An Interview with Fr. Gregory Jensen

Eastern Christian Books: Asceticism as Cure for Consumerism: An Interview with Fr. Gregory Jensen

English Translation of Cardinal Sarah's Article for OR

Rorate Caeli: Exclusive Rorate translation: Cardinal Sarah's article for L'Osservatore Romano on the Traditional Missal and the Paul VI Missal

The Spirit of the "Innovators"

Pray Tell: Archbishop John Quinn in Interview

What are your thoughts on liturgical translations?

I think, first of all, I would raise the question why we need translations. Why is it not possible to have liturgical books fashioned in the country itself? Now I realize that in a world of rapid travel there have to be some common formulations that are used, and that certainly should be kept in mind. But I don’t see why, for example, the prayers of the Mass (e.g., the Collect) have to be a translation of a Roman prayer. They could be formulated in the language of the country. English speakers could prepare their own prayers. If we have to have translations, they should be done and approved by the English-speaking episcopates themselves.

What do you think of our new 2011 missal translation? What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Well I myself, and it is my personal view, think it is not English as we use it. It’s too complicated, it’s very difficult to speak. People can’t understand what is being said, I don’t think. I don’t know that is has any strengths. I find it hard to think of its strengths.

My idea of translation is that you take something in a text and say it the way we say it in English, not that you try to retain the style and structure and flavor of another language.

Eastern Christian Books: John the Damascene

Eastern Christian Books: John the Damascene

Kerygma and Didache

Posted by Louis Bouyer on Sunday, June 14, 2015

Laudare, Benedicere, Praedicare: Official Hymn of the Jubilee of the Order of Preachers.

Bad Latin music is still being created...

Interpreting Scripture Properly

According to the Church Fathers -- does this book help or hinder a return to the Fathers?

While incorrect biblical interpretation and false images of God are older than Christianity, Benedictine Father Mark Sheridan focuses on how Early Church writers wrestled with the problem.

Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, June 13, 2015

An Ontology of Love: A Patristic Reading of Dietrich von Hildebrand's "The Nature of Love."

More on Eberhard Schockenhoff

Rorate Caeli: The Neo-Modernist Theology of Eberhard Schockenhoff

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Who’s Afraid of the Theology of the Body? by Donna Bethell

An Unified Date for Pascha?

«La Chiesa potrebbe stabilire una data fissa per la Pasqua»
Francesco: «Così cattolici, ortodossi e protestanti potrebbero festeggiare nello stesso giorno» Finora è una festività mobile, legata al ciclo lunare: le regole stabilite dal Concilio di Nicea nel 325.

"Pasqua in una data fissa" Il Papa apre agli ortodossi

Cardinal Sarah's Comments on the Roman Rite

Silenziosa azione del cuore di Robert Sarah

Per leggere e applicare la costituzione del Vaticano II sulla sacra liturgia. Da "L'Osservatore Romano" del 12 giugno 2015. L'autore è cardinale prefetto della congregazione per il culto divino e la disciplina dei sacramenti

(comments at Rorate Caeli)

Reaction at Pray Tell.

Part 2 of Raymond Arroyo's Interview with Cardinal Kasper

Full episode


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German Bishops have Prepared the Way for a De Facto Schism by Marie Meaney

Holy Order and the First Holy Qurbana (Fr Joseph Puthoor)

Jesus Prayer

Watch this.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, June 12, 2015

The video does not explain what is dangerous, namely the use of psychosomatic techniques in conjunction with the prayer without a spiritual father.

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware | Orthodox-Evangelical Dialogue: What Have We to Learn from One Another?

From 2011

Decision Reached by the Joint Meeting of the Committees for Dialogue of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church With Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate