Thursday, September 08, 2016

In Good Shape or Bad Shape?



An Icon of the Theotokos

The 12 Great Feasts

The Nativity of the Theotokos

Adam's Sin

What of Cardinal Parolin?

How will history judge him when this pontificate is a memory?



Not a Latin!

Metaphysically Problematic



If he's not speaking literally, it's very sloppy.

Then again, perhaps we should blame the one who is doing the tweeting for Pope Francis. The Latin version seems better:

Previews of Benedict XVI's New Book

Benedikt XVI. bricht sein Schweigen (English translation at Catholic Conclave)

"SZ": Benedikt XVI. kritisiert in neuem Buch katholische Kirche in Deutschland (English translation)



The Catholic Thing: Pope Francis in Conciliar Context by Howard Kainz

OAJ Interview with Seraphim O'Keefe

Religious Freedom and the Security State

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Guardian of Scripture

Chiesa: Ecumenists Out of the House. But Inside It’s a Melee

Big smiles with Constantinople and Moscow. But a heavy hand with the Byzantine oases in the West. The emblematic cases of the Italo-Albanian dioceses and the monastery of Grottaferrata

Eastern Christian Books: Between Sanity and Sanctity

Eastern Christian Books: Between Sanity and Sanctity

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

CWR: Pope Francis, Henri de Lubac, and the Decentralizing of Church Authority
The Holy Father wants to enhance the authority of episcopal conferences. But one of his theological lodestones warned of the dangers of such an approach—dangers come to fruition in countries such as Germany.
By Dr. Samuel Gregg

Monday, September 05, 2016

Mother of God

Saw a print of the archangel "Uriel" hanging on the wall of the parish residence yesterday; I didn't think it had been sanctioned but maybe it's an older print.

From 2002: Vatican bans rogue angels

Saint Hermione

Neo-Gothic FSSP Temple in Denver

NLM: Completing the Gothic Aesthetic of a Parish Church by Peter Kwasniewski

I like the sketches; the interior looks like it will be colorful... but I can't still identify with neo-Gothic.