Matt Fradd on the Jesus Prayer

RISU: THE ARCHBISHOP OF TELMESSOS JOB (GETCHA): AUTOCEPHALY IS A WAY OF ENSURING THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF A STATE, AS WELL AS THE UNITY BETWEEN THE LOCAL CHURCHES

Including Paul the Sad

The Seven in Heaven: Meet the new saints to be canonized this weekend


PAUL VI AND THE CANONIZATION OF VATICAN II by Jake Neu

No in-depth look at the Pauline reform of the Roman Missal and its consequences.

"By canonizing John XXIII, John Paul II, and Paul VI, Pope Francis is embracing Vatican II and the changes it wrought in religious practice, devotion, the liturgy, administration, external relationships, and general outlook."

He already embraced Vatican II, or rather, a particular interpretation of it, and this is what is being pushed in the canonizations.

Edit. Guest Note: "Paul VI: the 'Pastoral' Canonization of the Spirit of Vatican II" -- by Fr. Pio Pace

One doesn't have to agree with the Latin traditionalists on liturgy and liturgical practice before he can agree with them on the Latin "progressives" and their attempt to claim Vatican II as their own. (Although there would be disagreement as to whether the progressive interpretation is the clear meaning of all of the texts, and intended unanimously by those drafting the documents.)

First Things: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2018: #8
October 12, 2018 / by Xavier Rynne II
The eighth in a series of reports on Synod-2018.

Amen.

CWR Dispatch: Ouellet, Viganó, and the true beauty of the Crucified One by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
If Cardinal Ouellet, widely acknowledged as a brilliant theologian, wishes to follow Mother Theresa and “do something beautiful for God,” then I think there is only one thing needful.

CWR: Prominent Catholic astronomers discuss the proposed “Hubble-Lemaître Law” by Justin McClain, O.P.
“Hubble and Lemaître brought different and complementary insights to what would come to be known as Hubble’s law — Hubble the observations, and Lemaître the model of the cosmos that obeys that law. But Lemaître got there first.”

First Things: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2018: #7
October 11, 2018 / by Xavier Rynne II
The seventh in a series of reports on Synod-2018.

CWR Dispatch: The cerberus of clerical sexual misconduct: a canonical overview by Edward N. Peters
It behooves all to understand what canon law does, and does not, say about these matters so that discussion of responses to the crisis may proceed more efficiently.

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Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia and Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro in Papal Disfavor?

Sandro Magister: A New Team, or Rather Two, at the Vatican, on Life and Family Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, and the chancellor of the same.

Beautiful

Philip Lawler on Cardinal Ouellet's Open Letter

On McCarrick scandal, Vatican responses are tardy, not reassuring By Phil Lawler

(via Rod Dreher)

SJWs Claim Another Scalp

Rod Dreher, Catholic Thoughtcriminal Forced Out At OU Law

First Things: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2018: #6
October 10, 2018 / by Xavier Rynne II
The sixth in a series of reports on Synod-2018.

First Things: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2018: #5
October 9, 2018 / by Xavier Rynne II
The fifth in a series of reports on Synod-2018.

A Monastery

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First Things: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2018: #4
October 8, 2018 / by Xavier Rynne II
The fourth in a series of reports on Synod-2018.

Interview with Archbishop Sample

Posting this more on his reflections about prayer and reverence in liturgical praxis than his apologia for the EF in Latin or his theology of Holy Orders (as I disagree with both). Young Latin Catholics have been deprived of much, but who is going to provide them with what they need?

Maybe the Anglican Ordinariates.

Not a Promising Future

Disappointing

I expected more from Cardinal Ouellet.

CNA: Cardinal Ouellet: Vigano in ‘open and scandalous rebellion’ against Pope Francis

Edward Pentin

CWR: Cardinal Ouellet’s letter forceful, but does not provide substantial refutation by Christopher R. Altieri

Will the Review Be Credible and Trustworthy?

CNA: Pope Francis orders review of Vatican McCarrick files

CWR: Analysis: Pope’s ‘thorough study’ of McCarrick files unlikely to satisfy by Christopher R. Altieri
This “thorough study” could be a very little step in the right direction — certainly too little and arguably too late.