Reflecting the Dominant Latin Ecclesiology Regarding the Role of the Bishop of Rome...

CWR Dispatch: Cupich and Scicluna hit their talking points, but are silent on key problems by Christopher R. Altieri

Throughout recent interviews, both Cardinal Cupich and Archbishop Scicluna convey a persistent attitude of denial regarding the role of the bishops in the ongoing crisis.

What Would He Say About the Modern Roman Canonization Process?

John Henry Newman, conversion, and the papacy by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille

Symbol of the Western Captivity?

Is that how the Russian Orthodox view Solovyov/Soloviev?

Church Life: Solovyov’s Russia and the Catholic Church by Andrew Kuiper

But Cupich must be OK since the "American Church" doesn't like him!

So let's have him be on the organizing committee!

CWR Dispatch: The Vatican obfuscates even while preparing for February meeting on abuse by Christopher R. Altieri
One would have to be blind not to see the infiltration of clerical ranks — even in the episcopate, even in the Roman Curia — by active homosexuals for whom their collars are little more than cover.

Where's the Official English Translation?

CWR: The Youth Synod and the birth of the Synodal Church by Thomas R. Ascik
The Synod of Bishops concluded a month ago, but the final document—in which “synodality” is by far the major and most clearly laid out theme—has still not been translated.

Confusing an Ecclesial Issue with a Political One

If those in east Ukraine wish to secede, why force them to stay through violence?

CWR Dispatch: Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Post-truth: An Orthodox Perspective by Fr. Cyril Hovorun
Right from the start of the 2014 events, we in Ukraine experienced the Russian version of post-truth. And over time, we developed some expertise in discerning where truth stops and post-truth begins.

Fr. Rutler on the China Situation

Crisis: A Nursery Rhyme Pope Francis Would Do Well to Read by FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER

More on the Reform of the Roman Rite

Crisis: 50 Years of Effete and Infertile Liturgical Culture Is Enough BY ANTHONY ESOLEN
Last Sunday I was away from home; this normally means trouble. It means I do not attend Mass at the chapel of Saint Thomas More College, which is where I teach, [...]

Eternal Memory.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller with Raymond Arroyo

full episode

More Potential Pastoral Problems?

In connection with this post.

If the sacraments of initiation are limited to those infants whose parents are ready and willing to bear the responsibility of educating them, then will the children of those who have not been initiated be left out? Will their parents be judged by their brethren as being inadequate Christians? In order to avoid this problem, should the sacraments of initiation therefore be given to all infants, even if the parents are less than able to provide a proper formation for their children? Or should they be delayed for all children until they attain the age of reason, or after that point, when they are able to choose the faith and profess it? The question of "maturity" or intentionality in faith and how the sacraments of initiation are related to it is perhaps one that needs to be asked not only by those in the patriarchate of Rome but by the members of the other patriarchates as well.

Hart on Translating the NT Greek

Church Life: Spirits, Souls… Tunics? by David Bentley Hart
I do not pretend to have any firm conviction regarding the argument I intend to advance here; but I do find myself haunted by a curious suspicion I find...

Theology of Baptism

and theology of the authority of the Church...

Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Vatican II and Crisis in the Theology of Baptism" by Thomas Pink (via Peter Kwasniewski)

Re: the importance or necessity of exorcism -- is the accompanying theology of "sovereignty" of the devil over the unbaptized an established part of the Faith, or is it just a theological opinion? And how should it be understood?

Aidan Hart Video

Shut Theology Deparments Down...

Church Life: The Crisis of Catholic Moral Theology by Charles C. Camosy

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Liturgical Notes on the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Creating a Better Lord's Prayer

Sandro Magister: “And Do Not Abandon Us To Temptation.” A Critical Commentary

Holy Edmund, Pray for Us!

Pravoslavie: ON THE FEAST OF ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR
Commemorated November 20/December 3

They took the corpse and head, set them in a hastily-built hut-chapel and immediately miracles began. A light was seen over the tomb, the blind and the sick were healed. Miraculously the head became joined to the body, with only a red scar marking the place of the cruel cut between torso and head. Local people came as pilgrims to venerate Edmund's relics, which remained intact and incorrupt.