PHOTO of the day: This is how our beloved Benedict XVI looked when he traveled to Germany this morning to accompany his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who is very ill. The two brothers celebrated Mass together. Let us keep them in our prayers! 📸Courtesy: Fondazione Ratzinger pic.twitter.com/tFGc9mTbml
— EWTN News Nightly (@EWTNNewsNightly) June 18, 2020
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Lord Have Mercy
A Latin Psalter
A glorious Latin Psalter created for an Archbishop of Trier, which came with a princess into Kyiv, where some 11th century Old Rus pictures were added, brilliant golden Byzantine illuminations of saints and princes. Today Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico CXXXVI. pic.twitter.com/26EwdJ2hsV
— Arthur Westwell (@ArthurWestwell) June 18, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Dr. William Diem, Dr. Matthew Dugandzic, and Fr. Dylan Schrader Discuss Usury
The newest episode of Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology is now available. On this episode, Dr. William Diem, Dr. @MDugandzic, and @FrDylanSchrader discuss usury. https://t.co/Eg6yTLVOXR
— The Sacra Doctrina Project (@sacradoctrina) June 16, 2020
Joshua Hochschild Reviews Three Books
The Intellectual Vocation
Princeton University Press: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Princeton University Press Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
Penguin Press: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs
Princeton University Press: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Princeton University Press Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
Penguin Press: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Diligence
A playful and compelling piece by @NotoriousTIB. I especially appreciate that she ends with the inimitable Gerard Manley Hopkins, who really is the most attentive poet I've read, both to language and to the realities language seeks to describe.https://t.co/5GrZwyj66U
— Onsi A. Kamel (@onsikamel) June 12, 2020
Byzantium and the Steppes
Video-presentation: #Byzantium and the #Steppes in the 6th to 7th centuries CE: #Avars, #Turks and #Bulgars#Byzanzforschung, #IMAFO, #ÖAWhttps://t.co/gSvmtvoQjB pic.twitter.com/eZVTZ613A0
— J. Preiser-Kapeller (@Byzanzforscher) June 15, 2020
Don't Start Where Communities Don't Exist
Most people can't relate to the common good or imagine it, because they don't live in a community.
The Public Discourse: Where (Not) to Begin with the Common Good by Mark Hoipkemier
The Public Discourse: Where (Not) to Begin with the Common Good by Mark Hoipkemier
The question “Who are we to become?” is always answered together. In a world where this fact were understood, we would use the grammar of the common good in the course of deliberations about how to act justly. Needless to say, that is not our world. https://t.co/ziSxBwWZcj
— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) June 16, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Can. 747 §2
A summary of ‘Abp.’ Carlo Maria Viganò’s powerful indictment of Vatican II and the strange new church it created. More here: https://t.co/PFTyJxHucw #vigano #CatholicTwitter #CatholicChurch #fssp #sspx #fsspx #fatima #popefrancis pic.twitter.com/F1gT4I9B0c
— Novus Ordo Watch (@NovusOrdoWatch) June 15, 2020
LSN: Abp Viganò on the ‘roots of deviation’ of Vatican II and how Francis was chosen to revolutionize the Church
In a historic text, Archbishop Viganò agrees with Bishop Athanasius Schneider in his criticism of the Second Vatican Council.
In his new statement, Archbishop Vigano clearly distances himself from the controversial Abu Dhabi statement. He says: “we know well that the purpose of these ecumenical and interreligious initiatives is not to convert those who are far from the one Church to Christ, but to divert and corrupt those who still hold the Catholic Faith, leading them to believe that it is desirable to have a great universal religion that brings together the three great Abrahamic religions ‘in a single house’: this is the triumph of the Masonic plan in preparation for the kingdom of the Antichrist!”
Now it is possible that the pope may not be promoting some sort of indifferentist humanism but rather, this is just a logical consequence of Can. 747 §2 and the desire to foster good "interfaith relations" in the name of Christ as a part of exercising that "duty" under Can. 747 §2. Would the archbishop be critical of the canon and the Latin ecclesiology that supports it?
From the letter:
Some may remember that the first ecumenical gatherings were held with the schismatics of the East, and very prudently with other Protestant sects. Apart from Germany, Holland, and Switzerland, in the beginning the countries of Catholic tradition did not welcome mixed celebrations with Protestant pastors and Catholic priests together. I recall that at the time there was talk of removing the penultimate doxology from the Veni Creator so as not to offend the Orthodox, who do not accept the Filioque.
Here he speaks more like a Latin traditionalist, though I've never read anything that would confirm him as such (an overt preference of the EF to the OF), and he may lose the sympathy of non-Latin Catholics who would read this. Maybe he and non-Latins could come to an agreement on ecclesiology that would allow for a critique of the council though I don't see anything to show that he does not consider Vatican II to be a valid ecumenical council.
John Paul II and Vatican II
CWR: A Saintly View of Vatican II by Douglas Bushman
For St. John Paul II, Vatican II is a concrete, historical realization of Christ’s promise to be with His Church through the work of the Holy Spirit. For this reason, it makes a claim on his faith.
It's another essay by a Latin about a Latin council, which may exaggerate certain Latin pious beliefs about the relationship between the Holy Spirit and a supposedly valid ecumenical council (but really a synod of the Patriarchate of Rome).
Just as the pope may have been canonized in part for "ecclesial" reasons, to promote the credibility of Vatican II, so his judgments concerning the council are perceived to have more weight because he has been canonized.
For St. John Paul II, Vatican II is a concrete, historical realization of Christ’s promise to be with His Church through the work of the Holy Spirit. For this reason, it makes a claim on his faith.
It's another essay by a Latin about a Latin council, which may exaggerate certain Latin pious beliefs about the relationship between the Holy Spirit and a supposedly valid ecumenical council (but really a synod of the Patriarchate of Rome).
To view the Council in faith, with St. John Paul II, is to see that at Vatican II the apostolic Church experienced anew the fulfillment of Christ’s promise to send the Holy Spirit, Who “will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (Jn 14:26). For this reason, “Obedience to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council is obedience to the Holy Spirit…. Obedience to the Holy Spirit is expressed in the authentic carrying out of the tasks indicated by the Council, in full accordance with the teaching set forth therein” (Address to the College of Cardinals, November 9, 1979).One cannot make historical judgments about a council without the exercise of faith, and Latin critics of the council, such as Latin traditionalists, have their own starting points which are held in faith.
Just as the pope may have been canonized in part for "ecclesial" reasons, to promote the credibility of Vatican II, so his judgments concerning the council are perceived to have more weight because he has been canonized.
In the Pope's Backyard
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Christian Platonism: A History
CHRISTIAN PLATONISM: A HISTORY
— Alexander JB Hampton 🦉 (@ajbhampton) June 13, 2020
Publication Fall 2020 @CambridgeUP
How one of history’s most influential philosophies shaped one of its most important religions.
Contents https://t.co/eXy0PefcuX @CambUP_Religion @UofTReligion @AP_Davison @pickstockc @Shermanicus @DrkMichaud pic.twitter.com/VBBAM8X7y7
Cambridge University Press
Related:
Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
The Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook
Platonic Cabbalism in Cambridge Platonism
Friday, June 12, 2020
Libertas scholastica
Libertas scholastica is for the most part today a dead letter. What we have instead is “academic freedom.” Early 20th century scholars tried to connect the two in a grand genealogy from the libertas scholastica of the medieval universities, to...https://t.co/VfcqSy7098
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 11, 2020
CLJ
Logic as a Liberal Art: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Reasoning by R. E. Houser.
CUA Press
A recview:
A recview:
"Houser, whose text primarily relies on the deductive reasoning of Aristotelian logic—with a healthy dose of grammar and rhetoric at the beginning—helps us identify the prevalence of illogic in public discourse." @CUAPress https://t.co/QfGeKv66Bu
— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) June 12, 2020
Edward Baring, Converts to the Real
HUP
Related:
What Is Continental Philosophy? An Interview with Edward Baring
Phenomenology’s Influence in the West by Graham McAleer
Two important articles on Catholicism and phenomenology in light of Edward Baring's book "Converts to the Real."
— Genealogies of Modernity (@GenofMod) June 12, 2020
@HumbGonzGonzalez in @GenofMod and Michael Gubser in @ChurchLifeND
Read them both. #Philosophy https://t.co/932U9Hs8Wxhttps://t.co/uL0NC4uAi9
Related:
What Is Continental Philosophy? An Interview with Edward Baring
Phenomenology’s Influence in the West by Graham McAleer
A Vaticanista Book
.#COMINGSOON "The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates" by @EdwardPentin
— SophiaInsPress (@SophiaInsPress) June 3, 2020
Details: https://t.co/pw3u0sZnbQ#papacy #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #Cardinals pic.twitter.com/JzYWHAMucy
Sophia Institute Press
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