A New FSSP Album

Good news: Tomorrow, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) are releasing a brand-new album by the seminarians of Saint Peter Wigratzbad (@Wigratzbad ) with 10x Grammy Award-winning producer Christopher Alder - it's Christmas Matins from Bavaria.https://t.co/4KsL6gq4sM

— JuventutemDC (@juventutemDC) September 27, 2021

Icons in the Church of the East

Vatican II's Old Guard

Pope Francis to Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe: “To make the Church beautiful and welcoming we need together to look to the future, not to restore the past, which unfortunately is a fad. Restoring the past will kill us, it will kill everyone” pic.twitter.com/9xenYUo1R1

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) September 23, 2021

Kasper Still Playing His Part?

Cardinal Kasper on German Synod: ‘Many Wonder Whether All This is Still Entirely Catholic’ | National Catholic Register @NCRegister https://t.co/o0ozDgJMrI

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 23, 2021

CUA to Get a New President

President John Garvey, 72, who led CatholicU through an extensive period of campus transformation that lifted up nearly every aspect of the University, will step down from his leadership role on June 30, 2022

Read his letter to the community here: https://t.co/GRejjwRg9R pic.twitter.com/zCovV3ww86

— The Catholic University of America (@CatholicUniv) September 22, 2021

Big news in the DC-area and national Catholic higher ed scene: John Garvey will step down after 12 years as leader of Catholic University https://t.co/OSWpDRv3cb

— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) September 22, 2021

God-Breathed Psalms?

One intervention at Vatican II argued that the psalms *Iudica me* at the foot and *Lavabo* during the offertory had “lost their meaning” and so should be suppressed. Might I suggest that, if the God-breathed psalms have “lost their meaning,” we might want to try to find it?

— Urban Hannon (@hannonregular) September 22, 2021

Inspired?

And What of Clericalism in the Heart of Rome?

Online meeting of the Council of cardinals. Speaking about the Synod, the Pope made it clear that at the heart of the reflection is not so much the deepening of this or that issue as learning a way of living the Church, particularly in the face of clericalism and rigidity. pic.twitter.com/MeH9PiQ5an

— Ines San Martin (@inesanma) September 22, 2021

Lawler on Pope Francis's Complaint

A politician might fret over unfriendly editorials; the Vicar of Christ should not.https://t.co/KzjafsVMUi

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) September 22, 2021

Brief by Finnis and George in the Dobbs Case

By "persons," did those who enacted the 14th Amendment mean human beings at all stages of development and in all conditions, including children in utero? In a Brief in the Dobbs case, Prof. John Finnis and I say yes. Prof. Aaron Tang says no. Our response:https://t.co/5IvjSFllWJ

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) September 21, 2021

Remember the article last week purporting to cast doubt on the "27 states" that prohibited abortion in 1868? Profs. John Finnis and @McCormickProf have penned a withering preliminary reply to Prof. @AaronTangLaw: https://t.co/Ymc0dgZhyw

— Josh Craddock (@joshjcraddock) September 21, 2021

Timothy P. O'Malley on the Saints in the Roman Canon

Today the community had our monthly retreat, but as I just did my annual retreat, I had to find a spiritual talk. I found this great talk by @timothypomalley on the saints in the Roman Canon (AKA Eucharistic Prayer I) & it's worth listening to. @McGrathND https://t.co/UXsjEEXRW5

— Fr Matthew P. Schneider LC ❤️‍🔥 (@FrMatthewLC) September 20, 2021

Dr. Michel Accad on Health

Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy and the Form of Health - Dr. Michel Accad challenges the mechanistic and reductionistic, ultimately Cartesian, views of the human body present in medicine today. https://t.co/EU6yP9qTCR

— Lyceum Institute (@LyceumInstitute) September 20, 2021

The Green Pass Comes to the Vatican

VATICAN--The Vatican has just issued a decree that starting 1 Oct 2021, all visitors must have COVID Green Pass.

I have requested clarification from @HolySeePress to if this includes visiting St. Peter's Basilica, etc.

My working English translation: pic.twitter.com/REVpsUp9dA

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) September 20, 2021

The Vatican has issued a very careful and deliberate set of regulations on vaccines and immunity for the city state. Meanwhile, in Canada... https://t.co/7v5SowPlBt

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) September 20, 2021

A Green Pass will be required to access the Vatican from Oct. 1 except for liturgical celebrations.

There have been zero deaths from #Covid at the Vatican since the pandemic began and the last reported Covid case on Vatican soil was nearly a year ago. https://t.co/Fjh4dDoHhA

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 20, 2021

"Baffling"

Another Baffling Papal Press Conference by George Neumayr @george_neumayrhttps://t.co/pxCNfbgyWR

— The American Spectator (@amspectator) September 19, 2021

Both Are Figures of Christ?

King David holding an open Psalter, flanked by Sophia (Wisdom) on the left, and Prophecy on the right
From the Paris Psalter (c. 950)
Constantinople, now at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris pic.twitter.com/MTBjFsfGy7

— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) September 18, 2021

Babylon Bee Interview of Jonathan Pageau

My interview with the Babylon Bee. I think I broke their brains. https://t.co/AXPfWrQ9oR

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) September 15, 2021

Will There Be Irish Catholics to Benefit?

Joyed to share my interview with the Irish Catholic on the grant for Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology! @StPatsMaynooth @ArchbishopEamon @kingholeung@ChurchLifeND @NTOntologies @GenofMod @keenfriar @MichaelKellyIC @johnmilbank3 @cosmostheinlost https://t.co/NlMf3n4TVH

— philip gonzales (@philipgonzales8) September 16, 2021

Trapped in Latin Ecclesiology

Lessons from a Failed Council and a Failed Reform https://t.co/lhUZFzUhad pic.twitter.com/MiK8SMpdNA

— NLM (@NLMblog) September 15, 2021

Tonight

Axios!

Welcome to our New Rector Magnificus, fr. Thomas J. White, O.P. Today he made the Profession of Faith and took the Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium in the presence of the Angelicum's Dominican community and Master Gerard Timoner, O.P. The whole Angelicum family welcomes you! pic.twitter.com/A8YjReZJDH

— Angelicum (@_Angelicum) September 14, 2021

Debating "Ensoulment"

Asked about President Biden and abortion last week, @WashArchbishop Cardinal Gregory said that theologians are debating when conception occurs.
So we asked the National Catholic Bioethics Center to explain it to us. https://t.co/He7d2s92LL

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) September 13, 2021