Aristotle Wannabe

Understanding Tucho in his own words. "To me, it sounds a bit vain to believe that one has everything clear on these issues. In them, the exciting mystery of human lives is in play, where not everything is mathematics."https://t.co/9fT22cwXjc

— Alexander Lucie-Smith (@ALucieSmith) July 8, 2023

The Circus Continues

Cardinal Müller Confirms Vatican Doctrinal Office Had File Warning About Archbishop Fernández | National Catholic Register https://t.co/FHs5WFOe5G @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 6, 2023

Chaos

What does Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández stand for? Intellectual and pastoral chaos. Me for @firstthingsmag: https://t.co/k3NDHd2RvE

— Dan Hitchens (@ddhitchens) July 6, 2023

Anaxios

The professor of moral and spiritual theology who was rejected by the Vatican for the role of dean at a seminary in Italy publicly denounced the decision on Monday.https://t.co/20Ams5NdFY

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 3, 2023

From One Anaxios to...

FULL TEXT: Pope Francis’ Letter to New Doctrine Chief Archbishop Fernández | National Catholic Register https://t.co/PSVLAkEU2E

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 2, 2023

Anaxios

Here below is a translation of #PopeFrancis' letter today to the newly appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández. All quotations have been taken from the original documents. https://t.co/JOIdlz62NV pic.twitter.com/iKyhjgiWdL

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) July 1, 2023

The Argentine theologian Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández is the new prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.https://t.co/fqTfKpoSQJ

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) July 1, 2023

Pope Francis named Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez as Prefect of the Vatican's Discastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, saying he expects Fernandez to reject using "immoral methods" in defense of Catholic teaching.https://t.co/tJxrCMdeXI

— Crux (@Crux) July 1, 2023

I've highlighted some interesting points the Pope makes, in his letter to his new Chief Theologian.

It should be noted that this appointment will cause quite a stir in the Church, due to Archbishop Fernandez's writings, including his role drafting Amoris Laetitia. pic.twitter.com/ljylqLQ5n4

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) July 1, 2023

Pope to new head of Vatican Doctrinal office: “The dicastery that you will preside over in other epochs came to use immoral methods..promoting theological knowledge they chased after possible doctrinal errors..I expect from you something..different” https://t.co/9GiMU6NXgZ

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) July 1, 2023

The Word of God

Interestingly, the ancient Aramaic targumim distinguishes between God qua God and God’s “Word”, who always existed with Him (similar to the Book of Solomon speaking of God’s eternal “Wisdom”).

The high Christology of the early Church is rooted deeply in ancient Jewish monotheism pic.twitter.com/92Wc4EeuH3

— ًًً (@esotericism__) June 30, 2023

The Divided Pope

The Divided Pope: A Review https://t.co/SJWO97mwmM pic.twitter.com/RT8gZqfo0F

— NLM (@NLMblog) June 30, 2023

A Latin Would Claim This

"Celibacy is a gift that the Latin Church preserved. Yet it is a gift that to be lived as a means of sanctification calls for healthy relationships - relationships of true esteem and true goodness that are deeply rooted in Christ." —Archbishop Timothy Broglio pic.twitter.com/BTYlEEoZpb

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) June 30, 2023

Reminder

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— Fr. Andrew Younan (@younan3000) May 31, 2023

Latin Theology of Confirmation

Friends, at last week's Confirmation Mass, a number of candidates chose St. Sebastian as their Confirmation saint. Just as he was branded as a soldier for the Roman army, we are branded through the sacrament of Confirmation for God and the glory of his kingdom. pic.twitter.com/IwMuQ85JxU

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) May 22, 2023

Glory to God

death of a single cell pic.twitter.com/lwCJink5d9

— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) May 13, 2023

Which Nature?

“By receiving the Holy Spirit, who is the bond of union between us and Christ our Savior, those who are joined to him, as branches are to a vine, share in his own nature.” -St. Cyril of Alexandria

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) May 10, 2023

Sacred Arts East and West

Last week, the Institute of Sacred Arts at SVOTS hosted a special roundtable discussion, Sacred Arts East and West: A Conversation with Aidan Hart, Jonathan Pageau, and Andrew Gould. Read more about their discussion and watch the recording here: https://t.co/VDN9yS45JG pic.twitter.com/oocO7aWprh

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (@stvlads) May 3, 2023

Memory Eternal

Our Tribute to the late Professor Luke Gormally (1950-2023), who contributed profoundly to bioethics as our Director, Governor, and much else besides, and who died on Sunday aged 73: https://t.co/kkEnpBO1Gr

May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/oWWgzR0hB4

— Anscombe Bioethics Centre (@AnscombeCentre) May 2, 2023

Life Comes at You Fast...

My review of the doctrinal status of Limbo and related matters is no longer available on Catholic Answers, but here's a link to the archived article.https://t.co/Hs2CsDitSC

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) April 29, 2023

Abomination

The Vatican announced Wednesday that there will be laypeople participating as voting members in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly, a break with past custom, which allowed laypeople to participate without the right to vote. https://t.co/10fcH6FymC

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 26, 2023

On Wednesday the Vatican’s office for the Synod of Bishops announced a series of modifications to the rules governing membership in synod gatherings, for the first time allowing women to be appointed as full members with voting rights.https://t.co/oqikCvBZbP

— Crux (@Crux) April 27, 2023

JUST IN: 10 consecrated clerics to be replaced by 5 women & 5 men religious at Oct Synod in Rome. Auditors to be replaced by 70 non-bishop members chosen by #PopeFrancis. All to be given right to vote, but @Synod_va insists it does not change the episcopal nature of the assembly. pic.twitter.com/I8AKE1XiFF

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) April 26, 2023

A Critic of the Fake Synod

The Synod on Synodality assumes that fidelity to the Church’s teaching needs to be re-imagined and re-worked so that various people will not feel that they are being excluded and rejected. | @GeraldMurray8https://t.co/1EpqhXNJDW

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 20, 2023

Still Fighting the Battles of Yesterday

This is an important occasion to recall that adoration & processions went from being a fixture of Catholic life to virtually *nonexistent* in just a few short years by the 70's.

Radical new sacramental theologies were at work. Fr Richard McBrien once infamously articulated it: https://t.co/iUe4bswWVX pic.twitter.com/BEgcMtpY6Y

— JuventutemDC (@juventutemDC) April 15, 2023

When Worlds Collide

Repulsive comment from a priest—at odds with Magisterium.

“They have … subjected some of the inhabitants of said islands to perpetual slavery [subdiderunt perpetuae servituti]. Therefore We ... exhort … that they desist from the aforementioned deeds.”

— Pope Eugene IV, 1435 https://t.co/Tjg0N8juE7

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 16, 2023

this reply gets to the necessary distinctions...

because mere quantity does nothing to change the nature of the act.

This is slavery considered in its essence, and this response is, indeed, boilerplate moral theory one can find in any number of manuals.

What people have in mind, though, is not slavery strictly considered, +

— Georgius Alexandri f. Mancz (@g_mancz) April 16, 2023