How an Ecclesia Empire Dies

The Vatican Synod in October wants you to come ready to confess your sins against the items below:

Certainly confusing when you consider the following—

When you let in “m*grants”, guess what follows?

Lack of peace.
Abuse, and
Sins against women, family and youth!! https://t.co/3Aei3cxzrq pic.twitter.com/YfQ81HlhdK

— JamestheCatholic (@TheNigerianTrad) September 16, 2024

Priorities?

Ave Maria!

Just out!

Our book collecting all proceedings from our first Marian Conference, Dundee 2023. This book inaugurates our new publisher: ‘Mary House Press’ run by the Marian Franciscans in the UK.

Available on https://t.co/yaX6s91MS0 and on https://t.co/G9UBWoGanZ. pic.twitter.com/QyaWoAjGQH

— The Marian Franciscans (@marianfriars) September 14, 2024

"Universal Jurisdiction"

🚨🚨🚨Pope in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours…

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) September 13, 2024

“There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God]," Pope Francis said.https://t.co/Hl9VU01GPH

— Crux (@Crux) September 13, 2024

Enabling Abuse and Exploitation

Scandal-plagued Peruvian group grows aggressive as Vatican investigates.https://t.co/FuQ7zZHBHH

— Crux (@Crux) September 7, 2024

Art-Deco Religious Art?

Maybe not quite but almost? similar vibe as much of the DC Basilica.

📣 As part of our pre-conference schedule, join Michael Raia (President, Studio io) for a sacred architecture tour of the new Church of St Mary in College Station, TX. Sign up for the tour is available as part of the registraton for the conference here: https://t.co/9G6K7Y0D2u pic.twitter.com/ISLLhDfFqU

— Society for Catholic Liturgy (@LiturgySociety) September 5, 2024

Theology of Education

With what competence, experience, or wisdom to gather doxa and present them as tenets?

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, highlighted the tenets of Catholic education and the modern challenges facing educators in a pastoral letter on Tuesday. https://t.co/7DsYzVFEsq

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) September 3, 2024

Two New Syro-Malabar Bishops

The Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic rite in full communion with Rome, appointed two new bishops for Changanacherry and Shamshabad in India on Friday. https://t.co/xk9GoVTLI1

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) August 30, 2024

What's Going on with the Chaldeans

The Chaldean Catholic patriarch has called for penalties - even excommunication - against five bishops. Here's why:https://t.co/5BQaLXjNw9

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) August 30, 2024

Transubstantiation Still

For while creation might be ascribed to a deity who acts at a distance, the Eucharist shows forth a divine power that is transcendent precisely in being present to us as our pilgrim food.@BauerschmidtC via @WordOnFire Academichttps://t.co/yCLQDbL9qS

— Artur Sebastian Rosman (@cosmostheinlost) August 29, 2024

Book on Fr. Fessio

Coming soon @IgnatiusPress: "Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe" by Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J.

“A delightful and intimate account of a very human and holy life.”—Peter Kreeft, Professor, Boston Collegehttps://t.co/QKvuChoLZR pic.twitter.com/CXiDs6oa3F

— Ignatius Insight (@ignatiusinsight) August 27, 2024

Josh Brown

My colleague Josh Brown has a fascinating forthcoming book about Aquinas and Chinese philosophy.

Good time for the rerelease of this podcast discussion with Dr. Brown about four books of Confucianism, in the "Great Eight" series with Mount professors --https://t.co/4jdZM2YcVp pic.twitter.com/nV8HbS3XbQ

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) August 28, 2024

The Leave-taking of the Dormition

The Leaving-taking of the Dormition in the Byzantine Rite https://t.co/LUWIFN0VNf pic.twitter.com/AiDUv6cjrx

— NLM (@NLMblog) August 23, 2024

The Queenship of Mary?

“To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.” - Saint John Vianney

Happy feast of the Queenship of Mary!#Catholic #Catholicism #CatholicChurch #FeastDay #Scripture #Tradition #PrayForUs #HolyMenAndWomen pic.twitter.com/F8yHIQ5SwY

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) August 22, 2024

Gelasian Dyarchy Still a Thing for Some

New audiobook: Pope Gelasius' famous letter Famuli Vestrae Pietatis, which laid out the Church's doctrine of two complementary powers, spiritual and temporal - the spiritual having the primacy.

Thanks to @josias_rex for letting us use their translation!https://t.co/BkFyIMSwoG pic.twitter.com/MieRkg6D6L

— Thomas Mirus (@CatholicPods) August 22, 2024

A Short History of the Roman Mass

In his book, “A Short History of the Roman Mass,” Fr Michael Lang, a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and professor of theology, offers a detailed and accessible overview of the historical development of the Mass from its origins to present day. https://t.co/cJefhaHHfk

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) August 19, 2024

Poinsot in Reprint

A great masterwork in theology and a vital contribution to Thomistic thinking, now available in an affordable reprint (Latin edition): https://t.co/ERpeAxQKU0

— Lyceum Institute (@LyceumInstitute) July 14, 2024

Latin Privileging of the Vulgate

An unpopular theological opinion:

I don’t think we gained by translating the Scriptures into modern languages directly from the original languages without reference to the Vulgate.
A tradition of translation/interpretation can only help ongoing efforts to translate/interpret.

— Amigo de Frodo (@bpdflores) August 10, 2024

Vatican Centralized Authority

This week the Vatican’s Academy for Life issued a new text on various bioethical issues, including treatment for patients in a vegetative state, which marks a modest departure from the Vatican’s previously held position on the issue.https://t.co/35ANT6tmSd

— Crux (@Crux) August 10, 2024

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"With all the problems in the world, young people are seeking grounding and they don’t see religion as problematic anymore, it’s interesting again."https://t.co/PcvN6ZWqjk

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) August 7, 2024

Continental Philosophy, What Future?

The relevance of Catholic thought for Continental philosophy, still underestimated. Think about Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Gilson, Wojtyla, or recently Jean-Luc Marion. https://t.co/OwcjDMEy8l

— Ferenc Hörcher (@HorcherF) August 7, 2024