Ecclesia et Civitas
Month: June 2015
General
The way forward: Accommodation or proclamation?
The first and arguably most important thing to say about the Pew Research Center’s new overview of American religion is that it offers no grounds for either complacency or panic. What it does instead is […]
Interview
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter: Traditional Liturgy, Booming Vocations
Father Gregory Pendergraft, FSSP is director of development for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and the assistant director of vocations. His work consists of raising the necessary funds to operate the Fraternity’s Our Lady […]
General
Themes for surviving “Ordinary Time”
I’m fortunate to hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching these days leans far more toward moral exhortation than biblical exposition. This strikes me as a missed opportunity. For […]
General
Bruce Jenner, the “Shadow Council,” and St. Irenaeus
Two news items from last week put me in mind of St. Irenaeus and the battle he waged, nineteen centuries ago, against the Gnostic heresy. The first was the emergence of Bruce Jenner as a […]
Essay
German Idealism and Cardinal Kasper’s Theological Project
This lecture was given on November 4, 2014 in Vienna at an event organized by Una Voce Austria. It has been translated from the original German. The Church is a stumbling block. This has always […]
Essay
Gnosticism vs. The Incarnation: The Ancient Battle Renewed
There is a tale, whose threads are too long to unravel here, of the meanderings of an idea through history—the idea that, as Nicolas Gómez-Davila parsed it, man is “a god imprisoned in the dull […]
General
Message from Cardinal Sarah to participants of “Sacra Liturgia 2015” event in NYC
The following Message from Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, was sent to participants of the “Sacra Liturgia 2015” event in New York City, held this […]
Interview
Pope discusses Medjugorje, coming encyclical on flight from Bosnia
Vatican City, Jun 6, 2015 / 03:42 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On his return flight from Sarajevo to Rome Pope Francis told journalists a final decision on the highly debated Mejugorje apparitions could be close, and […]
General
Flannery O’Connor and the Habit of Incarnational Art
The U.S. Post Office has just released a new stamp featuring Flannery O’Connor: