The Vatican’s Deal with the CCP is Not Working—But Washington Can Help (Providence): “In 2018, the Holy See made a deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in an effort to ‘contribute positively to the life of the Catholic Church in China, to the common good of the Chinese people and to peace in the world.’”
How to Avoid Another Blowup at Notre Dame (The Irish Rover): “Each blowup leaves wounds—people angry, friendships frayed, colleagues factionalized, alumni disillusioned, the university disunited and the Dome’s moral authority compromised. Can the blowups be avoided?”
Pope Leo: Between Gospel Witness and Humanitarian Illusions (City Journal): “The pontiff is right to warn against hatred and rash recourse to war—but his tendency toward a kind of functional pacifism marks a departure from older Christian wisdom.”
When a Good Argument Fails (Catholic Answers): “It’s not enough simply to win the debate. You have to make them notice that you did.”
Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation (What We Need Now): Catholic schools and universities speak frequently, and rightly, about the formation of the whole person…. What they often speak about less confidently is citizenship.”
The Left Is Lying to Itself About the Cost of Its Rhetoric (National Review): “What we do know, however, is that the shooter was a progressive who hung out at Bluesky, and he seems to have been radicalized into committing violence by the panic and apocalypticism common in such spaces.”
Ratzinger in the Whirlwind (First Things): “Joseph Ratzinger did not fade into obscurity when he retired to a life of prayer inside the Vatican walls in 2013. On the contrary, his work remains as influential as ever.”
Swiss Catholics out of doghouse over Eucharistic desecration (The Pillar): “A Swiss diocese has announced that three people who shared the Eucharist with their dogs have not been excommunicated because they ‘did not act with sacrilegious intent.’”
Why Silicon Valley Is Turning to the Catholic Church (The Atlantic): “Priests and theologians want to shape the future of AI. Big Tech is listening.”
Spiritual Benefits of Journaling (SpiritualDirection.com): When we do have those times of sitting with [God], we want to remember what he says, how we feel, and what strikes us the most. The best way to do all of those is to keep a prayer journal.
Fernando Mendoza’s Catholic Playbook: Pro Tips From Las Vegas Faithful for the Raiders’ New QB (National Catholic Register): “The NFL’s No. 1 draft pick, who has been outspoken about his Catholic faith, can expect a warm welcome to one of the fastest-growing dioceses in the U.S.”
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The Pope is NOT the Head of the Catholic Church. Christ is. Let’s always keep that in mind.
Christ called 12 Apostles. Not just one. Let’s always keep that in mind.
The woman called “archbishop” of Canterbury is not a validly ordained minister as far as Christ’s Church is concerned. To pretend that she is so is giving witness to a lie. To give witness to a lie is a sinful matter.
@ Ratzinger in the Whirlwind
He found neo-Thomism dry, constraining, and insufficiently grounded in Scripture and the Fathers (Essayist Sam Zeno Conedera First Things).
Misunderstanding of Aquinas as a closed system is rampant. Neo Scholastics including Garrigou-La Grange were responsible for this perception ending with notable American philosopher ethicist Germain Grisez, who [claimed to have] developed an absolute diagram covering the entirety of morality based on deducting reasoning from universal principles. Whereas Aquinas teaches the opposite. That moral good is first perceived in the particular or singular, the act itself. Universals are formed by the intuitive apprehension of good acts.
Aquinas provides irrefutable principles for the development of thought, rather than a closed system. Platonic thinkers such as Bonaventure, a Ratzinger favorite, possessed a sense of freedom to explore beyond what is immediately perceived. A perfect methodology would be a synthesis of both, which Ratzinger did by acknowledging Aquinas’ basics as a guide.
Benedict XVI’s resignation (can have had the result that it) cut off the development of understanding at different stages of given issues. He said he was tired.
Take “Anglican communion”. This conjunction is not in the Council Documents. The Council refers to Protestants with other words, linked, honour, norm of belief, zeal, loving belief, ecclesial community, open to the Spirit, exhort.
If Protestants are baptized properly it can be said they are initiates maybe even qualifiable catechumens. And surely the authentic baptism would have to be shown; for it could be that in some if not many of those communities, formulas became abused.
Consider also that one has to evangelize with a priority toward to those who will receive not priority toward “ecclesial institutionality” as an absolute imperative.