Ceuta Reveals the Naked Truth About Europe’s Migration Crisis (European Conservative): “Europe may choose an extensive welfare state. It may choose extremely open immigration. But it cannot indefinitely maintain both without producing fiscal strain, political conflict, and declining public trust.”
What might be Pope Leo’s goal for China? (The Pillar): “The Vatican has announced two Chinese episcopal appointments in recent weeks, signaling the continuing operation of its eight-year-old agreement with China’s government on the appointment of bishops.”
The American Proposition, Religious Liberty, and the Catholic Imagination (The Homiletic & Pastoral Review): “Few subjects have generated more misunderstanding among Catholics than religious liberty. For some, it is viewed as a purely American political concept imported into Catholic thought.”
Leo XIV: Toward a necessary restructuring (Monday Vatican): “Leo XIV has returned to the Vatican after a month-long vacation in Castel Gandolfo, and a series of important decisions await him. “
The Wandering Bishops (First Things): “The truth is that, having carried out consecrations that excommunicated all six of its bishops, the SSPX has moved closer to the ecosystem of episcopi vagantes or ‘wandering bishops.’”
Hidden for Centuries: How Newly Identified St. Augustine Sermons Were Found (OSV News): “Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine have been identified in a 12th-century manuscript preserved in Poland, giving scholars a rare new window into the mind of one of Christianity’s greatest theologians more than 1,600 years after he preached them.”
Can Rome and the East heal the Great Schism? (The Catholic Herald): “Twentieth-century Orthodox theologian Fr Alexander Schmemann used to say that a requirement for reconciliation with Catholics was a pan-Orthodox synod.”
God Redeems Nations and Persons (Providence): “For years, it was a cliché to remark that President Donald Trump was an isolationist who ‘hates war.’ For Christians, this would seem to be an unambiguously positive description of the president’s motives.”
How Harsh Should Your Penance Be? (Catholic Answers): “St. John Vianney engaged in extreme mortifications to atone for his sins. Should we, too?”
The ways God calls us (Vision Vocation Guide): “God speaks to us directly in our hearts, minds, and souls through our thoughts and feelings, and through our inner movements and desires. However, not all of our inner thoughts, movements, and desires come from God.”
Mamdani’s grocery giveaway hits ID snag as critics cry foul: ‘Make it make sense’ (Fox News): “Critics compare the proposed customer card for discounted groceries to voter ID laws the mayor opposes”
INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Timeless Virtues of The Odyssey (The Epoch Times): “The epic poem [The Odyssey] composed by the legendary poet Homer some 3,000 years ago describes Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War. Here’s what can be learned from the heroic Greek warrior and king.”
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Don’t bother with The Epoch Times; they have a paywall.
I wonder if the chart of the virtues with short precis was the article…
Could you access the chart?
See if this works.
https://infogram.com/33e624db-1702-4da1-bc2e-b399c1dfd9a8
Or press the grey button in here.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/infogram
Elias: Thank you.
You’re welcome. Thanks to meiron seconding a prompt.
@ What might be Pope Leo’s goal for China?
Despite nuances of improved Vatican engagement in the appointment of bishops – which addressed alone appears positive – the main injury to the practice of Catholicism in China is the Vatican tolerance of the Sinisization of Christ’s message to the world, the Gospels.
Texts are said to have been rewritten completely changing the moral message. This alone is intolerable and should not be allowed. Cardinal Zen’s position is the correct decision, to return to the true practice of the faith by the underground Church. The former is consistent with the trend of accommodation with the world rather than a witness contrary to secularist ideals and social mores.
First Things on SSPX and episcopi vagantes: BORING article. The whole point is that excommunicated bishops like those of SSPX, or any priest or bishop who leaves autocephalous Rome, ends in an odd odyssey, lost at sea so to say.
The author perhaps fails to see the ironic consequence of joining or presiding in a Church—bereft of Christ—whose leaders are corrupt, duplicitous, and otherwise heart-wrenchingly sinful. A Vatican of that nature would “…attract psychologically damaged men under whose autocephalous rule devotees are bullied or sexually abused.” Men without belief in Christ, a Church which continually tries to decapitate Christ, is a church with autocephalous rule.
#1 Ceuta Reveals the Naked Truth About Europe’s Migration Crisis (European Conservative) –
As articulate and measured a reading of the issue as one could hope for.
@ Leo XIV: Toward a necessary restructuring
Andrea Gagliarducci, among the most informed Vaticanisti, spells out Leo XIV’s required restructuring – “starting with those in the Vatican who championed Pope Francis’s decisions and refuse to backtrack”.
Indeed, Leo, an avowed Francis admirer can only accomplish this by disavowal. Will it be as already suggested in appointments, an equal opportunity representation of conservatives and progressives – the edge given to progressives? Or will he address two important contested Church subjects, homosexuality and the Traditional Latin Mass? Then there’s Rupnik.
Leo XIV is described as very deliberative. Although prolonged, non ending deliberation is as good as affirmation of the status quo. While Pope Francis’ emphasis on a more merciful, less rigid softening approach does have value, in the end Apostolic doctrine must be held fast.
Sin must be defined in reference to specific acts. Sinners must seek reconciliation and confess their sins to a priest. Persons, who are clerical members of the Church, cannot be permitted to teach or suggest otherwise. To date we haven’t received clarity from Leo XIV on these pressing issues. Will the Church continue on a growing accommodation with a secular world, or will it be the light of salvation in a world of darkness?
CHANGE SUBJECT
This afternoon – it being unpleasantly hot outside – I had decided to have a cold drink and watch a movie. While looking through my collection I stumbled upon one that I have not watched for at least 3 or 4 years, and I am here to recommend it to one and all. It is called ‘Saving Grace’ and it stars Tom Conti as Pope Leo XIV (the film was made about 30 years ago). There is another film by the same title I believe, but THIS is the one you want to see.
I’m not going to tell you what it is about, but I CAN tell you that 1) it is worth trying to find (it is hard to find) and that 2) when it was released (mid- 90s?) the NY Times poo-poohed it as only they can, and to me that alone makes it worth the search.
You can thank me later.
The theme is a young Pope Leo XIV [Saving Grace released 1986] who accidentally gets locked out of the Vatican in street clothes, and comes to believe it’s divine providence.
You can rent or purchase it from Amazon. I suspect there may be some who will find interest in the theme.