My posting might be a bit sparse during Lent. A blessed Clean Monday to my Eastern Christian readers, and a blessed Ash Wednesday to my Western Christian readers.
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Archive for February, 2007
Great Lent is here
Posted in Miscellaneous on February 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Klaus Schatz on the “cathedra unitatis”
Posted in Ecclesiology, Papacy on February 16, 2007 | 22 Comments »
The Pontificator has posted an interesting excerpt from Papal Primacy by Klaus Schatz, SJ.
“[T]he Church learns through the experience of schisms that it needs an enduring center of unity. But because the Church cannot ‘create’ its essential elements, but lives its life as a Church founded by Jesus and endowed with certain gifts and traditions, [...]
Cardinal Kasper on the First Vatican Council (2)
Posted in Ecclesiology, Papacy, Vatican I on February 9, 2007 | 20 Comments »
2. The second principle of dogmatic hermeneutics concerns the rereading of the First Vatican Council in light of the whole tradition and the integration of that Council within this tradition as a whole. The texts of the First Vatican Council itself already pointed out this route. The introduction to the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor aeternus described [...]
Cardinal Kasper on the First Vatican Council (1)
Posted in Ecclesiology, Papacy, Vatican I on February 6, 2007 | 57 Comments »
The Catholic Church is dogmatically bound to the First and Second Vatican Councils, which she cannot give up; also the Orthodox Churches are de facto bound by their critique of, and opposition to, these dogmas. Rereading and re-reception are not an escamotage [slight of hand]. It means to interpret the teaching of the First Vatican [...]
Eastern Catholic blogs?
Posted in Miscellaneous on February 6, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Is anybody aware of any good Eastern Catholic blogs? They seem to be few and far in between.
A quick reminder
Posted in Miscellaneous on February 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you leave comments on this blog which contain snide remarks directed at individuals, it does nothing for your argument, adds nothing to the discussion, and such comments will be deleted. I have deleted comments from posters on both sides, Orthodox and Catholic. Also, some of the comments lately have been a bit sarcastic. I [...]
Dictatus Papae
Posted in Papacy on February 3, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Here’s a question for the Catholic readers of this blog: What is the status of the document Dictatus Papae, issued during the pontificate of Gregory VII? (See a translation of the text of the document here.) It is a document essential to the Catholic understanding of the Papacy? Does Benedict XVI, for instance, understand his [...]
Paths and Polemics
Posted in Papacy on February 3, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Here’s a very interesting review of three apologetical books on the Papacy – two of them Orthodox (The Truth by Clark Carlton, and Two Paths by Michael Whelton) and one Catholic (On This Rock by Stephen Ray) – by Professor William J. Tighe (who has commented on this blog).
Father Schmemann on Universal Primacy
Posted in Ecclesiology, Papacy on February 1, 2007 | 44 Comments »
An age-long anti-Roman prejudice has led some Orthodox canonists simply to deny the existence of [a universal] primacy in the past or the need for it in the present. But an objective study of the canonical tradition cannot fail to establish beyond any doubt that, along with local “centers of agreement” or primacies, the Church [...]
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