The Pontificator on Orthodoxy and Catholicism

I’m sure that the entire Catholic blogosphere breathed a collective sigh of relief when Father Alvin Kimel’s Pontifications came back online after it was hacked. I have always found Pontifications to be an immensely informative blog (both the posts themselves as well as many of the comments, both Orthodox and Catholic). I’m currently going through the archives to glean everything that has been posted relevant to Catholic-Orthodox issues. I thought that I would produce a handy index here (please let me know if I have omitted any important posts):

Posts on East and West in General

• East and West: Is unity a possibility? (6/14/2004)
• Reading with Both Lungs (7/8/2004)
• Balthasar: “The entire form of the Catholic Church” (2/18/2007)

Posts on the Theology of God

• Filioque
• Absolute Divine Simplicity
• The God who is Simple – and not so Simple (2/18/2006)
• Piet Fransen SJ on Created Grace (5/7/2006)
• Joseph Gill on the Council of Florence, Part I (10/18/2006)
• Joseph Gill on the Council of Florence, Part II (10/19/2006)
• Joseph Gill on the Council of Florence, Part III (10/19/2006)
• Theopoiesis vs. Theosis (11/17/2006)
• Eric Mascall on Uncreated and Created Grace (1/2/2007)
• Saint Gregory Palamas: Orthodoxor or Innovator? (3/28/2007)

Posts on Ecclesiology

• The Catholic Church is the Church
• Soloviev on the Papacy
• Ecumenical Councils: Questions for Catholics (6/12/2004)
• My council is ecumenical and yours ain’t … (6/14/2004)
• Let’s dance the Schism! (1/14/2005)
• Is an infallible decree infallible if no one believes it? (6/15/2004)
• Lubac: “Petrine Office and Particular Churches” (6/21/2005)
• Balthasar: “A forum that embodies christological obedience” (6/30/2005)
• Become a Papist? Inconceivable! (6/26/2005)
• The undeniable, offensive, glorious fact of Rome (6/27/2005)
• House of God, or House of Satan? (7/1/2005)
• Swimming the Tiber, or how I came to love infallibility (7/5/2005)
• Does history confute the Pope? (7/5/2005)
• Aidan Nichols on Orthodoxy and the Papacy (7/25/2005)
• Development and Negation II: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (9/3/2005)
• Perry Robinson of Ecclesial Infallibility (3/7/2006)
• The Spiritual Importance of Schism: A Catholic View (3/25/2006)
• Are Catholics and Orthodox in Schism? (4/3/2006)
• Ten thousand scandals do not make one doubt (5/8/2006)
• Identifying the Faith of the “Undivided” Church (7/1/2006)
• Dom Gregory Dix on Saint Peter’s Office (9/28/2006)
• Bad Reason #1 Not to Become Catholic (11/7/2006)

Posts on Original Sin and Immaculate Conception

• The Immaculate Conception … in East and West (8/15/2004)
• Balthasar on the Immaculate Conception (12/8/2006)
• The Originality of Original Sin (4/12/2007)
• The Grammar of Original Guilt (4/19/2007)
• Alfeyev: “The biblical story of the Fall …” (4/20/2007)

Posts on Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Conversion

• Father Alvin Kimel: “My Road to Rome”
• Father Stephen Freeman: “Why Should an Episcopalian Become Orthodox?” (11/10/2004)
• Father Seraphim: “How I Became Orthodox” (1/25/2005)
• Father Chrysostom Frank: “Byzantine Catholicism, I” (2/28/2005)
• Father Chrysostom Frank: “Byzantine Catholicism, II” (2/28/2005)
• Mark Harrison: Why Orthodoxy, Not Rome (4/4/2005)
• Father Alvin Kimel: “Why Not Eastern Orthodoxy?” (6/9/2005)
• Father Addison Hart: “Convert Provocateurs” (4/26/2006)

Posts on Miscellaneous Topics

• Transubstantiation
• Not in Kansas: Contraception (5/21/2004)
• Bad, Bad Augustine (7/5/2004)
• Orthodoxy and the Bodily Assumption of the Theotokos (8/20/2004)
• Is bad liturgy a sign of the true Church? (11/22/2004)
• Towards a Catholic-Orthodox Alliance (4/24/2005)
• Frederica Matthews-Green, “All for One?” (7/15/2005)