Dating the schism

I just happened across this very helpful tidbit written by our friend, Professor William J. Tighe, for the dearly lamented Pontifications. The context is a response to a passage from Louis Bouyer’s The Church of God (1982).
It is true that the date of 1054 is wholly “symbolic” (however important a symbol it later became) and [...]

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Orthodox Reactions to the CDF Document

The latest issue of the Europaica Bulletin presents a number of interesting Orthodox reactions to the recent ecclesiological statement of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Both Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk (Moscow’s ecumenical representative) and Bishop Hilarion of Vienna (Moscow’s representative to the European institutions) are positive in their assessment of the document. [...]

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Anglicans on the Roman Primacy (1867-1968)

I just found an interesting online Ph.D. dissertation, An Analysis of Anglican Concepts of the Papal Magisterium from the First Through the Tenth Lambeth Conference, by Burns K. Seeley (St. Paul University, Ottawa, 1971). Seeley was an Anglican at the time he was writing his dissertation; at some point, he became a Roman Catholic and [...]

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The Anastasis Dialog

A very promising new blog has just come to my attention, entitled The Anastasis Dialog: Spiritual Ecumenism at Work. The blog is a ministry of Holy Resurrection Monastery, a wonderful men’s community living the fullness of the Byzantine monastic spirituality in full communion with the See of Old Rome. Of particular interest is the growing [...]

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An excerpt from the Fifth Ecumenical Council

(OK, so I lied. One more thing before I go silent for a little while …)
Perry (“Acolyte”) from Energetic Procession has posted an excerpt from the acts of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, which he presents as a piece of counter-evidence to Catholic claims about the Papacy. Perry notes that he has not been able to [...]

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Things are still hectic …

… as I said earlier, so I really need to buckle down and neglect the blog for a while. I will not be moderating comments either, so if you leave one, it will take a while to appear. Thanks!

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“Subsistit in”

An interesting story from Kath.net:
According to well-informed circles in the Vatican, there will be a new document by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on a hot topic. It will deal with the self-conception of the Church and will supposedly be released July 10th. This document will state the unique character of [...]

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An interesting quote

“I do not deny that there are differences between the Churches, but I say that we must change our way of approaching them. And the question of method is in the first place a psychological, or rather a spiritual problem. For centuries there have been conversations between theologians, and they have done nothing except to [...]

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Rome and Cyprus

Papal Address to Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus
Chrysostomos II’s Address to Benedict XVI
Common Declaration of Pope and Chrysostomos II

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Exposed!

The jig is up! Your host has been exposed in his dastardly attempt to suppress one article by a Jesuit scholar dealing with Eastern synodal traditions as they might apply to a reform of national episcopal conferences in the Roman Church. Surely I must have known that this one article has within it the [...]

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