Alessio II: “Bene il ritorno alla messa in latino”

Here’s an interesting interview (in Italian) with His Holiness, Alexis II, the Patriarch of Moscow, who is enthusiastic about the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. (Translation of relevant bits and commentary by Father Zuhlsdorf).

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Orthodox Readings of Saint Augustine

This month’s Touchstone magazine features an interesting review of the “Orthodox Readings of Augustine” Conference held at Fordham University last June, written by a good friend of this blog, Professor William J. Tighe.

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Congar on Church, State and the Schism (3)

Part I | Part II
The position taken by Constantine in regard to Rome was largely fostered by the powerful Roman ideology that had been transferred to Constantinople, the ‘New Rome.’ The politico-religious thought of the Emperors and the people was to be affected first; the canonico-theological thought of the Patriarchs and clergy was to be [...]

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Gosh darn Uniates!

Father Maximos, a Greek Catholic monk at the Anastasis Dialog, comments on the latest complaint of the Patriarch of Moscow against “Uniates.” And from the combox, an interesting quote by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia from 2004:
I very much regret that because of this question the Catholic-Orthodox International Dialogue seems to be making very little [...]

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Congar on Church, State and the Schism (2)

See part I here.
The persistent theme of the Popes’ opposition to the Basileus and the Patriarch of Constantinople was their refusal to accept the idea that any exercise of juridical power on the part of the Church in the Empire derived from some political or imperial statute. They insisted, in these cases, that it [...]

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Two new interesting blogs

Principium Unitatis, “A blog dedicated to the reunion of all Christians” (by Bryan Cross); and Pontiffixations, “Ponderings on the Papacy by a Sympathetic Protestant” (Tim Enloe).

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Congar on Church, State and the Schism (1)

The division of the Roman Empire into two parts was perhaps inevitable for there had been the Tetrarchy of Diocletian in 292. However, the split that is here under study, the seed of which was indisputably planted by Constantine, finally had an effect on the Church itself. For this reason it is important that we [...]

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