Seeing the Forest for the Cathedral – They’re using ancient hand tools & timber framing techniques to restore Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. An Architecture Student’s Project Made Notre Dame’s Restoration Possible (Core77)
Theological Dialogue – “A joint commission of Catholic and Orthodox theologians reached agreement this week on a new document addressing synodality and primacy in the modern era. ” Catholic, Orthodox theologians agree on first new text since 2016 (Pillar)
The Sacred Heart – “Long before the left invented ‘pride month,’ the Catholic Church dedicated June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a tradition originating from the 17th-century visions of Christ received by French nun St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.” Pride Month Zealots Launch Economic Warfare On Homesteading Catholic Family (The Federalist)
Metaphysical Roots – “Schindler’s most enduring legacy will likely be both his work at the John Paul II Institute and his tenure as the editor-in-chief of the English language edition of the journal Communio, a position which he occupied from 1982 until his death.” Remembering David L. Schindler’s Radical Vision (Church Life Journal)
Pro-Life Activists – “Visitors to the offices of the Silver Spring Gynecology and Family Planning clinic are allowed to bring one support person to their abortion appointments. Kristin Turner, who scheduled an appointment for the first slot of the day on January 21, brought about a dozen.” Red Rose Rescue: Peaceful obstructionism at an abortion clinic. (Comment)
A Complex Group – “I have worked in homelessness services over two decades and it has never been easy. Verbal assaults are commonplace and even physical assaults have been known to happen.” This is why I call it the Homeless Industrial Complex (Truth on the Streets)
State-Mandated Celebration – “Canada has now extended its Pride Month to a full-blown Pride Season. God help us.” Will Pride ever end? (Spiked)
Pentecostal Sensibilities – “With CBN, ‘The 700 Club,’ Regent, the Christian Coalition, and a run for president, he changed evangelicals’ place in public life.” Died: Pat Robertson, Broadcast Pioneer Who Brought Christian TV to the Mainstream (Christianity Today)
Abortion on Demand – “It’s hard to imagine anyone being proud to champion the goal of legalizing killing babies in the womb for any reason up to birth.” Kamala Harris Uses God’s Name to Promote Abortions Up to Birth (Life News)
The Vatican and America – “The current Camerlengo, for the record, is an American: Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who thus is in line to become the first American ever to be the Vatican’s sovereign . . . ” Ranking the most powerful Americans in the Vatican of all time (Crux)
Civilizational Patrimony – “Our dark hour calls for a recovery of the statesman’s virtues.” A Time for Greatness, Courage, and Moderation (American Mind)
Fidelity Month – “We first learn to be faithful citizens as we explore the small postage stamp of terrain that we did not choose to go to, but simply awakened to with our first dawn of consciousness.” Fidelity to Place (Public Discourse)
Disgruntled Graduates – “The Washington Post just spent 5,000 words and two years of reporting to smear something it demanded every parent do just three years ago.” Washington Post’s Homeschooling Smears Won’t Stanch Public School Hemorrhage (The Federalist)
Sharing Files – “Father James W. Jackson, a Rhode Island priest previously assigned to St. Mary’s Church in Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to a charge of receipt of child pornography . . . “RI Priest Admits to Federal Child Pornography Charges, After Multi-State Investigation (Go Local Prov News)
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A GOOD MOVE, and a chance to reign-in what has been called “synodality” over the past three years.
What is supported in the new agreement among theologians is an opening from the East toward what the bishops of the Second Vatican Council articulated clearly as the “hierarchical communion” of the papacy together with the college of bishops—not blurred with the non-ordained and other walk-ons. See Lumen Gentium Chapter 3 together with the Explanatory Note misplaced at the very end of the constitution (Pope Paul VI instructed that his Note was to place his Note—written by the Internationals Theological Commission—was to be placed at the front of Chapter 3 so that possible ambiguities in that chapter could not be misinterpreted by termites after the Council (documented in Fr. Ralph M. Wiltgen, “The Rhine Flows into the Tiber: A History of Vatican II,” pp. 232-234).
A good move UNLESS, of course, the Orthodox Churches observe that in the West the term synod/synodality has been redefined as an open door to possibly upend moral theology and even binary human sexual complementarity. DEJAS VU: One is reminded of the Council of Florence (1439) where the East and West agreed on what the term “filioque” actually means—and does not mean—with regard to the Divine Nature. An agreement which was rejected fourteen years after it got back to the East, in 1453 (when the West failed to help protect Constantinople from Islamic invasion).
Today, another agreement, but including (inclusivity!) both a big-tent redefinition of “synod,” and possibly Secularism’s invasive redefinition of what natural law means and does not mean, that is, the moral theology of the human person and even our universal Human Nature.