Other Catholic Classics – “If we want eighteen-year-olds to have a sufficient Catholic formation, teachers should assign more readings that foster a historical understanding of the faith, a ‘Big Picture’ or ‘Grand Narrative’ of the Catholic past.Books that Should be Assigned Reading in Catholic Schools (First Things)
Skipping Al Smith Dinner – “Kamala Harris is skipping the Al Smith dinner, a Catholic Charities fundraising event hosted by the archbishop of New York at which the two presidential candidates traditionally attend … ” Kamala Harris Snubs Catholics (National Review)
Media’s Ideological Biases – “The Biden-Harris administration has gone all-in on the increasingly unpopular DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) campaigns.” The Media As Stenographers for the Ruling Class (The European Conservative)
Growth of Homeschooling – “The Diocese of San Diego made headlines this week, when The Pillar reported a new diocesan policy forbidding homeschool groups from meeting at parishes within the diocese.” Homeschool and the Church’s future (The Pillar)
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty – “The linchpin connecting its variegated topics is Patitsas’s claim that the West has elevated Truth and Goodness above what was once understood to be their co-equal transcendental: Beauty. ” Up From Hell: Timothy G. Patitsas’s The Ethics of Beauty (Front Porch Republic)
Not Just for Old White Men – “The [Folio Society] publishing house is booming thanks to sci-fi and fantasy novels – and a love of artisanal editions” TikTok meets Tolkien: how the Folio Society attracted gen Z readers (The Guardian)
Expelled for Criticizing Vatican Policies – “Why is the Vatican authorizing the expulsion of members from a lay association, without charging them with any canonical crime? And why is an American archdiocese questioning actions announced by the Peruvian episcopal conference? Something extraordinary is happening here.” Why did the Vatican punish a Catholic journalist? (Catholic Culture)
Meeting about Meetings – “As the three-year synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church limps into its final three weeks of meetings in Rome, even poking fun at it has become a bit tedious.” The Infernal Synod on Synodality (First Things)
A Controversial Convent – “Along with his wife Julie, Gonzaga’s President Thayne McCulloh is listed as a board member of the Friends of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington, which in April became the legal title holder for the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity.” Gonzaga president on board of Arlington nuns’ non-profit (The Pillar)
The SCV Expulsions – “Something is deeply wrong with Rome’s latest treatment of the SCV. And unless that changes, this complicated pontificate—whatever its other strengths—will be held accountable.” Rome, The SCV, and Accountability (First Things)
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Meetings about Meetings can be the caricature; maybe what the Pope is saying, seriously, is that “synod” can be used to convene a group, some group, any group, the peripheries, in order to evangelize the group. And that it “had to be labelled synod” since it would necessarily be “ecclesial component” made up of “ecclesial elements” and “the People of God”.
If, indeed, that were an inspiration from the Holy Spirit, some of the questions arising would be: why are you having to alter Opus Dei; why are you dodging reforming the Jesuits; is evangelization reserved to synods now; and why MUST it be a “synod” at the same time as an evangelization?
‘ It seems to have forgotten about an older way of being Church, even from just twenty-five years ago. ‘ (Fr. de Souza, First Things)
‘ Francis voiced hope that each of the participants would offer their own insights “as a gift to be shared, ready even to sacrifice our own point of view in order to give life to something new.”
“Otherwise, we will end up locking ourselves into dialogues among the deaf, where participants seek to advance their own causes or agendas without listening to others and, above all, without listening to the voice of the Lord,” he said. ‘
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/10/pope-opens-synod-urging-participants-to-be-humble-open-minded
Pope Francis today was giving new explainers of what synodality is -or, would be. Here are some reports on what he conveyed. Presumably “synodality” can’t be a locked dialogue, has guarantees on foiling personal agendas and eschews “being saved alone”?
He is also stressing as a spirituality of mercifulness exemplified in Dante’s literary depiction of humility. This is in the first link, “New ways for Bishops”. Apparently synodalism is a gift of the Holy Spirit making sense of it in the Church.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259597/at-synod-on-synodality-pope-says-church-needs-new-ways-for-bishops-to-be-synodal
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259589/pope-francis-opens-synod-on-synodality-assembly-with-warning-against-personal-agendas
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-10/pope-francis-address-synod-2-october-2024-second-session.html
Is the Pope using the Dante imaging to redeem and bless the Martini gaze of the look? The Pope wants to rehabilitate Martini but not Lefebvre?
https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20210521200540_d0d62f8db1d7d42f4c327440664c312ccdc137daec022bad2a4a5dbc1b94b9c3.webp
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/permanent-synodal-church-martini-dream
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-10/pope-views-a-relic-of-the-chair-of-saint-peter.html
Regarding Kamala Harris skipping the Al Smith dinner:
I am glad that she did, otherwise we would have to look at Cardinal Dolan yukking it up with a person whose main campaign theme is killing as many unborn babies as possible.
Come to think about it, Karmela and Bergoglio seem to have attended the same school of rhetoric.
@ The The SCV Expulsions Expulsions
“Ideological resentment that clings to it”(Maier on the expulsions). Ideological resentment, payback allegedly Rome’s [Pope Francis’] practice of suppression of Gospel faithful Catholic successes.
During the relatively short time I’ve read Francis X Maier’s carefully written well measured critiques I haven’t read as strong a rebuke, not based on hard facts of innocence, rather on the sense [smell] of opprobrium toward the hard facts of success of traditional Catholics. There’s simply too much evidence of papal hypocrisy regarding the endless whitewash, embrace of Rupnik and like scenarios versus the blunt oppression of the innocent Gospel oriented faithful.