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Category Archives: Patristiblogging
REVIEW: The book on Augustine which Pope Benedict would have wanted to write.
I am reading a new biography of Augustine published by a fresh, talented writer, Miles Hollingworth. Don’t let the title, St Augustine of Hippo, An Intellectual Biography, fool you. This is not a highbrow book intended for college professors, with … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Patristiblogging, REVIEWS
Tagged Miles Hollingworth, review, St. Augustine
12 Comments
12 Comments
Three Degrees of Anger
I had an email from the Benedictines at Norcia in Italy. They sent the text of a sermon given some time ago by Fr. Cassian Folsom, OSB. Given recent events and the sermon’s topic, it occurred to me that we … Read More
The Patristic Rosary Project Revisited – Annunciation
Some years ago, I posted a series of entries here wherein I looked at the mysteries of the Rosary through some quotations by Fathers of the Church. Here is what I wrote about the Annunciation. _________ Because October is dedicated … Read More
On Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about fear and that terrible day
As we have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous Sunday: John 20:19-31. Pope St. Gregory the Great (+604) preached on … Read More
Garry Wills getting it wrong in Hell’s Bible
Hell’s Bible published something by the execrable Garry Wills, who hates the Church and the Pope. His opinions are what you would expect from an angry Irish ex-Catholic. Blah blah blah. But, in case you bother to read him, don’t … Read More
NSR: Making Church history up as they go!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, the journal of record for heretics and schismatics everywhere (aka Fishwrap), there is an article by one Richard Gaillardetz, the “Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College”, ostensibly about women, ordination and … Read More
WDTPRS: Candlemas
Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Candlemas, Christmas, Presentation of the Lord
18 Comments
18 Comments
Did Jesus tell the Apostles to buy weapons? Yes. To use them?
I have been thinking through the “gun” controversy. I am also thinking about what it means for me, a priest. For example, what does a concealed carry weapon (CCW) mean for a priest versus for a layperson? Some people will … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Semper Paratus, The Drill
Tagged 2nd amendment, CCW, concealed, gun control, Luke 22, St. Ambrose
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26 Comments
“Certain offices in human society require the officeholder to be loved and feared of men.”
Here is a little Patristiblogger offering for your midday consideration. This morning a priest friend and I were talking about the problems of leadership and being hated, loved, or feared. Classic question: Is it better to be loved or feared? … Read More
Not Just Too Cool but Super Too Cool
I will do more about this later, since I am in a moving bus, but this news got me worked up. Some has discovered 29 unknown sermons of the 3rd century Alexandrian theologian Origen. The intrepid Tornielli in Vatican Insider … Read More
Ecce vide, pulchra sumus
In rooting around in my things while writing an article for the paper, I found a great quote of Augustine. For Augustine all created things in the universe, even inanimate things, both give witness to God and give Him glory. … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Patristiblogging
Tagged creation, environmentalism, St. Augustine, theology of environment
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3 Comments
A Sunday afternoon riff on salty bread and Chinese noodles
I am enjoying a break in my evening for a bit of frivolous entertainment. I was going to watch Bladerunner, but opted for something considerably lighter. However, in a moment of post-modern self-conscious connection-making I’ll make a connection between this … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z's Kitchen, Patristiblogging, Random Thoughts, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Christus via et patria, dante, exile, Mr. Ping, s. 123, St. Augustine
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9 Comments
Stop the whining LCWR. You aren’t the only group getting an extreme make-over.
Long-time lax catholics may not enjoy the resection and sutures the physicians of the CDF and the USCCB are applying to certain groups within Holy Church, but, as St. Augustine once preached, a doctor doesn’t stop cutting just because the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged formation, Ireland, Irish Church, LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, magisterium of nuns, priesthood, seminaries, Visitation
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21 Comments
St. Monica and her incipient alcoholism with some Latin
From Serge Lancel’s Augustine, the best biography I know of the great Bishop of Hippo (p. 8 ff – emphases mine): Before devoting himself entirely to Mother Church, as he approached the age of forty, Augustine had had a concubine … Read More
Priest, predictably, criticized for telling people not to receive Communion if they are not in the state of grace. Fishwrap exalts.
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that a priest in loony Austria told a parish congregation that if they were not in the state of grace, they should not receive Communion… and they didn’t! The … Read More
“Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them…”
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to … Read More
QUAERITUR: Formula for distribution of Communion in Ordinary Form
From a priest: Do you know when exactly the formula for giving Communion to the faithful was changed? In the Ordinary Form the minister says “Corpus Christi… The Body of Christ” and the communicant responds “Amen”. In the Extraordinary Form … Read More
The Patristic angle of the new Ordinariate
Today in Houston there was a presser with Card. DiNardo of Houston-Galveston and Msgr. Steenson the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter. Both men has good Patristic credentials. Card. DiNardo is an alumus of my school, … Read More
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