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Link Roundup: Feb. 1, 2016
We have, so far, not done a sort of “link roundup,” as other blogs have, but there are several really interesting pieces, which we want to pass along to you, dear reader, without burdening you with...
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“Octogesima adveniens” and socialism after the Iowa Democratic caucus
We have so far refrained from discussing secular politics. (We have not refrained from discussing Church politics, though perhaps we ought to have done.) As of the time of writing, CNN reported that...
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A little more on socialism after Iowa
No sooner did we discuss whether a Catholic could support Bernie Sanders due to Sanders’s self-identification as a democratic socialist did Fr. Dwight Longenecker take up the question at Patheos....
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Everything stays down where it’s wounded
The Holy Father today (yesterday?) in Rome gave a brief catechesis at his general audience on the subject of mercy and justice. It is in Italian, but excerpts have been translated by the VIS. (You can...
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Some remarks on Kaveny and Neuhaus
A sharp young Catholic of our acquaintance has pointed us to an interesting exchange over the past couple of weeks. At Commonweal, Cathleen Kaveny argued that the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus sowed...
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Link Roundup: Feb. 7, 2016
First, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., has been engaged at Sancrucensis in dialogue with an anonymous author who has, as the result of the author’s philosophical speculations, defected from the...
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Update on Catholic Action
Updating our Link Roundup from yesterday, we note that, at The Josias today, “Petrus Hispanus” responds to Gabriel Sanchez. Notably, “Petrus Hispanus” argues, Leo XIII and St. Pius X favored the...
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Henry VIII and Hampton Court Vespers
Prof. Jack Scarisbrick, an expert on Henry VIII, has a piece at the Catholic Herald that begins, How would King Henry VIII react to the news that Cardinal Vincent Nichols will preside at Catholic...
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The Ordinariate Office and the laity
David Clayton has a lengthy, excellent piece at New Liturgical Movement about the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham (that is, the English Ordinariate’s version of the Divine Office). He argues, From...
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The Joint Declaration
The Holy Father and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow have, in the wake of their historic meeting in Cuba, released a joint declaration, which is, to a great extent, in the words of Fr. John Hunwicke, is...
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Scalia’s Death
It is hard to imagine America without Antonin Scalia. Hero to conservatives, bête noire to the left, Scalia was a judge unlike any other judge in the history of the Republic. And his death seems...
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Link Roundup: Feb. 14, 2016
Starting off with a classic from the archives, when Seamus Heaney died a few years back, Jesuit Fr. Joseph Koczera posted a lengthy, lovely piece about religious aspects in Heaney’s work. Given the...
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More on the Joint Declaration from Patriarch Sviatoslav
We recently quoted a statement by Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, on the Joint Declaration of the Holy Father and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. It seems that...
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All the battles you’ve fought (and lost)
Rod Dreher sets forth a social conservative’s case for Donald Trump at The American Conservative. In itself, that’s an interesting argument. Dreher argues that the “real” fight is over religious...
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Blink and you’ll miss it: Pope says post-Synodal exhortation may be released...
Catholics are abuzz with the suggestion that the Holy Father approved in some manner contraceptive use in the context of South America’s Zika virus crisis during his in-flight press conference on the...
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Link Roundup: Feb. 22, 2016
Note: This Link Roundup, in addition to coming a day late, is devoted to a single topic. The Holy Father’s recent statements about contraception in the light of South America’s Zika virus crisis have...
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The 1998 Doctrinal Commentary and the Papal Magisterium
In recent days—which is to say, in the wake of the Holy Father’s comments on the plane ride back from Mexico—we have noticed some worried analyses, the thrust of which is that the Magisterium is in...
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How I’ve learned to please, to doubt myself in need
At The Paraphasic, Elliot Milco argues that conservative despair results from a conservative disposition without goals: Food is conserved in conditions of scarcity. Forests are conserved when they are...
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The pro-life movement and the sickness of modernity
In reading Roberto Riviera’s thought-provoking piece at Ethika Politika about “Pro Life 2.0,” we were reminded of one of the Holy Father’s most incisive points in Laudato si’: The basic problem goes...
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Piloting towards an unknown shore through shoals
It is plain by now that the Holy Father has a soft spot for the Society of St. Pius X. It was, of course, a great disappointment when negotiations broke down between the Holy See and the SSPX back in...
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