Jun
14
Lee Faber’s Scotus Blog
June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Lee Faber writes a blog called The Smithy, which is dedicated to scholastic philosophy in a general sort of way but principally to the thought of Blessed Duns Scotus. I’ve just finished a term working with through the philosophy of Scotus and Ockham with one of the best students I’ve ever had in 25 years [...]
Jun
13
Again With the “He’s Catholic but…”!
June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In a comment that he later erased himself (and a good thing he did, too, or I would have had to taunt him and unplug my nose in his general direction) Apollodorus took me to task for the way I treated Homeschooling Mom in my post As Opposed to An Open Heretic? (he also disapproved [...]
Jun
12
Things Could Be a Lot Worse
June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment
I no longer have to attend “churches” like this one, and if I go to Confession frequently and faithfully and sincerely do all of my Penances, perhaps I never will again.
Jun
12
As Opposed to An Open Heretic?
June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
People often use words in ways that they don’t exactly mean. Sometimes this is due to mere carelessness, other times it is due to not understanding completely the full ramifications of what they are saying. I’m certainly guilty of both of these sorts of misstatements, and I’m also guilty of saying things that later, upon [...]
Jun
11
Fixing the Mass
June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Most people who read my blog regularly already know my own liturgical tastes, but for an interesting statement of them by somebody else, there is an excellent post by Fr. Al Kimel at Pontifications. He’s right about everything except the normative language of the Mass being in the “language of the people”. I hate that [...]
Jun
11
The Continuing Crisis
June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
There is a rather poignant passage early on in Aristotle’s treatise on moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics. It was Aristotle’s custom, in his philosophical treatises, to survey the opinions of other philosophers before launching into an exposition of his own views. This element of his philosophical style is often called the “endoxic method”, after the [...]
Jun
11
Anglican Communion in Crisis
June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
About a week ago I got an email from Princeton University Press announcing the publication of Anglican Communion in Crisis:
How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism by Miranda K. Hassett, a student in the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I find the thesis of the book itself interesting enough, but add [...]
Jun
4
Music and the Form of the Good
June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
To be perfectly honest, dear reader, I begin this post in the hope of allowing myself the luxury, at some point herein, to trash the liturgical tastes of my co-religionists at great length, because verily I say unto you that I have suffered through too many banal liturgies with too much banal music and I [...]
Jun
3
Populus Trinitatis
June 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In just a few weeks, on 4 July, it will be the 820th anniversary of the defeat of the Crusaders in the Battle of Hittin. I was reminded of this the other day while reading a review in the Wall Street Journal of Robert Laqueur’s new book, The Last Days of Europe. Laqueur is not [...]
Jun
2
Cretin Museum
June 2, 2007 | 2 Comments
John Farrell of Farrell Media had some fun yesterday with Evolution News, and I recommend perusing his comments. Indeed, John is a great science writer who also takes his religion very seriously, and he’s worth reading in general (some folks may be familiar with him from stuff he’s had published in First Things).
I’m sorry to [...]