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 [...]
