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The Angelus August 2008
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:50 AM CST |
Steroids are on the way to Angelus Press. Like steroids for the brain. German steroids. Fr. Markus Heggenberger, most recently from a professorship at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and, before that, St. Mary's Academy and College, will join the Angelus Press staff in September in order to someday lead it. On behalf of those who depend on Angelus Press and those who are coming to depend on it in the days of the lingering crisis and the Summorum Pontificum kickstart, I thank Bishop Fellay and Fr. John Fullerton for their attention and graciousness. For myself, I tell you, Fr. Heggenberger will be most welcome.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:45 AM CST |
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To understand the attraction that the secularized American model has for Pope Benedict XVI, we must go back to his Christmas Address to the Curia on December 22, 2005. In this address, which gave the program of his pontificate, he defended an "hermeneutic of continuity" of Vatican II, and strove to show that the novelties introduced by the Council, such as religious liberty, ecumenism, or interreligious dialogue, were inscribed in the constant Tradition of the Church. He acknowledged, however, that Vatican II had sought to "determine in a new way the relationship between the Church and the modern era." He justified this evolution by a change of historical circumstances where the United States played a major role.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:40 AM CST |
The unprecedented crisis in the Church will not be brought to an end by expatiating on the different hermeneutics and their value, but by denouncing false or heretical interpretations and excluding their authors from ecclesiastical functions or teaching. Indeed, if it is true that there are two hermeneutics in opposition, and if we admit, as we seem compelled to do, that at least one of the two is completely erroneous....Our most fervent wish and liveliest hope is that Peter, who since the Council was and continues to be Peter, no longer content himself with being Peter but that he act as Peter. In these hours of uncertainty and hope, we all have the duty to pray for this intention with renewed fervor.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:35 AM CST |
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More than 40 years after its close, the debate about the correct interpretation of the Council continues. But an even more fundamental question must be examined: What authority can a council have when the contending interpretations of its documents involve the Church in something far more serious than academic disputes? For if the thesis of rupture with the previous magisterium were true, there would be two legitimate teaching authorities without continuity between them; it would spell the birth of a new magisterium and thus a new Church. If, on the contrary, the conservative, typically Ratzingerian thesis of continuity between the pre- and post-conciliar Church were true, it would be necessary to reconcile the irreconcilable: ecumenism, collegiality, religious liberty, and modern ecclesiology with the traditional magisterium; the dogmatic tenor of the Tridentine Mass with the dogmatic tenor of Pope Paul VI's Mass, and so on.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:30 AM CST |
St. Pius X did not live in a vacuum, but was part of the pontifical environment of his times, an era from 1832-1958. I have picked six popes who included in their various agenda the priority to hand down the Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church intact. These were Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:25 AM CST |
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The purpose of the Spiritual Exercises is straightforward and simple: to save one's soul. Just as the flabby body benefits from exercise, so does the slothful soul respond to spiritual exercise, and the Church has in the time-honored and now sadly neglected Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola the solution to the problem. A retreat dedicated to these exercises will be of far greater benefit to the melancholy than two weeks at the fat farm might be for the overly self-indulgent.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:20 AM CST |
The attractiveness of youth is that it makes a gift of itself without counting the cost. In the practice of his duty, the ways by which a leader gives himself will be imposed on him. He gives himself according to the Scout spirit, its Law and its Oath. He gives himself according to the demands of those under his charge, though they may be quite unforeseeable and as diverse as the number looking to his leadership. For instance, the leader never makes fun of the secret confidence of a young charge. He does not judge it rashly according to his own preference. He will always draw out its higher resonance. Being all things to all men, even to the subordinate, he makes himself flexible enough to appreciate the form of the ideal confided.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:15 AM CST |
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The history of Japan is a long series of conflicts between lords and of civil wars to obtain the shogunate. The political situation at the time of the missionaries' arrival was favorable to the development of Christianity. The daimyo, local feudal lords, were absolute masters in their domains and jealous of their independence. The daimyo could accept or prescribe in all freedom the Christian religion with no one to contradict them. Moreover, by embracing this religion, they gave themselves greater independence. Through the missionaries they could enter in relations with the heads of foreign states and send or receive embassies. This also explains why Christianity obtained so much success among the territorial nobility, whose example obviously had a strong influence on samurais and on the people.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:10 AM CST |
Ought traditional Catholic chapels to have "cry rooms"? Are there two different kinds of Secularism? Are there two different kinds of Pluralism?
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:05 AM CST |
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Since our Lord Jesus Christ is now living (risen and glorious), the presence of His Body or His Blood necessitates the presence of His whole person (body, blood, soul, and divinity); His Body and Blood can no longer be separated physically. And yet, per se, merely by the power of the consecratory words, it is the Body that is made present under the appearances of the bread, and the Blood under the appearances of wine; the Body and Blood of Christ are in a certain way separated by the sacrament (because of the double consecration).
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:00 AM CST |
With familiarity and time frequently comes love. How often is this so with our own homes. After many comfortable years in one house, we grow to love the place. We do not observe its defects, or we just ignore them. My home is the one place I love most. Of course, the walls are scratched and the floors are rutted, but I cherish it despite the myriad of home-improvements it needs.
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