Why Vatican II Was Necessary
Writing my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig into the Council’s 16 texts and the many fine commentaries on them. […]
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by bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | Hans Urs von Balthasar, John XXIII, Joseph Ratzinger, Msgr. Giuseppe De Luca, News, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
Writing my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig into the Council’s 16 texts and the many fine commentaries on them. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, First Things, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Matthew Levering, News, progressivism, R.R. Reno, ressourcement, second vatican countil, Thomism, traditionalism | 0 |
Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Books, Features, Hans Urs von Balthasar, interview, News, Richard Clements, The Meaning of the World Is Love | 0 |
Richard Clements, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University, is the author of The Meaning of the World Is Love: Selected Texts from Hans Urs von Balthasar with Commentary (Ignatius Press, 2022). […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 17, 2022 | 2022, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Eric Sammons, Hans Urs von Balthasar, James Matthew Wilson, Jesus Christ, Joey Gloor, News, Peter Laffin’s ‘Understanding Bishop Robert Barron’, Pope Francis, Rad-Trad attacks on Bishop Barron, Taylor Marshall, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Merton, Word On Fire, ‘Catholicism’ video series | 0 |
In the Catholic media bubble, Bishop Robert Barron is more often defined by what he is not than what he…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Communio, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Ignatius Press, Joseph Ratzinger, News, st bernards, The Dispatch | 0 |
Fifty years ago, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger, among others, founded the theological journal “Communio,” which set out, as Balthasar put it, to “fight at all costs against the deadly […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 26, 2022 | Anthony Fauci, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, christianity, Essay, God, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jesus Christ, News, Opinion, Science, Scientism, The Church, worldview | 0 |
It has become fairly common in these post-Covid times to distinguish very carefully between science and scientism, or between science and The ScienceTM. The distinction generally goes something like this: Science is a method for […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Churches, ecclesiology, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Messiah, News, Prophets, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | atonement, Benedict XVI, carmelites, Christology, God the Father, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Holy Spirit, Ignatius Press, Jesus Christ, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Norbert Hoffmann, Pope St. John Paul II, Salvation, Scripture, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, The Dispatch, Trinity | 0 |
Margaret M. Turek, S.T.D., is Professor of Theology and Chair of Dogmatic Theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University. After studying and earning degrees at the University of San Francisco (where she studied in the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2022 | Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jesus Christ, News, parable of the prodigal son, St. Ambrose, St. Peter Chrysologus, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Jos 5:9a, 10-12 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 • 2 Cor 5:17-21 • Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 The parable of the prodigal son is, along with the parable of the good Samaritan, the best-known […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, divinization, Hans Urs von Balthasar, iconography, News, Saint Augustine, The Dispatch, The Spirit of the Liturgy | 0 |
What does it mean to see God? Are there special places to look, or particular ways to adjust our vision so that we might overcome our blind-spots about God—or much else? I spent the fall […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 28, 2021 | 2021, A New Chapter of Grace, at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Catholic Church, Catholic cultural tradition, Catholic literary tradition, Catholicism, Columns, Craft Catholicism Coherence, Hans Urs von Balthasar, James Matthew Wilson, Joshua Hren, Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, News, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
James Matthew Wilson: At Houston’s University of St. Thomas, students may earn a MA studying Craft, Catholicism, and Coherence in writing.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Ambrose Bierce, Book of Wisdom, death, Elijah, Elisha, Ezekiel, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jesus Christ, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, July 1, 2018 […]
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