With Swimming the Tiber, Timing is Everything

The stampede of bishops from the Church of England continues: In little more than a year, four former Church of England bishops have come into full communion with the Catholic Church, either through the ordinary Roman Catholic diocese or through the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a Catholic diocese with Anglican traditions for the …

Book Review: Richard Niebuhr’s The Social Sources of Denominationalism

It's another pet peeve of mine: Americans can't bring themselves to discuss the effects of class differentiation in the life of the church, let alone the life of the nation. They'll talk about just about every other type of differentiation, especially those related to race or gender. But class? Off the table. That applies to …

The Hidden Life of Jesus Until His Baptism

This section of the Elevations concentrates on Jesus’ growing up years, and specifically the one incident that is recorded in the Gospel: his visit to Jerusalem, his separation from his parents, his time in the Temple with the Jewish sages, and his reunion with his parents. The weeks are as follows: The hidden life of …

The Passage from Jerome that Landed @bethallisonbarr in a Mess

It's this one, from Jerome's Letter 108, his panegyric to Paula at the time of her death: Inflamed by their virtues she thought more and more each moment of forsaking her home. Disregarding her house, her children, her servants, her property, and in a word everything connected with the world, she was eager — alone …

Beginning of the Persecutions of the Child Jesus

These elevations concern Jesus’ escape into Egypt from Herod’s clutches, the massacre of the Innocents, and his return to Galilee. In the process …Beginning of the Persecutions of the Child Jesus

For a New Year: Isaiah 43

It's a New Year, and with each new one we seem to need more fortifying than ever. This classic comes from Canada, and it's a cover of Cathy Zawaki's moving "Isaiah 43." https://youtu.be/EOQdgcLcE6U The entire album where the Word of God recorded this is here: https://youtu.be/EdTcRXyK9ac Happy New Year!

The Why and How of Translating Elevations on the Mysteries

Translating Elevations on the Mysteries has been a major project for me, now it is done. Some explanation as to why I did it and how I did it is in …The Why and How of Translating Elevations on the Mysteries

Nicene Theology and Patristic Exegesis Go Together

I never thought I'd live long enough to read this statement: I realized that if classical theism was to be retrieved, it was necessary to defend the superiority of patristic exegesis, a project I undertook in Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (2018). By the time I published my …

Book Review: “Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel”

Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil. By John F. X. Knasas. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America …Book Review: “Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel”

Anglicanism: Reformed Catholicism, Protestant and Catholic

The question that continues to vex Anglicanism (perhaps since the time of the Reformation but even more so over the last 200 years) is whether she is…Anglicanism: Reformed Catholicism, Protestant and Catholic This is one of the more intelligent treatments of this complicated subject. I think there are two core problems here. On the Protestant …

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