Monthly Archives: August 2015

UPDATE:  Just read a part in Congar’s Journal about birth control.  He wrote that he hoped the Pope would take a moral approach to the issue; that people were approaching the whole matter in a materialistic way as if they … Continue reading →

Came across this blog post about how reform in the Catholic Church really means restoration, not change.   In reading Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s book,Mystery and Sacrament of Love: a Theology of Marriage for the New Evangelization, I see how much … Continue reading →

I believe the intent of the fathers of the Second Vatican Council was to renew the Church through going back to the Church Fathers and Scripture so as to update the presentation of the timeless truths the Gospel in ways … Continue reading →

I have always enjoyed Oliver Sachs writing.  This essay in the New York Times is no exception. MY mother and her 17 brothers and sisters had an Orthodox upbringing — all photographs of their father show him wearing a yarmulke, … Continue reading →

Not long ago, I was named to the Board of the Anglican Use Society and no sooner did I become a member, we launched into a debate about changing the name. Some of the reasons for the name-change—Anglican Use seemed … Continue reading →

My fellow Ordinariate member from the United States Shane Shaetzel has a new post up at Catholic in the Ozarks about how Vatican II actually saved the Catholic Church. He writes:  In spite of its flaws (and there were some … Continue reading →

I received Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s book Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage and Family for the New Evangelization in the mail along with an assignment from my boss to write a story on it in light of … Continue reading →

In my readings related to the Second Vatican Council and influential theologians, one of my favorites so far is Cardinal Jean Danielou. I am reading his God and the Ways of Knowing, and while flying home from California I read … Continue reading →

It is so interesting to read Yves Congar’s My Journal of the Council to read the behind the scenes account of the battle among theologians like himself with what he described as the rigid ultramontanism of the conservatives, who resisted … Continue reading →