This is Latin Integralist Silliness

yeah the Magna Carta was duly condemned and annulled by the Lord Innocent P.P. III

— 🕯 🕯 🕯 Clerk of Benedict 🕯 🕯 🕯 (@hadrianussept) December 29, 2020

Lost in Translation?

The fact that Christ's first disciple is a Jewish man with a Greek name foreshadows the universal mission of the Church. Specifically, it signals how the first Christians will fuse the intellectual cultures of Jerusalem and Athens in their earliest preaching of the resurrection.

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) December 1, 2020

Was there a problem when Apostolic Christianity, which was primarily expressed in Greek, was translated into Latin?

How Will History Judge Francis?

Pope Francis to head of German bishop's conference: "There is already a protestant German church. We don't need another one!" You would think that was unambigious - but not for a German bishop. #theology #Germany https://t.co/qBXCh4xzyS

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) September 24, 2020

Latin Integralists and Ultramontanists Unhappy with Weigel's Take on the Loss of the Papal States

Even though Weigel holds on to the more problematic of Rome's claims, the ones re: the Church Universal. Apparently he needs to repent and embrace papal caesarism.

The loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission.https://t.co/9agwmqGGwK

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) September 23, 2020

"The purpose of the sacrilegious usurpation of Our rule is the destruction of the force and efficacy of the Papal primacy and eventually the Catholic religion itself."

Pius IX, "Etsi multa" (1873) https://t.co/y0Nzp0ZWWq

— Rafael de Arízaga (@RafaeldeArizaga) September 23, 2020

Who Will Be Able to Write a Fair Accoutn of His Pontificate?

This card carrying Bergoglian says Francis has adopted an even-handed approach so there are no winners of losers in the Church

Tell that to the Franciscan Friars & Sisters of the Immaculate

Or priests and religious who have been excommunicated https://t.co/7F9RV8Zor5

— Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) September 5, 2020

Updated:

Papal Adviser Writes Lengthy Analysis of Pope’s Approach to Governance and Reform https://t.co/GYNZHnUf2R @NCRegister @antoniospadaro pic.twitter.com/cTCQJqtX3Q

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 7, 2020

English Spirituality

"The broadly Catholic and Orthodox spirituality of Anglo-Saxons grew into more uniquely English flowering through S. Anselm, English anchorites and solitaries, English Cistercians, Walter Hilton and the Canons Regular, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe,》https://t.co/JlSvKejGIq

— Akenside Institute for English Spirituality (@AkensideInst) September 1, 2020

Pearl of Great Price by Christian Browne

Arouca Press

"Browne’s book is an innovative telling of a forgotten period of the Catholic Church’s past, and a creative complement to studies on the French Revolution’s enduring impact on Western civilization." - @DavidGBonaguraJ for @ubookman https://t.co/pXl1v9cjDm

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 1, 2020

CWR: When French revolutionaries sacked Rome and kidnapped the pope

Apostles of Empire by Bronwen McShea

University of Nebraska Press - the author's website and Twitter

Just finished @bronwenmcshea’s “Apostles of Empire”. It’s excellent. The story of the French Jesuits in New France provides plenty of food for thought as regards the relationship between Christians and the temporal power in non-liberal societies. https://t.co/FtdKZ0rLqr

— William (@Amariusque) May 11, 2020

CWR: A Jesuit Empire by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Bronwen McShea’s Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France demonstrates how French Jesuits simultaneously spread the Catholic Faith and the cause of France in the New World.

Thomistic Institute: Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France | Prof. Bronwen McShea

Adrian Vermeule's review for America Magazine

UU "History"

Unitarian Universalists... did the authors consult any reputable historians before pushing out an article like this? They should have consulted non-Western Christians as well.

‘This present paradise’ by Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Parker
For almost 1,000 years, the Christian church emphasized paradise, not Crucifixion. How Christianity took a disastrous turn, and how we can rediscover paradise today.

They distort the Gospel to a message of self-actualization, self-divinization.

Nearly everything we had previously understood about Christian history, theology, and ritual began to shift as we delved deeper into the meaning of paradise. Our new book, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, reaches back nearly four thousand years to explore how the ancient people of West Asia imagined paradise. It shows how the Bible’s Hebrew prophets invoked the Garden of Eden to challenge the exploitation and carnage of empires. It shows how Jesus’s teachings and the practices of the early church affirmed life in this world as the place of salvation. Within their church communities, Christians in the first millennium sought to help life flourish in the face of imperial power, violence, and death.

The Kingdom is at hand. But this world is not the Kingdom. The Kingdom replaces this world.

What led Western Christianity to replace resurrection and life with a Crucifixion-centered salvation and to relegate paradise to a distant afterlife?

Even Latin Christianity still affirms life; orthodox Christianity recognizes that Christ gives life by destroying death with the cross, but it also recognizes that the waves of sin is death. Do the Unitarians have any understanding of sin? Or of a God who is distinct from us? While some Latins may think of heaven as a completely separate reality, not all do.

If they think that popular Latin Christianity has been wrong, then they should look to other forms of Apostolic Christianity. But they're more interested in "debunking" Christianity in favor of their man-made religion than in Christ, who was just another wise human teacher anyways.

Not Something to Brag About?

Fr. Hunwicke on the supposed forward-thinking of Latin Catholics: Women Scientists

Is it possible...

that some Latin bishops, through acquired wisdom, suspected that the (Western) Roman Empire was in the phase of collapse but chose to say nothing because (1) they knew they could not effect change, or (2) thought it wasn't their role to lecture rulers from the pulpit or letters addressed to their churches, or (3) realized through humility that they could be wrong and did not want to use their chair to speak about particular circumstances?

Or it may be, of course, that anything they wrote or said with respect to collapse did not survive or was not recorded.

A Perspective on Communion with the Bishop of Rome

Being Byzantine (Catholic) by Chase Padusniak

But if it is an interepiscopal squabble over the nature of primacy, were the Orthodox justified in protesting Roman claims about the authority of the bishop of pope if they went beyond Tradition, even to the point of breaking communion? While the Melkites have protested against certain ultramontanist interpretations of Vatican I, has anything changed in Roman teaching in the subsequent century and a half, despite the presence of the "Uniates"?

Related:
1054: History, Myth, and the Making of a Schism by Nathan Smolin

Fr. Rutler on Pope Benedict XIV

A Faithful Pope of the Enlightenment by Fr. George W. Rutler

And Roman Catholics Are Still Paying the Price

How the Irish Built Catholic America

Did they adopt a neo-Yankee civic nationalist mentality while resenting the native Anglos? If their attempts to assimilate were not wholly successful because they were rejected as outsiders, did they in turn discriminate against Catholics of other ethnicities, creating the immigrant Church of the 20th ce?

How to Plan a Crusade

Pegasus Books - Google Books

Crusading 101 by Timothy D. Lusch

How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational rabble from Dark Age rubble.

The Old and New Ostpolitik of the Vatican

Asia News: The old and new Ostpolitik of the Holy See (I) di Stefano Caprio*
Part 2

Related:
Dear Chinese bishops, where is the measure of your heart? Joseph*

Sandro Magister: How To Be a "Creative Minority" Today. The Example of the Christians of the First Three Centuries

But does he overstate the difference between the Christians and non-Christians living in the same society? Was secession a possibility for them in the Roman Empire?

Related: Saint Benedict in the 21st Century. But "La Civiltà Cattolica" Condemns Him to the Stake

The Conversion of the Hellenistic World

Early Inculturation

“We know that such frescoes have so far never been seen in any other church.”

Posted by Ancient Faith Radio on Tuesday, January 26, 2016

CS Lewis Society Book Club

C.S. Lewis Society Book of the Bay Area for November:Wed., Nov. 4 and 18: "How the West Won: The Neglected Story of...

Posted by C. S. Lewis Society of California on Friday, October 23, 2015

How good is Stark's The Rise of Christianity?
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