Be as Wise as...

"Bold Proposal" to Screw European Taxpayers Again

Fr. Fessio is a reader of Mish; does he help chart the course for Ignatius Press accordingly?

Interview with Fr. Fessio

Post by Ignatius Press.

More Reflections on Benedict XVI

NLM: Dom Alcuin Reid: "Farewell to a Gentle Liturgical Reformer" (I can't find the original at The Catholic Herald)

Fr. Fessio's Pope Benedict
CWR exclusive: Fr. Fessio on Pope Benedict’s resignation

The Pope and the Philistines by Tracey Rowland

Related: How, during the lifetime of a pope, can his successor gain the authority he needs? We are in a time of uncertainty: but we are also in God’s hands by William Oddie

Habebimus Papam Novum.

The big news of the day, for Catholics. The Sarge called me at 3 in the morning to inform me what was going on, so I already knew about it when I was awoken 2 hours later by someone else regarding the same piece of news.





Pope announces he will be stepping down citing lack of strength
Vatican Radio
Sandro Magister
Catholic World Report
Catholic News Agency
CNN
NYT
Pope's Resignation Stuns Native Germany

Statement of the U.S. Anglican Ordinariate
UK Ordinariate
Metropolitan Hilarion
TAC
CUA
What was the cardinals' reaction to the Pope's announcement?
What will the Pope do when he is no longer Pope?

Zenit:
Pope Benedict XVI Announces Resignation
US Bishops Respond
UK Bishops Respond
Cardinal Angelo Sodano's Statement After Pope Announces Resignation
Cardinal Sodano: "We Are Closer to You Than Ever"
Pope's Announcement Seen as Sign of Freedom, Wisdom
Who Will Vote for the Next Pope
Vatican spokesman: Pope Benedict will not participate in the conclave to elect his successor
About.com

Some Commentary and Blog Posts:



Scott Richert
Tom Piatak
Stephen Herreid
Patrick Buchanan, Benedict's Farewell, and Christianity's?
William Fahey
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Vox
Fr. Z (more)
Pope Benedict’s Resignation in Historical Context by Donald S. Prudlo (interview with Vatican Radio)
Daniel McCarthy
Rorate Caeli
Fr. Dwight Longenecker

From 2010: Pope Benedict XVI's new devotion to Pope St Celestine V

'Pride of Place': Gregorian Chant

(via Chant Cafe)

Not in the Earl of Oxford camp

Something from Insight Scoop related to the trailer I posted for Anonymous yesterday: Fr. Fessio and Joseph Pearce discuss who was really William Shakespeare.


Would I consider viewing the movie in the theaters? I'd have to watch the trailer again... I have to find those movie tickets. Fr. Z's thoughts on the movie and trailer.

Maundy Thursday in Palo Alto

Fr. Fessio, SJ was in Palo Alto tonight to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass. Sometime last year there was a priest celebrating Mass who resembled Fr. Fessio, but at the time I didn't think it was him since his voice didn't sound like Fr. Fessio's. I thought he was another Dominican. However, both that priest and Fr. Fessio celebrated Mass ad orientem, so I am left wondering if it was Fr. Fessio indeed that time.

My mother remarked that Fr. Fessio looked; she had seen him before, over at USF. (My sister had been in the St. Ignatius Institute when it was altered.) His homily included a discussion of what Joseph Ratzinger writes in the second volume of Jesus of Nazareth on the question of whether the Holy Thursday meal was a passover meal, something that I heard discussed on Catholic Answers recently. He also mentioned what Joseph Ratzinger writes about expiation/atonement in the book -- I'll have to read that part carefully.

Professor KM again sang Ps. 22 during the stripping of the altar; her voice is very beautiful... Professor M. was asking men before the Mass if they would like to have their feet washed. I declined last year because I was rather uncomfortable with going up. This year my toe (the one that I cut and had to get sutured) has some sores (lesion?) so I couldn't go up, even if I wanted to...

Insight Scoop: Watch the video of Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. on "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo"...

Fr. Fessio

Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. on Pope Benedict XVI and Ignatius Press



He was also on Catholic Answers Live last Tuesday (RA, MP3).

Rome Reports: Ignatius Press founder talks about Light of the World

Insight Scoop: Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., on the air twice this Wednesday

Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder of Ignatius Press, will be a guest on two radio programs this Wednesday, August 4th.

He will be on the "Son Rise Morning Show" at 8:50 a.m. EST, to discuss the Ignatius-Angelicum Liberal Studies Program with host Brian Patrick. The show can be heard via Sacred Heart Radio, EWTN Affiliates, and Sirius/XM.

At 4:20 p.m. EST he will be on Kresta in the Afternoon on Ave Maria Radio to talk about the second "Jesus of Nazareth" book by Pope Benedict XVI, which will be published by Ignatius Press next spring.

Insight Scoop: "Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio is back in the captain’s chair and launching another ship."

The post links to a promotion at Ignatius Press of the new academic program and a NCRegister article.

After the failure of Campion College, and the end of his administrative duties at Ave Maria University, Fr. Fessio is starting a new Catholic distance-learning program. While it addresses the rising costs of a college education, which are associated with the higher-ed bubble, is it able to market itself as a necessity for Catholic young adults? Who is adapting to a post-Carbon world? (The same sort of criticisms could be levelled at MIT's offering of videos of lectures and such.)