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Showing posts with label St. Augustine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Augustine. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
One of These Three Does Not Belong with the Others
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Imaginative Conservative: On the Place of Augustine in Political Philosophy: A Second Look at Some Augustinian Literature by James V. Schall, S. J.
Friday, November 02, 2012
Restless Movie to be Shown in Campbell Next Week
Restless is being shown at Cinelux Theater in Campbell on Nov. 7 (4 P.M.), Nov. 8 (7 P.M.), and Nov. 10 (9 A.M.). Tickets are $10 - advance sales only, no tickets will be sold at the door. To purchase tickets call Barry or Charlotte LeMay at (408) 379-6518.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
A Good Man for the USCCB
But is one man enough to tackle the following? The USCCB'S Department for Justice, Peace, and Human Development and Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
Jonathan Reyes, the Bishops’ New Man in D.C.
Denver Catholic Charities, Social Ministries Director Named Head Of USCCB Justice, Peace, Human Development Department
Pro-life leaders laud new head of U.S. bishops’ peace and justice department
Patheos
America Magazine
Zenit
"National" Catholic programs administered by the USCCB, just like the program he founded, Christ in the City. (An alternative to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps?)
The bishops may be trying to clean house, which thethe CCHD especially needs, but should they reconsider their approach? It could be argued that one office to cover all these United States is necessary so long as there are factors and agents that affect them all and cannot be effectively addressed through state legislation alone. But an unwieldy bureaucracy cannot replace the needed renewal of the local Catholic churches and their parish communities, which would be better able to perform corporal works of mercy in accordance with the order of charity while evangelizing at the same time. (Moreover, the local Churches need to respect the local culture [and peoples], rather than attempting to replace it with some "natural law" vision of what it should be.)
How can one trust someone who is paid to be "nice"? Is he truly kind or is he merely acting in order to get the paycheck?
Rather than ameliorating problems, such programs, if they are misguided in their principles, may make them worse, reinforcing erroneous beliefs about political communities (especially the question of scale).
On John Carr, Dr. Reyes's predecessor: Ending the USCCB’s Path to Progressive Politics?
Some recent news for the Augustine Institute, which Dr. Reyes helped found.
Augustine Institute Opens New Campus
Augustine Institute Expands Evangelization Effort with New Campus
Bishop Aquila Finds an Ally for Changing the Order of the Sacraments
Whatever else he may think or say, Archbishop Samuel Aquila's writing on restoring reception of the sacrament of confirmation as the second sacrament to be received by the newly initiated deserves a wider audience.
Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments
Related:
From 2007, The New, Lay Face of Missionaries
'We have no king but Caesar:' Some thoughts on Catholic faith and public life
By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. *
Fr. Rutler, Christ in the City
Fr. Fosolm, TEARS, THE WOOD OF THE CROSS, THE WORD, AND THE EUCHARIST
Jonathan Reyes, the Bishops’ New Man in D.C.
Denver Catholic Charities, Social Ministries Director Named Head Of USCCB Justice, Peace, Human Development Department
Pro-life leaders laud new head of U.S. bishops’ peace and justice department
Patheos
America Magazine
Zenit
"National" Catholic programs administered by the USCCB, just like the program he founded, Christ in the City. (An alternative to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps?)
The bishops may be trying to clean house, which thethe CCHD especially needs, but should they reconsider their approach? It could be argued that one office to cover all these United States is necessary so long as there are factors and agents that affect them all and cannot be effectively addressed through state legislation alone. But an unwieldy bureaucracy cannot replace the needed renewal of the local Catholic churches and their parish communities, which would be better able to perform corporal works of mercy in accordance with the order of charity while evangelizing at the same time. (Moreover, the local Churches need to respect the local culture [and peoples], rather than attempting to replace it with some "natural law" vision of what it should be.)
How can one trust someone who is paid to be "nice"? Is he truly kind or is he merely acting in order to get the paycheck?
Rather than ameliorating problems, such programs, if they are misguided in their principles, may make them worse, reinforcing erroneous beliefs about political communities (especially the question of scale).
On John Carr, Dr. Reyes's predecessor: Ending the USCCB’s Path to Progressive Politics?
Some recent news for the Augustine Institute, which Dr. Reyes helped found.
Augustine Institute Opens New Campus
Augustine Institute Expands Evangelization Effort with New Campus
Bishop Aquila Finds an Ally for Changing the Order of the Sacraments
Whatever else he may think or say, Archbishop Samuel Aquila's writing on restoring reception of the sacrament of confirmation as the second sacrament to be received by the newly initiated deserves a wider audience.
Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments
Related:
From 2007, The New, Lay Face of Missionaries
'We have no king but Caesar:' Some thoughts on Catholic faith and public life
By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. *
Fr. Rutler, Christ in the City
Fr. Fosolm, TEARS, THE WOOD OF THE CROSS, THE WORD, AND THE EUCHARIST
Friday, August 24, 2012
Any extended edition in the works?
Cut from 200 minutes to 128. Or will we have to look for the original Italian version on DVD?
NCReg: Bringing St. Augustine to the Big Screen
An Interview with Ignatius Press' Tony Ryan
(via Insight Scoop)
Edit. The extended trailer:
NCReg: Bringing St. Augustine to the Big Screen
An Interview with Ignatius Press' Tony Ryan
(via Insight Scoop)
Edit. The extended trailer:
Friday, July 20, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Augustinian Localism?
Augustinian Reflections on Love and Localism by A.J. DeBonis
I still need to read through City of God all the way through...
I still need to read through City of God all the way through...
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Ignatius Press announces forthcoming release of the film, "Restless Heart"
Another dubbed foreign movie. Accurate with respect to the details and costumes? I have doubts about Augustine's mitre.
Another dubbed foreign movie. Accurate with respect to the details and costumes? I have doubts about Augustine's mitre.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
John Médaille, St. Augustine on the Liberal State
I think the modern liberal state is able to maintain a mixed constitution because of its size -- it is both an oligarchy and a democracy, two deviant regimes in Aristotle's classification. Both the wealthy and the masses must be satisfied, and it is a delicate balance which must be maintained.
It seems to me that this is a perfect description of the modern liberal state and its conception of law and economics. The idea of virtue in general, and the specific virtue of justice in particular, have been exiled from our notions of politics, law, and economics. But a political order divorced from justice can only be about power; a legal order divorced from justice is merely a contradiction; an economic order divorced from justice is always on the verge of collapse (as ours is.)
I think the modern liberal state is able to maintain a mixed constitution because of its size -- it is both an oligarchy and a democracy, two deviant regimes in Aristotle's classification. Both the wealthy and the masses must be satisfied, and it is a delicate balance which must be maintained.
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