Divine Mercy Sunday
Ask for God’s Mercy, which is infinite. He longs for nothing more than to give each and every one of us his mercy.
Something big is happening in Rome…..
There was a meeting of all the curia heads Saturday morning in Rome, 10AM their time. The meeting was unannounced beforehand. I don’t think Pope Benedict called it to wish himself “happy birthday.” Something major is about ready to happen in the next week or two, I think.
11th Annual Call to Holiness Conference
Every year, this event is held in Michigan. This conference has high fidelity to Rome. It’s being shortened so that more people can come this year!
Speakers this year are Archbishop Bruskiewicz, Marcus Grodi, Alice von Hildebrand and more. Bishop John Quinn and Bishop Daniel Flores will be saying the Mass in the morning.
Attention Priests! Una Voce Workshop on How to Say the Latin Mass (for priests only)
Una Voca, an organization faithful to Rome, is offering a workshop in June to teach priests how to say the Latin Mass. Follow this link for more information!
Is this what the Motu Proprio contains?
Fr Z’s blog has a fascinating conversation going on the possible content of the widely-expected Motu Proprio. He proposes that the Motu Proprio will coordinate the calendars of the old and new rites among other things. Go to the link for more information.
By way of recap, there have been several accounts, including even a proported leak racing around Catholic sites on the net, although the leak contains no more than that which has been previously stated by Vatican officials as possible content. The Motu Proprio is said to be complete and waiting only for timing at the discretion of the Holy Father.
And a rumor about publishing houses (which I think is frivolous but funny). I can’t see the OCP printing Latin and holy pictures wholesale, but hey, it’s a money-making business and if their target market changes……… (link in Italian)
Update on von Balthasar’s Authorship in the book “Meditations on the Tarot”
UPDATE on the von Balthasar occult book issue: Checking this reference at Amazon. com brings up this link and von Balthasar is, indeed, cited as the author of the afterward. See Amazon’s editorial review for a description of what’s in the book. This book is NOT a refutation of the Tarot.
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s “Other Books”
Caught this article today about the theologian von Balthasar, hailed by many as a great 20th century theologian. I’m interested in this. I read “Razing the Bastions” for a theology class not long ago and I was completely underwhelmed by it. Obviously, if his works can be considered passable theology (and I’m still out on that), it wasn’t because of *that* book. But I’ll have to do some investigating on this issue before I concur on all the author of the article has to say……
I’m not dismissing it out of hand though, because it has already turned out that at least two other ”premier theologians” of the 20th century have been crackpots. I’m referring to Teilhard Chardin and Bernard Lonergan, both of whom tried to make science into theology and ended up with neither.
