The Dove
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The Best History of the Roman Mass
I just read Uwe Michael Lang’s 2022 book The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform for the second time (for a course I am teaching on liturgy). I think Lang’s book is the best history of the Roman Mass. Lang combines remarkable learning with stucture and clarity in exposition. His book should… Continue reading
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The New Natural Law Theory
A paper of mine on the New Natural Law Theory of Germain Grizez, et al. has been posted at The Josias. It’s an English version of a paper that has just been published in Spanish in a volume edited by the great Catholic jurist Miguel Ayuso. Continue reading
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Latin Scholastic Mystagogy
A story one sometimes hears from clerics who attended liberal seminaries in the 1970s is that, unlike the mystagogues of the East, the scholastics of the Latin West did not appreciate the riches of the liturgy. Obsessed as they were with the essential matter and form of the Sacraments, and the juridical and requirements for… Continue reading
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Fastidium doctrinae
Palladius said, ‘The soul which is being trained according to the will of Christ should either be earnest in learning what it does not know, or should publicly teach what it does know. If it wants to do neither, though it could, it is mad. The first step on the road away from God is… Continue reading
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Caesarius of Arles on the Church as the Virtuous Woman in Proverbs 31
The Catholic Church was not only preached after the coming of our Lord and Savior, beloved brethren, but from the beginning of the world, it was designated by many figures and rather hidden mysteries. Indeed, in holy Abel the Catholic Church existed, in Noe, in Abraham, in Isaac, in Jacob, and in the other saintly… Continue reading