by Timothy Flanders | May 29, 2019 | Current crisis
See my full review at Amazon here. Do yourself a favor and read this book. It is very readable and has lots of information to consider in the current debate about the crisis. See my timeline for more information. I address critics of this work here. Every reasonable...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | Current crisis, Practical, Spiritual
By Timothy S. Flanders This article is also available in French. You may be struggling in this crisis. You may be scandalized by the evil priests, or by the Holy Father himself. You may just be asking the question: what do we do? (Acts. ii. 37). Here are five things...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | Current crisis
I. There is legitimate disagreement among Catholics about Pope Francis II. Religious submission takes for its object fallible authority III. Insofar as Pope Francis manifestly denies the faith, I will resist him IV. Insofar as Pope Francis confesses the faith, I...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | Current crisis, Spiritual
St. Thomas defines the vice of curiosity as “when a man is withdrawn by a less profitable study from a study that is an obligation incumbent on him” (ST II-II q167 a1). Fr. Ripperger defines it as “Inordinate desire for useless or profane knowledge.” The opposite vice...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | Greek schism
The Council of Florence is a nebulous thing. It took place at the climax of two historical epochs—the western struggle through schism and civil war and the eastern struggle through civil war and Turkish invasions. The divisions that these epochs led to—the western...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | The Protestant Heresies
There are few people in the history so studied as Martin Luther. He is certainly a complex figure, and his legacy is as divisive as it is broad. Still, a sympathetic look at a few objective facts about his life give us a picture of a sincere Christian with a troubled...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | The Protestant Heresies
Christian unity requires charity through humility. Humility means to bind up one’s identity with another; to say “I am because of you. I need you.” This must first be directed toward God, then to one’s own parents and one’s neighbor. Thus to “Love the Lord thy God...
by Timothy Flanders | May 28, 2019 | The Protestant Heresies
Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli were only six months apart in age, and their separate spheres of Protestantism were largely independent of one another, although Ulrich could be said to have gotten many ideas from Martin. To a substantial degree, these two Protestant...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. Since 1964 and before, the near-longest division in the history of the Church—between the Chalcedonian Orthodox and the Miaphysites, dated from c. 500—has had promising developments. These...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
This post was originally published here where the original comments are retained. It was written in 2012 when I was Eastern Orthodox, but before I had come to the conclusion that I was in schism (and there are other views expressed I may no longer hold). For an...
by Timothy Flanders | May 27, 2019 | Greek schism
The Procession of the All-Holy Spirit – Again and Again on Bended Knee If any man studies the Greek schism, it is inevitable that the wearying question of the Filioque will need to be addressed. I always dread this, not because of its divisive nature per se, but...
by Timothy Flanders | May 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
St. Alphonsus: ON THE CONDITIONS OF PRAYER. FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. “Ask, and ye shall receive.” JOHN xvi. 24. IN the thirty-ninth Sermon I shall show the strict necessity of prayer, and its infallible efficacy to obtain for us all the graces which can...
