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Francis on Isaiah 7:9 in Greek and Hebrew
I thought BLT readers might be interested in this excerpt from Pope Francis’ first encyclical letter, Lumen Fidei (English title On Faith), released yesterday. This is paragraph 23, the first paragraph...
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Some Thoughts on Some Things Pope Francis has Said
…and on things other people have said in response. I’ve been horribly busy over the past few months, but I’ve managed to write a few pope-centric posts at Gaudete Theology that might be of interest to...
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Are you Catholic? Did you know…? : a new blog project
I’ve started a new blog project, devoted to the little things that every Catholic should know, but often don’t. Every week or so I’ll put up a brief post about one of those little things, along with a...
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Questionnaire for the Extraordinary Synod on the Family: A Close Read
Over at Gaudete Theology, I’ve done a fairly close read of the questionnaire that is part of the Preparatory Document for the Extraordinary Synod on the Family that Pope Francis has called for October...
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A Music Theologian Engages with Pope Francis’ Favorite Music: An Interview...
In December I finally got around to reading the papal interview, and I was very intrigued by the section in which he talked about his favorite music. I didn’t know the pieces he mentioned, though, and...
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Whose History? Catholics, Protestants, and waterboarding as baptism
In Kurk’s discussion of Sarah Palin’s equation of baptism with water torture, he pointed out that there were medieval precedents in ecclesial discourse for such juxtapositions and even equivalences. I...
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Watching Suor Cristina Dance
I’ve read that in the early and medieval church, describing a woman as a virgin wasn’t so much about the state of her hymen as her autonomous personhood. Especially in a patriarchy, for a woman to be...
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Debts or Trespasses? And Other Riffs on the Lord’s Prayer
Crossposted from Gaudete Theology, as I expect and hope that the commentariat and my cobloggers here may take up rather different points in their responses. :) Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed...
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Painted Screens & Painted Stations: A Secular and Sacred Art Report
Crossposted from Gaudete Theology Last Sunday afternoon, I spent a couple hours at the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, one of the two interfaith centers in which my parish has a presence. The building...
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The Purpose of Marriage: Gen 1 or Gen 2?
The bible begins with two creation stories, and each has its own purpose. Gen 1 tells the story of how all creation came to be, with the creation of humanity, male and female, as the culmination of...
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May the Angels Lead Her Into Paradise: Remembering Ann O.
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Ann Olivier from a lovely eulogy at Commonweal. Although we had fallen out of touch, Ann was a very significant influence during my years of self-directed...
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Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy
(A close read of a traditional Catholic prayer, cross posted from Gaudete Theology) In honor of this past tuesday’s feast of the Immaculate Conception, which opens the Jubilee Year of Mercy, I thought...
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Wisdom Commentary (Catholic) from Liturgical Press
Liturgical Press, a prestigious Catholic publisher, has announced a new scholarly commentary series on the Catholic Bible: The Wisdom Commentary. According to the publisher, the series is … A...
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Gender and religion
The Pew Research Center yesterday released a new report on gender and religious participation. It found that in many countries in the world, and especially among Christians, there is a wide gender...
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“Pope gives God two weeks’ notice”
Here is how the New York Post covered Benedict’s announcement. Filed under: Catholicism, Humor Tagged: Benedict XVI, New York Post
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NOT translating Julian of Norwich
If you had the choice between Julian of Norwich’s mystical visions directly from her – or from a long series of non-mystic intermediaries who interpreted her – which would you prefer? I want to read...
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Unflattering translations
My co-blogger J. K. Gayle and I have been having a conversation about how Julian of Norwich has been treated by different contemporary translations. Kurk has well-thought out and interesting praise...
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Forthcoming Book on Translating Finnegans Wake
With the recent publicity over the Finnegans Wake translations recently into Polish and Chinese (first third of book only) being added to the existing translations in Dutch, French, German, Italian,...
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Catholic ESV Lectionary on hold
I previously reported on International Commission for the Preparation of an English-language Lectionary (ICPEL) to prepare a new lectionary (for use outside North America) based on the ESV translation....
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The Makings of a Racist, Sexist, Colonialist
White supremacy reigned and the other side of white supremacy is black inferiority. We were taught, as reasonably well bred white Southerners, to behave decently, but the whole racial etiquette that...
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