Disputation on the 1970 Missal (Part 2) – Dr Robert Fastiggi
The Missal of Paul VI is both valid and licit: a response to Dr John Lamont In his essay entitled “Is the Mass of Paul VI licit?” Dr John Lamont argues that the Mass of Paul VI – which for the sake of simplicity we can call the Novus Ordo – is valid but illicit. […]
Disputation on the 1970 Missal (Part 1) – Dr John Lamont
Is the Mass of Paul VI licit? This paper will address an important but somewhat neglected question; that of the liceity of the new order of the Mass promulgated by Paul VI in 1969 to replace the former Roman Missal, and commonly referred to as the Novus Ordo. This is of course a different question […]
An Integralist Reading of Apocalypse XI:1-10
by Fr Thomas Crean O.P. I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the earth. Who are these two witnesses? Many Catholics down the centuries have assumed […]
The laity used to help choose bishops. It’s a tradition worth resurrecting
by Alan Fimister 17 January, 2019 But for such a system to work, the bishops also need to take up their duties “The Church is not a democracy,” we are often told. That’s sort of true, but it isn’t meant to be a vast centrally-controlled bureaucracy either. As it happens, the Church used to have a […]
Ecumenical Councils Podcasts
A series of jovial guides to the twenty-one Ecumenical Councils. Introduction: Nicaea and Constantinople I Ephesus and Chalcedon Constantinople II Constantinople III Nicaea II Constantinople IV Lateran I Lateran II to IV Lyons I – II Vienne Constance Lateran V Trent Vatican I Vatican II
On a book review in ‘Commonweal’
The American journal Commonweal has recently published a book review of Thomas Crean’s and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: a manual of political philosophy. The book review misrepresents the book in certain ways and criticises it in others. The present article will explain some of the misrepresentations and analyse the criticisms. The most serious misrepresentation lies in […]
Dr. John Joy – Assent Owed to Non-Infallible Teachings of the Magisterium
“Church and State: Then and Now”
A discussion the Director had with Fr Robert McTeigue S.J. on The Station of the Cross Catholic Radio Network about “Church and State: Then and Now”.
NO ABIDING CITY – THE CHALLENGE OF ST AUGUSTINE
Dr Alan Fimister The following paper was given on 17 May 2019 at the Rome Life Forum On the City of God Against the Pagans was written in response to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. It is hard to grasp the scale of the catastrophe represented by this event. A century earlier […]
Integralism and the Infallibility of Quanta cura:
A Reply to Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller By John P. Joy In a recent article at Public Discourse, Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller offered a cordial critique of some arguments I had made here at the Dialogos Institute, in which I defended the infallibility of the condemnations of modern errors contained […]