Canon in honour of Saint Thomas Aquinas by John Plousiadenos (1429 – 1500)
Longing to praise the famous teacher of theology, I approach You, O Christ, as one of infirm utterance. Inspire me with wise speech so that I may worthily adorn him by songs and harmonious melodies. As a star from the West he illumined the Church of Christ: The musical swan and subtle teacher, Thomas, the […]
The Theological Note of Integralism
The Teaching of Quanta cura is Definitive: A Reply to Robert T. Miller By Dr. John P. Joy In his recent article on “Integralism and Catholic Doctrine” (here at Public Discourse), Robert T. Miller argues against the integralist ideal of a Catholic confessional state, understood as one in which the state would “officially endorse […]
The Spectre of the Byzantine by Derya Little
Dr Derya Little is a Turk and an American Citizen. Raised in Islam she embraced atheism as an adolescent but was converted to Christianity by an evangelical from the US while a student in Ankara. Later she came to see that the Gospel could only be defended from the standpoint of Catholicism and was received […]
THOMAS LATINUS – THOMAS GRAECUS
Thomas Aquinas and his Reception in Byzantium International Conference National Library of Greece, Books Tower, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Athens 15–16 December 2017 Co-organizers: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS THE HELLENIC INSTITUTE, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Dignitatis Humane Colloquium: Dialogos Institute Collection Volume I
This book contains the papers given at a historic conference on religious liberty that took place in 2015 in Norcia, Italy, in the presence of Cardinal Raymond Burke, under the auspices of the Dialogos Institute. 8 Catholic scholars from around the world met to discuss this most controversial of theological questions. Their papers focus on […]
Limbo
This summer at the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury in Ramsgate, Kent the Dialogos Institute held its second Colloquium on the doctrine of Limbo. Discussion was lively and extremely well informed. The proceedings will be published some time in 2018. In anticipation of the Colloquium the Director gave an interview to Diane Montagna […]
Capital Punishment and the Infallibility of the Church – John P. Joy
In a two-part essay at Public Discourse (here and here), E. Christian Brugger has responded to Edward Feser and Joseph M. Bassette’s new book on capital punishment (By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment). Feser and Bessette argue that the Church’s traditional teaching on the moral permissibility of the […]
Religious Liberty
The Colloquium on Dignitatis Humanae held in Norcia over All Saints 2015 presented all the main orthodox views on the document. By orthodox I mean that no one accepted that an authoritative and binding document of the Church’s magisterium could overthrow the teaching of a previous document of the same or a higher authority. There […]