Douglas Knight

That Pope John Paul II was profoundly formed by and faithful to the general pastoral purpose and style of Gaudium et Spes throughout his pontificate is easy to show. He not only made constant reference to Gaudium et Spes, 22 and 24, referring to the former as encapsulating the motif of his pontificate, his encyclical, [...]

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Orthodoxwiki tells us about Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and Primate of Greece who died this week.
Wikipedia gives plenty of detail on the public impact Christodoulos made.
Christodoulos opposed the decision to remove the ‘Religion’ field from national ID cards, seeing as part of a wider plan to marginalise the Church from Greek [...]

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A conference on the theology of John Owen
Westminster College
Cambridge, UK
19–22 August 2008

An increasing number of scholars from a wide range of disciplines are finding the thought of John Owen to be a fertile field for study. Nine of them will be presenting papers on his work at Westminster College, home to the original copy [...]

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Long since the Moscow Patriarchate defrocked Father Gleb Yakunin, a Moscow priest who, as an elected deputy in 1990, had privileged access to the KGB archives and discovered that the collaboration between some bishops and the state security agencies had been worse than even he had imagined. The Church has never properly investigated this, clearly [...]

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In the man Jesus Christ however there was no movement of sense that was not controlled by reason; and even his natural bodily activities were in a sense voluntary, inasmuch as that he willed that his flesh should do and suffer according to its own proper nature. So there is even greater unity of activity [...]

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Today is the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul and also the feast of Saint Gregory Nazianzus
At his birth we duly kept Festival, both I, the leader of the Feast, and you, and all that is in the world and above the world. With the Star we ran, and with the Magi we worshipped, [...]

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Every Christian doctrine is an exemplification of the Christian doctrine of God. The Christian confession of God and that God is for us, requires an account of the generous provision of God, which is what providence is, and it requires all the other doctrines that make our talk about providence meaningful. The Christian doctrine of [...]

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Catholic Identity in the American Public Square
When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from art and music to sports and schools. But since this is an election year, I want to apply the idea of Catholic witness specifically to our public life as citizens. Here [...]

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This is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2008
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an expression of the ecumenical movement – a worldwide movement among Christians to heal the divisions within the Church; to promote dialogues among churches and Christian communities; and to encourage Christians everywhere to better understand and reflect the [...]

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6.9.2 The Church needs children present in its worship, as patterns of discipleship, as reminders that we come into the presence of God not through our own deserving, but because we are creatures of God’s creation. But children also need to be present in worship because it is the locus of Christian formation. Worship is [...]

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No immersion in the waters of the Jordan River this year for Orthodox believers who gathered on its shores to celebrate the Feast Day of the Baptism of Jesus. They were prevented by Israeli security forces.
Several thousands of pilgrims were able never the less to take part in a prayer service celebrated by the Greek [...]

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Professor Janet E. Smith
Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Contraception: Why Not?
Thursday 6th March Westminster Cathedral Hall London 7-9pm.

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In the not so distant past, I attended a Mass. It was a typical parish Mass. There was a choir in the back, there were Eucharistic ministers, there were lay lectors, there were altar servers. There was laity galore.
But the impression I took away with me – after an hour and a half – was [...]

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Dr Nazir-Ali does not simply blame the Saudis, or other foreign governments who might have been funding militant Islam in the mosques of Great Britain, for the rise in Muslim chauvinism in this country. He blames the British people themselves, arguing that there has been a catastrophic collapse in Christian-based morality and spirituality in this [...]

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Congratulations to Dr Mihail Neamtu, whose ‘The Nicene Christ and Desert Eschatology‘ has been accepted by the University of London for the degree of PhD.
Already a fellow of New Europe College in Bucharest, Mihail will soon be visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame. And did you know that he has his own [...]

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The Maryvale Institute – our International Catholic College for Catechesis, Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education at Birmingham shows more energy than any other Catholic institution in the UK than I am aware of. Maryvale wants to see ‘the proclamation of the Catholic faith in its fullness and integrity‘. In the UK, this sounds like a [...]

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Does the Harvard-educated manager of cultures function too much as a Nietzschean Übermensch, operating upon the raw material of humanity from the supposed heights of critical understanding rather than leading from within the ranks? Will a person in a position of power who “reads” his fellow man, rather than listening to what he actually says, [...]

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The Providence conference at Aberdeen was just as wonderful as anticipated. Though there were seventeen speakers, it was a comparatively small affair, and thanks to Francesca Murphy’s amazing powers of organisation and hospitality it was all most relaxed and convivial. Champions of wildly contrasting approaches chuntered happily away at every interval and supper.
Trouble is, [...]

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Chair in Theology, Ministry and Education at King’s College London
The Dept of Education and Professional Studies (DEPS) invites applications from scholars to join one of its most successful and expanding research cohorts – the Centre for Theology Religion and Culture. (CTRC).
Founded by Professor Andrew Walker in 1995 CTRC is a research and teaching centre [...]

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Society for the Study of Theology
Theology and Politics – 2008 conference

St John’s College, Durham
31 March – 3 April 2008
Oliver O’Donovan
John Milbank
Charles Mathewes (A Theology of Public Life and Evil and the Augustinian Tradition)
and there’s the Spring Harvest Christian Eschatology and Contemporary Culture day conference
Saturday 26th January Kings College London

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