Wednesday, 07 January

18:00

Social Media Hypocricy [Spirit of Teuchtar II]

Pope Francis is absolutely correct to refer to the "terrorism of gossip".  It isn't the first time he has correctly highlighted the gravity of some of our social interaction which we too easily take for granted such as gossiping or judging our neighbour.

Our social interaction often anticipates a conversational style which is not far away from fitting both these descriptions. Too often it fits exactly. These days social media, whilst having its merits, is often the root cause of much of this "terrorism".

Some of our Catholic social media commentary isn't exactly edifying either. It can be down right nasty.

It has made me wonder what benefit these media actually have for me? I feel the best use I can have for them at the moment is to give them up and return to them during Lent as a penance! Although forty days of enforced using Facebook and Twitter again does seem a rather extreme!

Give me a cilice any day!

Time for a break, at least a revaluation.

(Apart from the fact I am going to have to share this post on Twitter.) 

16:55

John Lamont on anti-Thomism [Commentary - thomistica]

John Lamont has a provocative piece at Rorate Caeli on the anti-Thomism of the nouvelle théologie. It is somewhat geared toward a popular audience but I believe Thomists, Aquinas scholars, and historians of 20th century Catholic theology (among others) will find it interesting. Lamont returns to some of the themes that he dealt with in a 2008 article he wrote for The Thomist entitled "Determining the Content and Degree of Authority of Church Teachings."

There are three points in particular that Lamont addresses (both in The Thomist article and in the new piece) that I think deserve wider discussion: (1) the truth/falsity of the theses of the "neomodernism" of the nouvelle théologie; (2) the validity (or lack thereof) of the nouvel théologiens' critique of Thomism; (3) the positive/negative influence of the nouvelle théologie on contemporary Catholic thought. All three, of course, require not only historical but also speculative consideration.

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