Conscience, the Emperor, and the Pope: The Witness of St. Maximus the Confessor

Posted on June 21, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, July 10th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Adrian J. Walker’s “Conscience, the Emperor, and the Pope: The Witness of St. Maximus the Confessor” from the Winter 2014 (Volume 41.4) issue of Communio entitled Ecclesiam Unam.

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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Posted on May 25, 2015 by exec_admin

Our summer book event will take place on Saturday, June 20th at Blessed Sacrament Church, Kitchener, from 9:00am to lunch at 12:30pm. The book we will study is Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. For our purposes, feel free to read any one of the three editions. The Third Edition is available here. If you don’t obtain a copy beforehand, we suggest that you read the Prologue to the 3rd Edition, which is available for download as an excerpt from the University of Notre Dame Press Web site here.

9:00am Welcome: Fr. Mark Morley (Blessed Sacrament, Kitchener)
9:05am Germán McKenzie (formerly Catholic University of America)
9:35am Stephen Jones (Managing Editor, Conrad Grebel Review)
10:05am Fr. John Redmond (St. Gregory the Great, Cambridge)
10:35am Break
10:45am Peter Erb (formerly Wilfrid Laurier University)
11:15am Dcn. Charles Fernandez (St. John, Dundalk)
11:45pm Norm Klassen (St. Jerome’s University)
12:15pm Open Discussion
12:30pm Lunch

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‘In the Beginning Was the Word’: Mercy as a ‘Reality Illuminated by Reason’

Posted on May 25, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, June12th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing David L. Schindler’s “’In the Beginning Was the Word’: Mercy as a ‘Reality Illuminated by Reason’” from the Winter 2014 (Volume 41.4) issue of Communio entitled Ecclesiam Unam. The PDF can be downloaded from the Communio Web site here.

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‘The Mystery of Mysteries’: On Péguy’s Vision of Hope

Posted on April 16, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, May 8th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Paulo Prosperi’s “’The Mystery of Mysteries’: On Péguy’s Vision of Hope” from the Winter 2014 (Volume 41.4) issue of Communio entitled Ecclesiam Unam.

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On the Sacramental Nature of Health

Posted on March 20, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, April 10th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing José Granados’s “On the Sacramental Nature of Health” from the Fall 2014 (Volume 41.3) issue of Communio entitled Health. The article can be downloaded from the Communio Web site here.

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Cardinal Manning’s Lecture V and Lecture VI

Posted on February 22, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, March 13th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Cardinal Manning’s “Lecture V: The Sovereignty of the Church Derived from its Divine Head” and “Lecture VI: The Sovereignty of God Over the Course of the World” from his lecture series The Fourfold Sovereignty of God [1870-1871].  Peter Erb will be making a presentation and leading the discussion. He is editor of “The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence 1833-1891“.

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The Merciful Gift of Indissolubility

Posted on January 27, 2015 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, February 13th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Nicholas J. Healy’s “The Merciful Gift of Indissolubility” from the Summer 2014 (Volume 41.2) issue of Communio entitled Marriage: Theological and Pastoral Considerations. The article can be downloaded from the Communio Web site here.

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Celebrating St. Thomas Aquinas

Posted on January 15, 2015 by exec_admin

ON CREATION: Dramatic Readings from Summa Theologica Part I, Question XLV
Friday, January 30th, 2015 – 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Board Room, 3rd Floor, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo
Parking: Conrad Grebel, Renison lots, off Westmount Avenue.
Refreshments served.
Information 519-923-0454 Dcn. Charles Fernandes
Fr. Mark Morley mmorley@communiohamiltondiocese.org

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‘If Philosophy Begins In Wonder’: Aquinas, Creation, and Wonder

Posted on December 29, 2014 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, January 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Randall Smith’s “’If Philosophy Begins In Wonder’: Aquinas, Creation, and Wonder”from the Spring 2014 (Volume 41.1) issue of Communio entitled Apologetics. The article can be downloaded from the author’s Web site here.

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‘Faith Is Obvious’: The Apologetics of Creation

Posted on December 1, 2014 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, December 12th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing Mary Taylor’s “’Faith Is Obvious’: The Apologetics of Creation” from the Spring 2014 (Volume 41.1) issue of Communio entitled Apologetics. The article can be downloaded here.

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