“The Fathers Gave Rome the Primacy”

A. St. Leger Westall, “The Fathers Gave Rome the Primacy”, The Dublin Review, CXXXII (January-April 1903), pp. 101-114.
The famous xxviii. Canon of Chalcedon has been for many centuries a favourite authority among all those who, whether in the East or in England, are anxious to find support in primitive times for their rejection of the Petrine [...]

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Canon 28 redux

I have just begun listening to Bishop Hilarion’s talk at the recent SVS conference. He makes reference to the (in)famous Canon 28 of Chalcedon, and gives the standard Orthodox (and generally non-/anti-Roman) interpretation of it: that it ascribes the origin of Old Rome’s primacy not to the will of Christ or succession from the Apostle [...]

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“Rome, Constantinople and Canterbury”

Ancient Faith Radio has audio from the recent Fellowship of Ss. Alban and Sergius conference “Rome, Constantinople and Canterbury, Mother Churches”, held at St Vladimir’s Seminary, June 4-8, 2008. I have only listened to the first two lectures, by Metropolitan Philip of the Antiochian Archdiocese and Bishop Keith Ackerman of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, [...]

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Polemicism and Truth

“Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learnt what truth is really like; once he has truly learnt it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.” – Saint Isaac the Syrian
[Kephalaia IV.77; The Wisdom of Saint Isaac the Syrian, [...]

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