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Communion for the remarried: Swiss clergy and laity disobey, and head of German bishops calls for change in discipline

Forty priests and pastoral ministers from the Diocese of St. Gall, Switzerland, have issued a statement that they will continue to offer communion to the divorced and remarried.

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New Cathedral for the Saskatoon Diocese

The Diocese of Saskatoon has a new cathedral, and Salt and Light TV has coverage of the dedication ceremony.

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Dialogue between old and new liturgical movements

“So how can the old and the new come together with the humility and magnanimity that are the antidotes to pride?.” – Fr. Christopher Jamison, OSB

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CARA’s Parish Data & the New Evangelization: A Social Network Approach

by Jack Rakosky
“The good news is that social networks spread and maintain culture; the bad news is we can no longer rely on Catholic family and ethnic social networks to grow and maintain themselves. The parish today has to build and strengthen social networks of families, friends and small groups.”

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O Lord, who are the author of ever-living life…

… bless, recognize, and approve these words, these clauses, these holy and undefiled enunciations …

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What Did Last Thursday’s Collect Mean?

“I heard from about a dozen priests by noontime, asking, What the hell did today’s Collect mean?” – Xavier Rindfleisch

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The Rite for the Blessing of a Child in the Womb – some questions

Does this rite assume that all births will be to healthy children? Does the birth of a child that is not healthy signify some flaw in our “rebirth one day”?

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Blessed Among Us: Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin was born in the ancient Languedoc region of southern France. One of twenty-three children in his peasant family, he was educated by the Christian Brothers and breathed in the atmosphere of Catholic populism before emigrating to North America in 1909. For twenty years he tramped through America, performing various kinds of manual labor. All the while he was devising an intellectual synthesis in the area of Catholic social philosophy.

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Excerpt from Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology and giveaway winners

Read Chapter 1 of Thomas Rausch, SJ’s new book Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination.
Stay tuned for future giveaways from Liturgical Press and Pray Tell.

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Catholic Church Not for Respectable People? – I’m Not Leaving!

“Too many bishops seem in the grip of dark suspicions that our culture is moving at breakneck speed toward a demonic end. Pope John XXIII, by contrast, was more optimistic about the signs of the times.” – E.J. Dionne

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New and Revised Mass Settings: Your Reactions?

It’s been eight months since new and revised Mass settings have come into use. How is it going?

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