Day: December 6, 2010
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What happens after the 2010 translation?
by Fr. Alan Griffiths “Whenever we begin using the 2010 version, there seems to be emerging a view that eventually it will have to be substantially revised.”
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An Advent Pastoral Letter
Recently, Bishop John Wester published his first pastoral letter to the diocese of Salt Lake City. His letter invites the faithful of the diocese to celebrate/observe the season by slowing down and waiting to put up Christmas decorations. Here’s the text in Spanish.
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Desire for Old Mass or not? Why?
The greatest interest and the most requests for the old Mass are found in Europe, in the United States of America, and also in Australia. Much less in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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Secularism, Fundamentalism, or Catholicism? The USA in 2043!
Some surprising answers from a sophisticated demographic model based upon fertility, migration, religious transmission and religious switching.
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It’s not Christmas yet!
Catholics shouldn’t have early parties in their homes or churches, light up their trees or decorate their schools with more than simple wreaths and boughs of green.
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“We Are Yearning For the Season”
The hymn text I’ve chosen for the second week of Advent, Ruth Duck’s hymn “We Are Yearning For the Season,” could actually be used throughout the season and even into Christmastide.