Month: June 2011
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Common Words, Common Song, Common Prayer
Soon enough, English-speaking Roman Catholics will discover the (very) mixed blessing of their new translation. The rest of us stand to lose not only the experience of sharing with them common texts, but also the ongoing outgrowth of musical fruits engendered by those texts.
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Overhauling First Communion?
The Irish Jesuit social justice campaigner, Fr. Peter McVerry, has called on schools and churches to work together to radically overhaul the manner in which First Communions are conducted.
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Baptism agreement: UCC, Presbyterians, Reformed, Roman Catholics
The US Catholic bishops voted 204-11 last fall to approve the agreement. The Presbyterian Church-USA has also ratified the agreement. The Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church are scheduled to consider the agreement at their respective national gatherings this summer. Delegates to the UCC’s 28th General Synod in Tampa will deliberate and…
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Canadian new Mass settings
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is publishing three new Mass settings of the revised English text, all usable with keyboard or guitar, along with the ICEL chants.
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Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders
by Jack Rakosky
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Cardinal Policarpo: No theological reasons against women’s ordination
The patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal says there will be women priests when God wills it.
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Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist — A question for PrayTell Bloggers
My concern is with how we, as participants on a liturgical blog, mark or occlude a foundational feature of our liturgical tradition, namley how it spells time and rhythm in our lives, including our lives in the contemporary blogosphere. I would welcome some thoughts on that.
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Translation cautions from Archbishop of Mainz
One must confess the poverty of our language, its inability to suffice the original writers…
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Liturgy and Church Reform?
by Pádraig McCarthy “The response from the Executive Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference to the Association of Catholic Priests was offered as a response to the the Association. Yet it does not address any of the genuine concerns which were put to them.”