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Month: October 2011

  • What Mass setting on roll-out Sunday?

    Michael Silhavy continues to report on Mass settings in parishes of Minneapolis-Saint Paul archdiocese on the First Sunday of Advent.

  • The missal and the power structure that produced it

    The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland pointed out at their annual general meeting that the new Missal has been introduced with little or no consultation. They argue that a small conservative group within the Vatican has forced this new translation on us.

  • Motivational Poster

    It’s not quite catechetical, but it captures something of the atmosphere of positive energy that surrounds the implementation of the new translation.

  • Sanity on the Cup from Archbishop Schnurr

    “I was informed by the USCCB that it is not a matter of the indult expiring. Rather the indult has been supplanted by The General Instruction of the Roman Missal.”

  • Poorly worded: Can we have a Mass that speaks to real people?

    “When the official church has to publish a booklet explaining, step by step, why ‘this is good for you,’ bet your bottom dollar it’s not going to be any help at all—especially not where Catholics really need it to help, in their weary and puzzled souls.” – Fr. William O’Malley, SJ, in U.S. Catholic

  • USA Today on the new translation

    “I’ve been encouraged by the beauty of the new prayers.” — Archbishop Kurtz, Louisville “It’s awkward, it’s choppy, they’ve got sentences in there that are eight, nine, 10 lines long.” –Michael Diebold, co-chair, Louisville Liturgy Forum

  • Liturgical orientation and idolatry?

    If I were to put this polemically, which of course I would never do, I would say that identifying the crucifix rather than the Eucharist as the point of orientation at Mass skirts the edge of idolatry.

  • The Worship Mall

    I was first drawn to Bryan Spinks’ book The Worship Mall because I’ve been wrestling with the reality that so many of my friends and family have either left the Catholic Church or stopped attending any religious service. I have been trying to understand their decision.

  • Some are welcome

    “[Bishop Morlino says] to us that [Marty Haugen’s “All Are Welcome”] cannot possibly be ‘appropriate-for-liturgical-use’ because the chorus is not true and hence not beautiful.”