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Archive for July 21st, 2012

National Black Catholic Survey and Congress

Jul 21

Posted by Other Voices in Conferences / Workshops / Meetings, Demographics and Sociology, Homiletics, Inculturation | 7 Comments

by Jack Rakosky
African-American Catholics are more engaged in their parishes than are white Catholics.

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Fr. Pasley on the Distinctive Voices of the Ordinary Form of the Mass

Jul 21

Posted by Paul Ford in Reform of the Reform | 3 Comments

Fr. Robert Pasley, the chaplain of the Church Music Association of America, has a written a lengthy addition to our conversation about the ways in which the forms of the Mass may enrich one another. I received permission to reprint it here on Pray Tell as part of my larger desire to create respectful dialogue.

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Mass facing the people—a defense

Jul 21

Posted by Paul Ford in New Missal Implementation, Pope Benedict XVI, Reform of the Reform, Translation / New Missal | 27 Comments

To some readers of Pray Tell it might seem eyebrow-raising to be addressing this issue in the summer of 2012. But some of our friends continue to assert that we regular celebrators of the OF are laboring under a massive misunderstanding of the implementation documents of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

So let’s look at this issue again.

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