It is interesting that SCL is meeting in an architecturally contemporary setting, and that Saturday features a Spanish-language track.
Read moreMonth: August 2016
“Re-Launching the Project of the Council”
Bishop Long of Parramatta in Australia sees in the Second Vatican Council a new paradigm. Re-launching the Council means that “it is time not of fearful retreat, disengagement and self-referential pomp, but of accompaniment and engagement.”
Read moreRitual Words in an Age of Drivel
I wonder how our instinctual distrust of the words spoken by so many people public figures colors the way most people hear the words spoken in and by the Church.
Read moreAd Orientem Worship from the Deaf Perspective – Part II
I propose that ad Christum replace the terms versus populum and ad orientem as it describes the doctrinal and liturgical principle that the Church has retained throughout history more accurately.
Read moreThe Worst Reasons for Ad Orientem
I was invited by The Catholic Herald to make the case against ad orientem. But I can’t do that, for I’m not opposed to this practice and I have celebrated Mass that way myself on a few occasions. What I am opposed to is the way some people advocate for it.
Read moreGetting Rid of Comments?
First Catholic Herald, and now National Public Radio.
Read moreAd Orientem Worship from the Deaf Perspective
Part I – The Deaf Experience
Read moreMartin Stuflesser on the Orientation of the Presider
All in all, one wishes that both forms of orientation of the celebration would retain their legitimate value and their validity for the celebration of Mass in the Roman rite, and that, on the far side of ideologically overheated discourse, a way can be found to a peaceful coexistence of both forms of orientation of the celebration.
Read moreViewpoint: Bishop Robert Barron a Great Gift to the Church
Barron has lamented what he calls the “beige Catholicism” that developed after Vatican II (not because of Vatican II!). By this he meant a watered-down understanding of Catholicism that lacked conviction and was minimalistic in content and tone. “Beige Catholicism” sadly led to a colorless style of catechesis and liturgical practice.
Read more2016 CTSA Proceedings: Reports on Sacraments & Liturgy
The annual convention theme was “Justice and Mercy,” while a couple of the sessions addressed topics in sacramental and liturgical theology. Here are links to the newly e-published Proceedings.
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