Month: August 2017
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Painter of Pope Benedict’s Portrait Quarrels with Gänswein
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, tried to compel painter Michael Triegl to re-do his portrait of the pope which was commissioned by the Diocese of Regensburg, the Pforzheimer Zeitung reports. But the painter declined. Triegl’s comments, although they concern a memorial picture rather than liturgical art, raise issues that are important in…
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Recommended Viewing: “The Churchmen” (“Ainsi soient-ils”)
If I had my way, every seminarian and seminary formator in the USA, as well as every bishop, priest, deacon and pastoral minister, would watch this series.
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Solemnity, Drums, and Dancing in the Liturgy in Africa
For Nigerian Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, who was made a cardinal in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, beating drums and dancing are not necessarily at odds with the solemnity of the liturgy. But the measure must be what truly contributes to solemnity. The cardinal spoke at the opening ceremony of the 4th national…
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Watching People Watch (Then Not Watch) the Eclipse: A Liturgical-Theological Reflection
While the natural-cosmic event was surely most captivating, I also discovered my inner-anthropologist kicking in to make the following observation about the before-and-after dynamics that I think sheds some light (pardon the pun) on liturgical time-keeping.
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Pope Francis’s Major Liturgy Address: The Sources
In this mainline narrative, which Francis has affirmed and strengthened, the task in the present day is simply to affirm the Second Vatican Council.
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Pope Francis: Liturgical reform is irreversible
Pope Francis: It is not a question “of rethinking the reform by reviewing its choices, but of knowing better the underlying reasons for it.”
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Who Should Elect The Bishop? A Suggestion
My idea how the procedure of finding a new bishop for a diocese might look like.
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Book Review: Graham Hughes, Reformed Sacramentality