Category: Church Reform
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New Survey Shows Stark Generational Contrast in Priests
JP MISHEFF — One doesn’t need to squint to see the monk community radically responding not just to the times, but to a holy longing both from within and outside the community.
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Bible, Life and Worship: A Report on the International Conference in Trier
JANOSCH DÖRFEL — Experts from German-speaking countries and the U.S. came together to shed light on the transatlantic interconnections between the liturgical and biblical movements.
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“O Lord, Open My Lips” – Part 2: It’s Not a Breviary Anymore!
ANTHONY RUFF — The Office is, above all, the daily prayer and praise of the Church gathered.
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“O Lord, Open My Lips” – Part 1: Reform of the Reform of the Reform
ANTHONY RUFF — The monks of Saint John’s Abbey have just completed a two-week trial run of a revised Liturgy of the Hours. Monks positively inhabit the Office, so this experiment felt something like a family moving into a new house in another town.
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Large Scale Eucharistic Concelebration & Synodality: What Is Appropriate Today?
PAUL TAYLOR — Two questions for consideration are: what does “the good of the Christian faithful” require or suggest from the point of view of synodality, and should Eucharistic concelebration on a large scale still be considered preferable in a synodal context?
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Fr. Andrew Menke outlines the work of ICEL undertaken on behalf of the English speaking Conferences of Bishops around the world.
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Nigerian Bishops’ Liturgy Letter
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — On August 15, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria published a letter “On Abuses in Liturgical Celebrations.” The letter is addressed to “all Catholic priests in Nigeria”…
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People, Places, and Things: Restructuring the Church in Baltimore
FRITZ BAUERSCHMIDT — Some reflection on plans to reconfigure the Church in the city of Baltimore.
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Synod calls for … another English translation…
EDITOR — Another translation in English? What language shall we borrow?