Category: Demographics and Sociology
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Book Review: When Church Stops Working
A specially designed, shorter text, aimed at reaching ordinary people, clergy as well as lay, in serious reading and reflection on the local church, namely the parish.
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Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith
A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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From the Wires: U.S. Catholic Priests Are Increasingly Conservative as Faithful Grow More Liberal
Younger priests are more conservative, study finds. Is this just stating the obvious or is there more to consider?
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Book Review: Intercultural Marriage
Theologically speaking, the process of interculturality is revelatory of the Church’s understanding of the sacramental union, which reconciles, heals, and unites the barriers created by differences.
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Book Review: The Church after Innovation
For Root, the wholehearted adoption by the church of an ethic of innovation and entrepreneurship goes against everything the church is.
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Communion Under Both Species: Anecdotal Demographic Observations
Who receives from the cup and why?
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Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
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Canada set to lose 9,000 church buildings.
National Trust for Canada has recently released a report projecting that out of some 27,600 current church buildings a full 1/3 will be closed or demolished within 10 years. At stake is not simply religious adherence, but a significant change to the built fabric of communities and social identities which depend on a sense of…