Category: Ordained Ministry
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In the image of God he created them …
What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
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Book Review: An Ecumenical Priesthood
“Rinderknecht has done us all a great service here both in his lucid translation and thoughtful commentary. This is a little sign of ecumenical spring.”
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Brief Book Review: Verbum ac Spiritus
McCarthy presents a grounded theology of liturgical presiding, as well as principles for planning and/or re-organizing liturgical space in contemporary churches.
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Brief Book Review: Understanding the Religious Priesthood
Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB, reviews Understanding the Religious Priesthood.
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Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood
The Vatican has announced a Theological Symposium on vocations, to be held in Rome on February 17-19, 2022. Entitled “Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood,” this three-day session will be open to the public, but is especially oriented toward bishops and all those — men and women — who are “interested in theology,” according…
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Applause, Applause!
Is hand clapping appropriate for liturgy?
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Cathedral Chapter of Chur Refuses Papal Terna
After a hiatus one and a half years, the cathedral chapter of Chur in Switzerland suddenly got the opportunity to elect a new bishop from a papal shortlist with three names. Yesterday the majority of the chapter members did what nobody had expected: they refused the entire list. According to kath.ch and Neue Zuericher Zeitung,…
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First Blessing in the Ordination Mass?
Does it make sense that newly ordained priests give their first blessing at the end of the ordination liturgy?
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Discerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic
Even in a time of pandemic, the eucharistic is not an optional liturgical context for ordinations, but of the essence of the sacramental action of the Trinity and the Church because of the unity of church, eucharist and priesthood.