Are the future actions mentioned in Llovera’s interview with Tornielli just the final convulsions of an unhappy reign, or might they actually come to pass?
Read moreMonth: December 2010
“For You and Who Else?”
by Paul Philibert
in America magazine
CARA on US Catholics
Anyone who likes statistics has to like CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, and their blog 1964. But, much as I like CARA, two of their recent posts strike me as wrong-headed.
Read moreCNN on the pope’s liturgy – sort of
CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households, and CNN International can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories. You’d think they could find someone who knows something about the religious ritual they’re covering.
Read morePope’s Master of Ceremonies Helps Benedict Restore Traditions
By Jason Horowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
The two sides of Christmas
The Cross and the Creche
Read moreWishing you a Not-so-Merry Christmas
A Chestertonian view of Christmas. “… there is in that image a true idea of an outpost, of a piercing through the rock and an entrance into an enemy territory. There is in this buried divinity an idea of undermining the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below; even as Herod the great king felt that earthquake under him and swayed with his swaying palace.”
Read moreMerry Christmas!
Pray Tell wishes a blessed and merry Christmas to our ever-growing readership.
Read moreA Prayer Before Family Reunions
This is for all those for whom Christmas is not always the “hap-happiest season of all.” As broken as some of our families are, may they each in some way be touched by the “calm and bright” of the Holy Family.
Read moreO Emmanuel
As Lutheran Christians, we own the fact that we are often thought of as the family of Christians ‘prone to excessive singing,’ as one Episcopalian wag put it.
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