The Vatican has given a green light for female altar servers for the papal visit to Germany.
Read moreMonth: August 2011
How would you consecrate 1,500,000 hosts?
I take it as given that it is a good thing to gather a million-and-a-half young people from around the world to pray with each other and with the Supreme Pontiff. My question is whether it is possible to celebrate the Eucharist in a worthy manner at such an event.
Read morePhoenix cathedral bans girl servers
… to promote vocations to the priesthood.
Read moreAugust 20: St. Bernard, Bees, and Bodies
On this feast day of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, I give thanks for the reminder that Catholic liturgy needs both bees and bodies.
Read moreLiving with the Missal in Scotland
What kind of obedience do Catholics owe the Church, with reference to the new English translation of the Roman Missal? Even before its introduction this autumn, there has been a glimpse from Scotland of the way some parishes and their priests are reacting, not with open defiance, but with excuses and prevarication as to why their parish is not yet “ready” for the new Missal. Bishop Peter Moran, outgoing Bishop of Aberdeen, spoke recently of “a certain amount of resistance in the parishes”, which was a “challenge.”
Read moreThe New Missal Translation Is Not (Yet) a Big Deal for Everyone
As reported in Our Sunday Visitor, research by CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, indicates that less that a quarter of English-speaking Catholics are aware that there will be a new translation of the Mass this fall.
Read moreDid you attend Assumption in a tree?
In Allouville-Bellefosse, you can go to mass in an 800-year-old tree.
Read moreThis looks like trouble: MisguidedMissal.com
Guess how they feel about the new translation?
Read moreIn Defense of Fr. Talk-Show-Host (sort of)
This past weekend I had occasion to preside at a baptism and a wedding on the same day, which prompted me to think a bit about the demands that the reformed liturgical rites place on those who preside at them.
Read moreCCCB missal website
The changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council are on-going. Therefore, in a Church that is alive with the Holy Spirit, we can expect that the process of change will always be present.
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