Petition and protest letter for those unhappy with the new Missal translation.
Read moreMonth: November 2011
Austrian Priests Support the “Appeal to Disobedience” by a Wide Margin UPDATE 11-9
More than 70 percent of Austrian priests have a fundamentally positive view of the priests’ initiative for disobedience. Older priests are much more open to reform than their younger colleagues.
Read moreAnglican Confirmation (or: Of Studies, Liturgical, Part II)
As promised several weeks ago, the first of my Ph.D. comprehensive examination topics, covering the area of Christian Initiation and the period of the Reformation.
Read moreNovember and remembering the dead
How does your community remember the dead during the month of November?
Read moreEvelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials
Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966.
Read moreAmerican Catholic parishes prepare for new Mass translation that sticks closer to Latin
Here’s an AP story on the missal.
Read moreBe honest
“The new Missal asks us to eliminate hymns in place of chant.” “The new Missal wants us to sing more Latin.” “The new Missal demands that only the Grail translation of the psalms be used.” (Now there’s a whopper.)
Read more“Glaring howler” – what a way to start with the new missal
Are priests expected to read the prayer as printed?
Read moreA bishop writes of the Church’s failings
One Sunday, a man wore a hat and deliberately kept it on throughout the Mass. At one point, the celebrant sent the altar server to ask the usher to instruct the gentleman to remove his hat. “Thank God,” the man replied to the usher. “I’ve been coming to this parish every week for the past six months, and it’s taken this ploy with the hat to get someone to acknowledge my presence.”
Read moreOpen Discussion: The new translation and encouraging participation
On the occasion of a new translation…how can we encourage active participation?
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