Little did I know when I posted something about “blue Christmas”-liturgies here recently that people not far from where I live would be forced to
Read moreMonth: December 2012
Christ and Christmas Cards
You would think that in our contemporary overkill pre-Christmas, anything-you-want consumer culture I would have no difficulties finding a Christmas card. Think again.
Read moreThe TLS and the New Missal
This week’s The Times Literary Supplement carries a vigorous review of the UK edition of the Roman Missal.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 22
The first of the Constitution’s “general norms” declares on whose authority modification of the Liturgy may be done. This may be a good point to review the categories contra legem, pro lege, and praeter legem in reference to liturgical practices and discuss the development of liturgical customs as we have witnessed them over the last fifty years.
Read moreCardinal Marx of Munich for “Intensive Further Thinking” about Women’s Ordination
“Then we must keep thinking intensively about such things,” the Cardinal said. “Perhaps it is not yet the end of the path that we continue on with each other.”
Read morePope To Identify With Catholic Youth By Giving Up On Catholicism
And some people think Pope Benedict XVI is hidebound conservative.
Read moreDiocesan Missal Survey report goes live
The complete report is now available to download as a PDF.
Read moreGarbage in, Bach out
The town of Cateura, Paraguay was literally built on top of a landfill – a landfill that receives over 1,500 tons of waste each day.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 21
The first sentence of art. 21 makes it clear that the Council Fathers’ intention in undertaking a reform/restoration/renewal of the Liturgy was ultimately for pastoral purposes: so that the faithful might more deeply avail themselves of the divine life offered them through the liturgy.
Read moreBook Review: Same Call, Different Men: The Evolution of the Priesthood Since Vatican II by Mary L. Gautier, Paul M. Perl, & Stephen J. Fichter
Why the very high level of morale among priests?
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