One of Pray Tell ’s contributors, Rita Ferrone, will appear on CNN.
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NYT: What Do You Look for in Modern Translation?
“Every text is, to some extent, a bafflement to its translator, because every language, like every writer, has characteristics that can’t be ‘carried across’ — which is what ‘translate’ means — into another tongue, another culture.”
Read moreRestoring the Liturgy in San Francisco with a new liturgical institute
“We see everything collapsing around us, and the Church is emerging.”
Read moreARCIC3 co-chair Abp. Longley: Vatican’s rules on eucharistic sharing could be further relaxed
Seeing how in 1993 certain relaxations were made in the Vatican’s rules on eucharistic sharing, further relaxation is possible.
Read moreFreiburg: Development in Access to Communion for the Remarried
The Archdiocese of Freiburg intends to permit its priests to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion.
Read moreThis Friday: Last ever Mass for Blessed John XXIII
This Friday, October 11, 2013, will be the last ever optional memorial of Blessed John XXIII.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 59
The sacraments are ordered to the sanctifying of human beings, to the building up of the Body of Christ, and finally to rendering worship to God; assuredly as signs they also pertain to instruction.
Read moreLiturgical Language and Technology: One Priest’s Experience of PowerPoint Projections for Worship
At best, the slides employed by the congregation at Grace Church Van Vorst help foster a vibrant and diverse community. They allow for easy integration of texts from various traditions, including praise songs, alternative creedal statements and music, and other contemporary materials. At worst, the slide show represents a kind of shift: what used to be simply clericalism has become instead control and dominance by a small and self-selecting group.
Read morePope’s Monday homily on the good Samaritan: “A zealous priest wearing a cassock goes on his way to say Mass…”
Christians, Catholics, priests, Bishops and even the Pope sometimes turn away from God!
Read moreDouthat (NYT) on Pope Francis
Does the center hold?
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