“The sociological dynamics of the new Catholic movements entails the risk of sectarianism or of conceiving the Church as a separated from the world, or as a community separated from the rest of the Church of ‘normal’ Catholics who do not belong to a movement.”
Read moreMonth: December 2014
Merry Christmas!?
One has to be a bit of a liturgical purist to put this out to people now …
Read moreNon solum: Introductions before the Readings
Is it good liturgical practice to have explanations before the readings at Mass?
Read moreNon solum: The Christmas Proclamation
Do you really try to hit that high F?
Read moreTeaching the Bible with liturgy
This semester I was teaching the first theology to two wonderful seminars at Notre Dame. We went bumpety-bump-bump through an incomplete but helpful set of tools for reading scripture critically, and managed a rough-and-ready historical overview that allowed them to at least place texts on a timeline and have a sense of what was happening at the same time. I wanted to transition to thinking about how these texts-with-a-history could support theological ways of thinking so that we could see that process in the New Testament’s use of Hebrew Scriptures. At the same time, it was the week before the mid-semester, and almost all my students were in their first semester of college and drooping.
Read moreTilman Riemenschneider of the Day: Madonna and Child
It seems to me this is a courageous Mary, the sort of woman who could utter the Magnificat in a convincing way. She is an eschatological figure, the one who stands at the threshold of the age to come.
Read moreDecember 23: O Emmanuel
Come, be forever our beyond even in the midst of life.
Read moreMajority of German Bishops for Communion for Divorced and Remarried
The paper of the German Bishops’ Conference is titled “Theologically Responsible and Pastorally Appropriate Ways of Accompanying the Divorced and Remarried.”
Read moreLiturgy in Collegeville: From the Archives – Part XXXII
The guitar was again discussed and its merits and demerits were considered.
Read moreAilment #7: On Clothing
“When the appearance, the color of vestments and honors become the first objectives of life…”
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