Our baptismal tradition is laced through with female symbolism and imagery.
Read moreMonth: March 2016
“Help!” – the ultimate Lenten discipline
“I need help! No, I can do it MYSELF!” (struggles) “Help!”
Toddlers and Lenten discipline, by Tim O’Malley.
Read moreCatholic Herald on Cardinal Sarah and Liturgy
Isn’t it one of the three things that God doesn’t know, what a Jesuit is thinking?
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Catholic Mission and Witness: Notes on a Spring Break Trip to L’viv, Ukraine
We were showered with generosity and hospitality, including indulgence in the fine local cuisine, not to mention the loving touch of homemade delicacies.
Read moreThe glory of God is the human being fully alive
How have you talked or written about the promotion of human well-being as worship of God?
Read moreViewpoint: Women Could Be Authorized to Give the Homily at Mass
The bottom line: opening up preaching to lay men and women after rigorous training and official episcopal commissioning as “Lay Preachers” could, I think, greatly improve the unsatisfactory state of preaching in the Catholic Church.
Read moreThe Curse of Clericalism
Nothing remarkable there; indeed, the sort of things that liturgists have talked about both informally and formally during the past 50 years.
Read moreNational Catholic Youth Choir: Accepting Applications for Summer Camp 2016
Have you encouraged a young person you know to apply yet?
Read moreThe Revised Order of Celebrating Matrimony
This text may be used as of September 8, 2016, and its use is mandatory as of December 30, 2016.
Read moreLiturgical reading and the Rule of Benedict
One of the most important patterns of liturgical prayer is the periodic return to certain texts and actions—for example, the slow turning of the three-year lectionary cycle, or the genuflections and signs of the cross that mark our crossing the threshold between sacred and ordinary space and time. At the heart of these patterns is our faith that the words and actions of tradition are inexhaustible…
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