From the Boston Globe: “As Younger Catholics Drift Away, the Church Considers What Works.” Some sobering data here. In 1990, one-third of U.S. children were Catholic.
Read moreAuthor: Anthony Ruff, OSB
Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is the founder of the National Catholic Youth choir. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the local county jail and the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.
The Prayer the Catholic Church Needs
Come, Holy Spirit.
Read moreSistine Chapel Choir under Investigation
From the Vatican press office, Pray Tell translation: Concerning what is appearing in the press about some occurrences of the Sistine Chapel Choir, it is confirmed:
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Teaching Liturgy to Undergrads
How to do it?
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Which Office “Counts”?
As an oblate can I fulfill my diaconal ordination promise to pray the Liturgy of the Hours by using a Benedictine version such as Benedictine Daily Prayer?
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Thank You Pray Tell Readers!
Pray Tell readership has increased over 109% in the past year. New users are up 121%.
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They’re both vegan… and both conservative. He is Jewish, and by the end of the article, you gather that she is Roman Catholic. A priest
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Praying the Rosary
Our manner of prayer changes and develops over the course of our life, with hills and valleys, times of consolation and periods of dryness.
Read moreShakeup at NPM
Steve Petrunak, president and CEO of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians since May 2017, wrote to the membership today to inform them of restructuring
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Development of Doctrine – Capital Punishment, Liturgy
There was a time when popes put cardinals to death.
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