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Robert Mickens on “The Vatican Implosion”
“I define The Vatican Implosion as the collapse of an entire system, a structure, an ethos, a culture if you will, of global church governance. It’s the crumbling of what’s as close to an absolute monarchy as anything that ever existed in the world…”
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Blog Down for Maintenance Friday
The blog will be down Friday while server maintenance is done.
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Moving Roman Catholics and Episcopalians a bit further apart
The only blended Catholic/Episcopal parish in the US must change its worship practice.
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Congregation for Divine Worship Reformed – New Art and Music Section
The Vatican Secretariat of State has approved the reorganization of the Congregation for Divine Worship. A new office for liturgical music, art, and architecture has been established.
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New Preaching Doc from US Catholic Bishops
Here is the document on preaching just approved by the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference:
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Cokesbury stores are closing
The United Methodist Publishing House will be closing all its Cokesbury retail stores.
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Liturgical matters at the US Bishops’ Fall Meeting
Evaluating the new missal; electing a new BCDW chair; approving a new preaching document.
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Epistle Side? Gospel Side? Hello??
“Separating the places of proclamation for the Liturgy of the Word – simple for the lay lectors and grand for the ordained deacon – gives me a lot more heartburn than the latest piece of silly dressing-up.”
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O’Malley on V2 in NYT
The post-Vatican II church was not a different church. But if you take the long view, it seems to me incontestable that the turn was big, even if failures in implementation have made it less big in certain areas than the council intended.