Fritz Bauerschmidt, Author at PrayTellBlog

I am a professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

The Awareness Heuristic: School Shootings and Flying Monstrances

April 4, 2018 Fritz Bauerschmidt Demographics and Sociology Inculturation

Flying monstrances are a threat to the faith. But so is bad preaching, amateurish music, poor proclamation of the scriptures, bored celebrants, inattention to symbols, childish catechesis, and so forth.

The Danger of Immersion Fonts

March 27, 2018 Fritz Bauerschmidt Humor

I’m just saying: this wouldn’t happen with a birdbath-style font.

The Covenant of Dust

February 15, 2018 Fritz Bauerschmidt Penance-Reconciliation

We must turn from the covenant of sin and death to embrace the covenant of love and life that is offered to us in Jesus Christ.

Ars Praedicandi: Interrupting Empire

December 24, 2017 Fritz Bauerschmidt Ars Praedicandi Homiletics Homilies Liturgical year Social Justice

The story of Christmas interrupts the story of empire.

Of Mass and Parties

December 14, 2017 Fritz Bauerschmidt Eucharist Sacramental Theology

Relating the supersubstantial and the quotidian.

Pope Francis: “Lift up your hearts,” not “Lift up your phones.”

November 8, 2017 Fritz Bauerschmidt Pope Francis

Pope Francis comments on the way people at Papal Masses seem more concerned with getting a shot of the Pope than focusing on Christ present in the Eucharist.