“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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The propers appointed for Independence Day in the United States give us two distinct approaches to celebrating July 4.
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Recordings of liturgies at Sacred Heart Church in Southbridge, MA, ranging from 1966-1969, provide a fascinating glimpse of liturgical change in one parish.
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The Atlantic has a piece that discusses the “Ritual Design Lab” in Silicon valley that will design rituals for births, deaths, and everything in between.
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Maybe it is possible to say everything without saying all that much.
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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.
Read moreI’m just saying: this wouldn’t happen with a birdbath-style font.
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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.
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The story of Christmas interrupts the story of empire.
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