It’s fascinating stuff and provides lots of anecdotal evidence of what is happening liturgically in parishes on a typical Sunday.
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Author: Fritz Bauerschmidt
I am a professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, assigned to Corpus Christi parish.
Crossing the Limits of Inculturation?
Is a Hindu diety in Church too much?
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Baptism and (In)dignity
Baptism is terribly undignified. And that’s a good thing.
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Pope Francis: Liturgical reform is irreversible
Pope Francis: It is not a question “of rethinking the reform by reviewing its choices, but of knowing better the underlying reasons for it.”
Read moreTrimming Time: Eucharistic Prayer vs. Sign of Peace
You need to shorten Mass. Do you trim time from the Eucharistic Prayer or the Sign of Peace?
Read moreWedding Officiating for “Nones”
What to do when your non-religiously-affiliated friends ask you to officiate at their wedding.
Read moreOf Awkward Chalices and Liturgical Reform
Why are old chalices so hard to use for administering communion? What does this tell us about the reformed liturgy and its relation to our liturgical past?
Read moreThe Ecclesiastical Catwalk
An ecclesiastical fashion show from Poland.
Read moreChurchgoing
“Church isn’t an escape from the world. It’s a continuation of it. My family and I don’t go to church to deny the existence of the darkness. We to go to look so hard at the light that our eyes water.”
Read moreMore beauty, less God?
“Cathedrals don’t bang on about God in cathedrals but they bang on about beauty and that’s why I love them.” –Simon Jenkins
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