What to do when your non-religiously-affiliated friends ask you to officiate at their wedding.
Read moreAuthor: Fritz Bauerschmidt
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.
Of 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
Read moreArs Praedicandi: The Untamed God of Easter
Preparing a homily: “The guards were shaken with fear…and became like dead men.”
Read moreSlippery Hands
Why do we anoint the hands of catechumens?
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Preaching and “Themes”
“Themes” in preaching the seasons: A good idea all of the time? A good idea some of the time? A good idea none of the time?
Read moreEucharist, Prayer, and Protest
America magazine reports that approximately 550 people gathered on Sunday to celebrate Mass in Lafayette Square, near the White House, in order to show solidarity with immigrants and refugees affected by President Trump’s recent Executive Order.
Read moreEucharistic Praying in the 21st Century
Liturgical prayer is self-expressive of who we are now, but prayer is also a means of conveying tradition, of giving a sense of stability and rootedness, of being confronted with something that might at first seem slightly alien, which are things that can be undercut if our prayers are too much prayers-of-the-moment.
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