What is happening is a sin against creation, not because we are passively threatening our own existence, but because creation has its own redemptive journey that intersects and is co-terminus with the human species.
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Author: James Hadley, OblSB
James Hadley is a priest in the Church of England currently serving in the Diocese of St. Albans. He previously taught Liturgical Art and Architecture, as well as church design, at the Catholic University of America, Rome Campus. He lectured in Faith and Culture for the Rome summer program of the Australian Catholic University. He has studied in the faculty of Beni Culturali at the Pontifical Gregorian University, as well as, the Pontifical Academy of Christian Archeology, and the Vatican Museums. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and a License in Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology from the Catholic University of America. His articles have appeared in Anaphora, Studia Liturgica, Ecclesia Orans, and Material Culture Review. In addition to his parish ministry he works as a liturgical artist and designer.
Pope gives away Peter’s bones.
The Ecumenical Patriarch was first to announce on July 1 that Pope Francis gave the reliquary containing the bones of Peter, separated from the basilica’s
Read moreCanada set to lose 9,000 church buildings.
National Trust for Canada has recently released a report projecting that out of some 27,600 current church buildings a full 1/3 will be closed or
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Notre-Dame 2.0
The pertinent question for church heritage is communio, not modification.
Read moreDiocese of Rome Insists – The Paschal Triduum belongs in parishes.
On 1 March, the Diocese of Rome, clarified that the Easter Triduum, and especially the Easter Vigil, are to be celebrated in parishes; Not in
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An Altar by any Other Name
Multivalent liturgy requires multivalent art and architecture.
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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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A Church of Color
The goal is not to decorate, but to invest sacred places once again with the significance of color.
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Good taste, bad taste, no taste: Liturgical Art and Architecture in a time of cultural exhaustion.
Rather than listen to specialists, we have mob-opinion and crowdsourced culture.
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Ad sanctos – Believing in the Saints Again
In the West we have done a poor job understanding and teaching the Communion of Saints.
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