[A] very successful and balanced effort to connect [a] variety of topics to the Council’s treatment of the Church in two key constitutions.
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Author: Other Voices
Brief Book Review: Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology
As much as many of us are inclined to resist it, “popular” religious song has the power to shape the faith of a community and religious tradition.
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Paganism at the Vatican?
Our Lady of the Amazon, pray for us.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for October 13 (28C)
Jesus – a roving boundary smasher, the divine opponent of all “them-ing.”
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Who Is Saint John Henry Newman? A Conversation with a Follower
Newman would not have had any trouble with Vatican II.
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Brief Book Review: Saving Images
A very good summary of Lathrop’s project of arguing that the gospels are always presenting us with images that call for the reform of our assemblies.
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On Trying to Revise the Missal
And nothing happened.
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Review Essay: Political Orthodoxies
“Most of the “unorthodoxies” Hovorun examines in this book are prominent dysfunctions or misuses of religion in the modern period, notorious ones at that.”
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Brief Book Review: Black Madonna
Lee weaves a more accurate tapestry of [Mary], making her accessible to today’s reader.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for September 29 (26C)
It is easy to assume today’s readings are a condemnation of the rich.
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