The UK Jesuit online magazine, Thinking Faith, asked me if I had any thoughts on the Boston bombings, seeing as I was more or less on the spot. In the end what emerged was a reflection about Corpus Christi. But it turned out as something of a rumination on the idea of real, sacramental presence too.
Read moreAuthor: Philip Endean, SJ
Jesuit priest, on the staff of Campion Hall, Oxford. Currently visiting professor at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
Using Poor Language in the Liturgy
“The lack of spectacular consequence is hardly surprising. Few people attend church services simply for the beauty of the language.”
Read moreThe TLS and the New Missal
This week’s The Times Literary Supplement carries a vigorous review of the UK edition of the Roman Missal.
Read moreLogistical problems with the New Missal in the UK
The Catholic Truth Society (CTS) has blocked attempts by bookshops and parishes to buy chapel editions of the new English translation of the Missal from America after its own supplies sold out.
Read moreThe Anglican Bishop of London on the Eucharist
A recent pastoral letter from Richard Chartres, Bishop of London entitled ‘Do This in Memory of Me’.
Read moreChrist the King 2011: an Englishman preaches in Bunker Hill
If we celebrate this feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King here in the US, we need to recognise that so much of what is valuable and precious in this country arises from a rejection of the idea of kingship, a recognition that the political power of this world can often be dysfunctional and abusive, that human freedom and dignity need to be safeguarded.
Read moreEvelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials
Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966.
Read moreMore UK Reactions
Andrew Cameron-Mowat SJ, writing for Thinking Faith, the British Jesuits’ online journal, has trenchantly defended the 1973 Missal’s rendering of Domine, non sum dignus.
Read moreWhat is wrong–and right–with the new translation, continued
Paul Vallely’s article echoes a number of quite pained reactions I have been hearing from balanced, committed UK Catholics over the past weeks.
Read moreAn interesting post from Ireland
Dairne McHenry RSCJ writes an interesting piece in the September Furrow, reacting to the new translation and its imposition specifically as a woman religious.
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