Rita Ferrone, Author at PrayTellBlog

Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of worship and the arts for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Scarves instead of palms in Senegal

April 11, 2019 Rita Ferrone Inculturation Liturgical year

The situation in Dakar is unique because it is motivated by ecology rather than a simple question of what is available.

Another Rembrandt: Thoughts on the Prodigal Son

April 2, 2019 Rita Ferrone Art and Architecture Lectionary / Liturgy of Word Liturgical year Liturgy and Virtues

The Prodigal Son is the centerpiece of the last three Sundays of Lent in Year C. Why?

Archbishop Durocher speaks in favor of women deacons

March 10, 2019 Rita Ferrone Church Reform Ordained Ministry

Would Archbishop Durocher’s proposal to include women really make a difference? It could be a brilliant idea.

Penitential Liturgy

March 6, 2019 Rita Ferrone Penance-Reconciliation Pope Francis

I watched it with interest, both because of the unusual nature of the gathering, and because I wondered what it might tell us about penitential celebrations generally.