Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.
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Author: Rita Ferrone
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.
Women in Instituted Ministries: “A Milestone and a Point of No Return”
It “will not fail to positively mark the life of the Church.”
Read morePope Francis Celebrates Holy Thursday with Cardinal Becciu
It raises more questions than it answers, because the Triduum liturgies belong to everyone.
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Pope Francis and the Cause of Liturgical Renewal
Pope Francis is fostering liturgical renewal from within the dynamic of participation.
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Shake Up at Saint Peter’s Basilica Favors the Liturgy of Vatican II
No more private Masses at St. Peter’s.
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Contactless donation baskets debut in Strasbourg
Is this the wave of the future?
Read moreDetails of the Inauguration Day Liturgy
The Pastoral Associate for Liturgy and Director of Music at St Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, Tom Stehle, has shared some of the details of the
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Awareness, Wisdom, Will: A “Culture of Care”–in Liturgy
Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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What does Fratelli Tutti tell us about liturgy?
Our liturgies must resonate with “the music of the Gospel.” Here are some thoughts on how we might do that — inspired by the Pope’s new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.
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Creation, Day Two: Waters and the Sky
We rely upon that second day of Creation more than we admit.
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