In May 1999 Pope St. John Paul II warned the Bishops of Ontario on their Their Ad Limina Visit, “the anonymity of the city cannot
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Category: Art and Architecture
Brief Book Review: Imagining Our Neighbors As Ourselves
To the degree that we can see ourselves reflected in particular characters, we can begin the work of engaging with their stories to critique our own way of being.
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Christmas 2022: Of Cooks and Code-switches
What happened in Bethlehem, after all,turns all expectations of what constitutes normality on its head.
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Liturgical Art and Scandal
Headlines in the Catholic media have recently focused on a series of scandals related to Fr. Marko Rupnik. Rupnik is perhaps the most famous living
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Book Review: Remove the Pews
“Contrary to the trend among some to sell off or completely redo sacred spaces, Schaper insists that they have deep roots in neighborhoods, in families, in peoples hearts even if they do not regularly attend services in them.”
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Brief Book Review: New Church, New Altar
“A thoroughly documented historical and liturgical commentary and a most helpful pastoral guide to the celebration of this ritual for the dedication of a church and an altar.”
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50,000 Syro-Malabar Christians Protest in Favor of Versus Populum
Yesterday’s Times of India reports that 50.000 Syro-Malabar Christians of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church took to the streets to protest
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Renovated Sanctuary at the Church of the Gesù
I was in Rome this week and, never having lived there and had the chance to “do” the city properly, on every short visit I
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Brief Book Review: The Art of Holy Week and Easter
“This little book is a beautiful invitation to go more deeply into the moments of Holy Week and Easter.”
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Pope Francis to Sicilian clerics: Take off your grandmother’s lace.
In an audience with bishops and priests of Sicily on 9 June 2022, Pope Francis told the clerics to stop wearing their “grandmother’s lace”, saying
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