Anne Burke, a justice on the Illinois State Supreme Court and former head of the review board of lay people for the US bishops’ sex abuse policy, suggests that the Pope lose his red shoes and switch to a black cassock.
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The latest on the missal timeline
Here’s the latest on the upcoming (we think it still probably is) English missal from a pretty official source.
Read morePapal Mass in England
Today’s Tablet reports on the Mass for the beatification of Cardinal Newman to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.
Read moreHow we got the current GIRM
For those interested in how the Roman Church manages to produce and translate documents, here is my recollection of how we got the current General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
Read moreA Crisis of Reception – COMPLETE!
We have now published the entire master’s thesis by J. Peter Nixon, “A Crisis of Reception: The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the Debate over the English Translation of the Roman Missal.”
Read moreMissal Implementation Flowchart II
PrayTell encourages everyone to start praying! As to what to pray for…well, we leave that up to you.
Read moreGrail for $ale – UPDATE 4/23
It is a problem, I think, when you have to pay a publisher and a monastery to use the Church’s official text.
Read moreNew Grail psalm translation now approved
“I am happy to inform you that the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has granted the recognitio for the Revised Grail Psalter by the Monks of Conception Abbey for liturgical use in the Dioceses of the United States, which has been approved by the Latin Church members of the USCCB in November, 2008.”
Read moreNot So Fast
It’s anybody’s guess when the new English missal will be approved. My crystal ball is at the shop for a checkup so I can’t make any predictions today.
Read moreFollowing Pope Benedict or Not?
Damian Thompson at The Telegraph is not shy about stating his opinions.
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