I had the pleasure of visiting with a former student recently, who has worked within the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois after her graduation. As she
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Category: Church Reform
The Liturgical Office of Evangelist – a Proposal Inspired by the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Calls for the admission of women to ordained offices in the Catholic Church are becoming louder than ever. I would like to make a proposal, which falls short of those calls, but makes use of the holistic power of liturgical symbolism.
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German Catholic Women: A Week of Boycott
German Catholic women begin week of boycott
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Loving the Church means loving your enemies
“…the most difficult of challenges in this dark and dolorous hour which love alone can redeem…”
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Is a shared ecclesiology across the generations possible?
How can we be the Church together?
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An Altar by any Other Name
Multivalent liturgy requires multivalent art and architecture.
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Archbishop Durocher speaks in favor of women deacons
Would Archbishop Durocher’s proposal to include women really make a difference? It could be a brilliant idea.
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Archbishop Wester: Do the Seminaries Need Reform?
“Our seminaries must be more attentive than ever in helping our seminarians to grow spiritually, psychologically, intellectually, and emotionally.”
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Moving the Penitential Act
For at least 50 years liturgists have been discussing whether the Penitential Act in the Order of Mass ought to be repositioned.
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Of Deck Chairs and Semantics
For those of us who focus our ministry in the area of liturgy, it can be tempting to think that what is occurring at this moment in regard to the sexual abuse crisis and cover-up has little, if anything, to do with us.
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