Who receives from the cup and why?
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Category: Demographics and Sociology
Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
Read moreCanada set to lose 9,000 church buildings.
National Trust for Canada has recently released a report projecting that out of some 27,600 current church buildings a full 1/3 will be closed or
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Is a shared ecclesiology across the generations possible?
How can we be the Church together?
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Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters
These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
Read moreIs the Religious Right to Blame for Christianity’s Decline?
We’ve all heard this: liberal churches are shrinking and conservative churches are growing. It’s because – don’t you know? – churches that stand for something
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Ordinary Time: The Need to Move toward Community
As we move into the second week of Winter Ordinary Time, there is something about Nathan Mitchell’s reflection on the deeper meaning of the Baptism
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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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Fashion Trend Alert: Chapel Veils are Back!
Among undergraduates, we’ve seen a decided uptick in young women who elect to wear the mantilla or “chapel veil”.
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