Demographics and Sociology Archives

Communion Under Both Species: Anecdotal Demographic Observations

Who receives from the cup and why?

Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism

October 13, 2019 Lizette Larson Demographics and Sociology Environment and Ecology Liturgical year

How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.

Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home

September 27, 2019 Bruce Morrill Demographics and Sociology Environment and Ecology Homiletics Lectionary / Liturgy of Word Liturgical year Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis Social Justice

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?

Canada set to lose 9,000 church buildings.

May 31, 2019 James Hadley, OblSB Art and Architecture Demographics and Sociology

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

Is a shared ecclesiology across the generations possible?

March 25, 2019 Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB Church Reform Demographics and Sociology

How can we be the Church together?

Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters

February 13, 2019 Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB Demographics and Sociology Inculturation Religious life Social Justice

These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.

Is the Religious Right to Blame for Christianity’s Decline?

January 26, 2019 Anthony Ruff, OSB Demographics and Sociology

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

Ordinary Time: The Need to Move toward Community

January 22, 2019 Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM Demographics and Sociology Liturgical year

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

The Myth of Noble Simplicity

November 12, 2018 James Hadley, OblSB Art and Architecture Demographics and Sociology Liturgical Movement Vatican II

Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.

Fashion Trend Alert: Chapel Veils are Back!

October 25, 2018 Katharine E. Harmon Demographics and Sociology Young Adults

Among undergraduates, we’ve seen a decided uptick in young women who elect to wear the mantilla or “chapel veil”.

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