For Root, the wholehearted adoption by the church of an ethic of innovation and entrepreneurship goes against everything the church is.
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Category: Inculturation
Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition
Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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Brief Book Review: A Womanist Theology of Worship
“Allen asks the reader to consider the worship they participate in both in practice and its history to consider how it might be shaped and informed by these new commitments.”
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Work Toward an Amazonian Rite Moves Forward
A friendly meeting in Rome signals that good progress is being made toward the creation of a rite for the Amazon.
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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Amen Corner: The Pandemic Push for Inculturation
Carmel Pilcher, RSJ, offers this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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Only “inculturated” Roman Missal since Vatican II
Vatican News has an article on Pope Francis and the Missel Romain pour les Diocèses du Zaïre. This is in the context of his cancelled
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Brief Book Review: Crowning the Year
“An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to engage the liturgical life a rural parish for all its worth.”
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Francis, Liturgical Pope: On the Vernacular and Social Transformation
For a biologist who has famously spoken of the church as a smelly sheepfold and a field hospital, the seemingly ethereal world of language appears beyond the scope of Francis’ interest.
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CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION: Harmon, Nichols, and Ramshaw on Gendered God Language in Worship (Dec. 21)
Gendered Language for God in Worship, A Conversation on a Controversial Topic
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