Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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Category: Liturgy and Virtues
Mercy is the Problem
During my undergraduate days at The Catholic University of America, I was very fortunate to take an upper level christology course, “Jesus as the Christ,”
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The Alarming Consequences of Communion
Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric.
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Corona Pandemic and Oikonomia
How we analyze others amidst the corona pandemic.
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The Liturgy of the Mall
How do we understand the ways in which habitual participation in Christian liturgy forms us?
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Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
All these hungry people, and the disciples don’t think they’ve got the wherewithal to help. But, guess what? They have.
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Another Rembrandt: Thoughts on the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son is the centerpiece of the last three Sundays of Lent in Year C. Why?
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Fasting, Mainstream Culture, and Liturgy
Fasting is one practice that enables the practitioner to become aware of their less fortunate brothers and sisters.
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Humility and Worship
Humility as a precondition for worship and as contributing factor to participation in worship can remind us all that liturgy and life form a closed circuit and yet a circuit that opens to the in-breaking of the kingdom of God.
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