In his blog on this site last week (6 July), Michael Joncas gave a wonderful overview of the Irish Church Music Association gathered in Maynooth,
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Category: 3_SCHOLARSHIP
16 Theses on Celibacy
In the context of the upcoming Amazon synod, ongoing scandals, and Pope Francis’s efforts to renew and reform the church, the book is timely.
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Brief Book Review: Suffering in Worship
“van Ommen highlights the importance of (and opportunities for) explicitly naming occasions where God suffers with people…”
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Are there things we ought not bless?
I was struck by an articleat Catholic News Agency that reported how the Russian Orthodox Church is considering ending their practice of blessing large weapons including
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Revised New Jerusalem Bible Lectionary for Sundays of Easter
What if the Revised New Jerusalem Bible were to be used in a new lectionary? Here’s how that could look.
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Brief Book Review: Easter Vigil Homilies
Easter Vigil Homilies by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) Who should read this? Anyone who listens to sermons, who preaches sermons, who finds the church’s witness
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On Fr. Neil O’Donaghue’s “Liturgical Inculturation in the Amazon: Not So Fast”
Who should decide whether or not there is a need for further inculturation?
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The Female Diaconate: Issues East and West—Part 2
Does ordaining women to the diaconate automatically mean that women could be ordained to the Priesthood (i.e. the Presbyterate)?
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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 Order of Creation and the Order of the Liturgy
Human worshippers always come to worship (as to everything else in life) embodied, including the various ways in which each person is gendered.
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