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
Office Hymns: Will the U.S. Bishops Advance Vatican II’s Vision?
Misplaced obedience to a vision not espoused by Vatican II or the post-conciliar directives could impair the poetic and spiritual value of office hymns in English.
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Brief Book Review: Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology
As much as many of us are inclined to resist it, “popular” religious song has the power to shape the faith of a community and religious tradition.
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Brief Book Review: Saving Images
A very good summary of Lathrop’s project of arguing that the gospels are always presenting us with images that call for the reform of our assemblies.
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Review Essay: Political Orthodoxies
“Most of the “unorthodoxies” Hovorun examines in this book are prominent dysfunctions or misuses of religion in the modern period, notorious ones at that.”
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Silence in Music
I think sometimes we sin against the artful use of silence in liturgy — in music and in the ritual itself.
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Brief Book Review: Black Madonna
Lee weaves a more accurate tapestry of [Mary], making her accessible to today’s reader.
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The Writing Work of the People
Words are powerful. How we use words in worship matters.
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Deaf Access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Past and Present
Reconciliation has historically been one of the most difficult sacraments for Deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics to access and continues to be so.
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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?
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Brief Book Review: Priesthood in Religious Life
The editors…explore solutions that preserve both the integrity of religious life and commitment to the ministerial needs of the Church today.
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