Pastoral Theology Archives

Eugenio Costa SJ, 1934-2021

January 19, 2021 Paul Inwood Pastoral Theology

With his death we come to the end of an era of the great post-Vatican II liturgical pioneers.

Awareness, Wisdom, Will: A “Culture of Care”–in Liturgy

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.

Singing for the Dead: Pie Jesu

October 29, 2020 Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB Funerals/Burial Music: General Pastoral Theology Popular Piety

Soul-searing beauty has the power to permeate the places we so often guard, to allow the grace of God’s love to enter.

Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?

October 1, 2020 Other Voices Environment and Ecology Pastoral Theology Penance-Reconciliation

Through ritual actions and prayers of repentance in times of disaster, the church is invited to offer itself in service to those most afflicted by natural calamities and to denounce, through the act of repentance, the collective sin that exacerbates those afflictions.

We’re Still Waiting for a Reformed Liturgy of the Hours

July 22, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgy of the Hours Pastoral Theology

I’m looking forward to some more hopeful future in which I might be able to join the Church again—maybe over a bowl of purréed mangos—in sanctifying the day.

Mercy is the Problem

July 20, 2020 Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM Liturgy and Virtues Pastoral Theology Scripture

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,”