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Pope Francis Responds to the Proposed Amazonian Rite

As PrayTell already reported the recently concluded Amazonian Synod called for the establishment of an “Amazonian Rite” in its final document. However Pope Francis in his off the

Motu Proprio on the Sunday of the Word of God: Two Reactions

September 30, 2019 Editor Liturgical year Pope Francis Scripture

Pray Tell’s Fritz and Fr. Anthony weigh in on the pope’s new initiative.

Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home

September 27, 2019 Bruce Morrill Demographics and Sociology Environment and Ecology Homiletics Lectionary / Liturgy of Word Liturgical year Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis Social Justice

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?

Prayers of Intercession for the Season of Creation

September 3, 2019 Rita Ferrone Environment and Ecology Inculturation Pope Francis

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.” How, therefore, shall we pray?

Liturgical Inculturation in the Amazon: Not So Fast

June 22, 2019 Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue Inculturation Pope Francis Popular Piety

Inculturation is a difficult process.

Penitential Liturgy

March 6, 2019 Rita Ferrone Penance-Reconciliation Pope Francis

I watched it with interest, both because of the unusual nature of the gathering, and because I wondered what it might tell us about penitential celebrations generally.

Reflections on Pope Francis’ Exhortations and the Chair of Peter

February 22, 2019 Michael Joncas Liturgical Spirituality Pope Francis

…it is good…not to end up favoring sterile ideological polarizations…The liturgy is not ‘the field of do-it-yourself’, but the epiphany of ecclesial communion