How did a centuries-old popular prayer become a lifeline for a young mom with her hands full?
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Category: Popular Piety
Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions
“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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Pope Francis to Sicilian clerics: Take off your grandmother’s lace.
In an audience with bishops and priests of Sicily on 9 June 2022, Pope Francis told the clerics to stop wearing their “grandmother’s lace”, saying
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Gaudete Sunday versus the Third Sunday of Advent
Today the Church celebrates the Third Sunday of Advent. This Sunday has traditionally been given the title Gaudete Sunday. This title comes from the first
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The Advents of our year…
Advent is complicated.
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At the End of the Sky
When we speak about inculturation in the liturgy, we tend to think of the Zaire Rite or the situation in the Amazonian Region. However, we
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Popular Piety: Holy Cards
Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.
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May Madness: Popular Piety vs. Doctrinal Feasts
Yesterday, on the Trinity Sunday, I presided a Liturgy of the Eucharist in a parish where I had not been for a number of years.
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Open for Prayer
Paul Westermeyer argues for the value of keeping a church “open for prayer” beyond those times when services are being held.
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