Kudos to the WLP hymnal committee for providing the church with so worthy a “worship aid” as One in Faith. The book presents today’s congregations with a mature guide into a distant future.
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I pretty much remember only one thing from undergrad sociology: the professor’s statement that both an urban slum and a suburban country club are examples of ghettos. – Alan Hommerding
Read moreWhy Catholics Can’t Sing (revised edition) by Thomas Day — Review
What was formerly a rant at full gallop is now more of a meandering moan, although some sections still retain the acidulous punch of the first edition.
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My Massachusetts-born husband insists that oceans are necessary in life. The expanse of open water leaves room for the imagination: inviting contemplation of the immensity
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Ever since the University of St. Thomas kindly gave me a new assignment as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies, I have
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In the midst of the birth of a new Mass setting, an interdiocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, and heaven-knows-what-else, I have managed to read a number of books.
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The variety of projects and obligations occupying me have had me reading across a range of scholarship. Here’s a sampling.
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My reading tastes fluctuate between church and non-church things. Sometimes I’m looking for links between them.
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When I first thought about what I have been reading lately, what came to mind is the undergraduate essays and papers I have been plowing through—more on them at another time.
Read moreRebuilt Liturgy
A report on the liturgy at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland.
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