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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“What We’re Reading”
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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As has been the case in most summers, my list of books to read was more ambitious than realistic.
Read moreReligious Sisters Didn’t Really Do Anything Anyway?
At a conference this summer, I had the pleasure of hearing a Catholic historian, a theologian, and a sociologist discuss Margaret M. McGuinness’ recent book, Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America (NYU Press, 2013). The variety of perspectives on the panel reflects the variety of lenses with which the history of American religious women must be viewed.
Read moreSpirit & Song: Earning “Hymnal” Status
OCP continues to reach out to youth and young adults through Spirit & Song, and this division aims to provide a hardbound, enduring hymnal to update an already-successful endeavor.
Read moreViewpoint: New Bible Translation – The Message – Is a Notable Achievement
I recommend highly The Message: Catholic/Ecumenical Edition, and find it very helpful for reading alongside The New American Bible, with which we are familiar from the liturgy.
Read moreBook Review: Kenyan edition of The Liturgy of the Hours
In November 2012 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ assembly decided to prepare a new edition of the Liturgy of the Hours…In this context, I think that it would be worthwhile to examine a recent revision of the 1975 U.S. Liturgy of the Hours that has recently been published in Africa.
Read morePhyllis Zagano, Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches – Part 2
“I have been asked to express my opinion about the possibility that the church, if it judges it appropriate, would be able to confer on women the sacrament of order in the diaconal grade.”
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