Fr. Michael Plekon reviews The Congregation in a Secular Age, the third installment of Andrew Root’s series titled Ministry in a Secular Age.
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Category: Secularism
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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Instead of going back, can we press forward?
Germany’s defense minister calls on Church to abolish priestly celibacy and ordain women to the diaconate
The National Catholic Reporter is carrying a story that Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a member of the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Germany’s current defense minister,
Read moreHelp with summer program on “The Essentials of Catholic Liturgy”
I am honored to have been asked to be a presenter for a third-track program co-sponsored by Liturgy Training Publications and the National Association of
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Can we give up Christmas this Advent?
The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.
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Sacred, Secular and Cell Phones
The fundamental issue in my classroom was a split between profane (how one uses cell phone) and sacred (God-stuff).
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Rituals for Secular People
The Atlantic has a piece that discusses the “Ritual Design Lab” in Silicon valley that will design rituals for births, deaths, and everything in between.
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At Night There Are Tears, but Joy Comes with Dawn: Lord’s Day Reflections on a Shrinking Church
Where will we be in 10 years if this continues??
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Our Catholic Future Lies Within the Secular
The future of the Catholic Church doesn’t only lie in the walls the church, we must learn from our secular society how to love God outside of the chapel.
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