Christopher Lamb of The Tablet speaks with the Prefect of the CDW.
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Category: 4_THE PLAZA
From the Wires: A Cathedral for the 21st Century
Hartford’s Christ Church Cathedral unveils its newly renovated nave.
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Choose Your Poison: An Ecumenist’s Reflection on Catholic Fumblings Over Baptismal Formulas
My real point is that to justify ourselves by comparing our ideals with other traditions’ realities is and always has been a logical and rhetorical fallacy. Ideals always win out. But such wins get us nowhere.
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Heaven and Hell
We did not know whether we were in heaven or on earth.
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“Did you get your ashes?” Writing and Lecturing on Ash Wednesday
Inscribing or placing symbols directly on bodies (wedding rings, tattoos, baptismal water, chrism or oil of the sick, ashes) comprise profound performances of personal and group identity formation.
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Let us Pray for Ukraine…and for the Tyrants
Let us pray for the people of Ukraine—and let us pray that God might give a new heart and a new spirit to the People of God—and to the tyrants.
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Baptismal Formulas: Some Historical Facts
No, there is not a baptismal formula that goes back to the apostles.
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If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes … we play the game of the master of division
Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a Liturgical Congress to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical
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Is Pascha the Destiny of the Lenten Journey?
is Pascha the “destiny” of the Lenten journey?
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A Timely Tract…The Sanctimony of the Legion of Decency
It is time…to take the liturgy out of the little file boxes in which we have placed it, break the labels, and challenge the system where it needs to be challenged.
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