On April 28, 2020, the basic reproduction number of the coronavirus in Germany is 1.0, in Austria 0.6. These are very good news, and both
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Category: Vatican II
Vatican asks bishops to review use of pre-Vatican II mass
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has sent a letter to presidents of the national episcopal conferences asking each bishop in the world
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Gerard Sloyan, a symposium and some sad news
Father Gerard Sloyan dies at age 100. A symposium to celebrate his legacy will be held at the Catholic University of America on March 4, 2020.
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Liturgy 0, Popular Piety 1
Whether the Way of the Cross should be held on March 25 or not.
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More Important Than It Looks
What was your experience the Sunday of the Word of God like? Does it make you confident that this observance will take hold? What are your hopes for next year’s celebration?
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Ecclesial Customs and Memory
I suddenly understood why the community so loves to stop for Dairy Queen.
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Brief Book Review: The Catholic Church in a Changing World
[A] very successful and balanced effort to connect [a] variety of topics to the Council’s treatment of the Church in two key constitutions.
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Ordering the Body: 1. Unity in Difference
The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).
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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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