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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.

Ordering the Body: 1. Unity in Difference

November 20, 2018 Jakob K Rinderknecht Eucharist Ordained Ministry Sacramental Theology Vatican II

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”).

The Myth of Noble Simplicity

November 12, 2018 James Hadley, OblSB Art and Architecture Demographics and Sociology Liturgical Movement Vatican II

Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.

St. Benedict’s Raven

September 12, 2018 Jakob K Rinderknecht Children Church Reform Ecumenism Sacramental Theology Vatican II

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.

Paul VI on liturgical reform Part 3

August 4, 2018 Editor Pope Paul VI Vatican II

The liturgy demands faith, hope, charity, humility, repentance, pardoning offenses, intention, attention, inward and vocal expression…

Paul VI on liturgical reform Part 2

July 27, 2018 Editor Pope Paul VI Vatican II

“…to reeducate our people in their religion, to purify and revitalize their forms of worship and devotion, to restore dignity, beauty, simplicity, and good taste…”

Fun with Word Clouds

June 20, 2018 Anthony Ruff, OSB Vatican II

Trent and Vatican II, compared

Liturgy in Southbridge, MA: an audio time-capsule of post-conciliar transition

June 12, 2018 Fritz Bauerschmidt Vatican II

Recordings of liturgies at Sacred Heart Church in Southbridge, MA, ranging from 1966-1969, provide a fascinating glimpse of liturgical change in one parish.