“For several years now, I’ve suspected that my entire generation had vanished from Catholicism.”
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Rita Ferrone on “Washing Feet”
At Commonweal.
Read moreThe Monks and the Modernist: What the Benedictines Built at Collegeville
Marcel Breuer would have been proud. So would Baldwin Dworschak. And maybe even St. Benedict as well. Breuer, the New York Bauhaus-trained architect, and Dworschak, the far-sighted abbot of a Benedictine monastery in rural Minnesota, were the central figures in a unique collaboration that produced one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century religious architecture, the acclaimed St. John’s Abbey and University Church.
Read moreFormally equivalent Christmas cookies
May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
Read moreLatin nouns, missed opportunities
I begin to think our people, pastors, poets, and theologians should humbly collaborate on a new missal, not only a better translation of the Missale Romanum but also on an inculturated sacramentary. Shall we at least pray about this?
Read moreEduardo Peñalver on the Missal’s rollout …
From Commonweal.
Read moreThe Martyrdom of a Lovely Language
Part 3 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series on the new translation.
“We are being told something by this new missal and we had better understand: ‘Your language doesn’t matter. Nobody’s living language matters. Latin matters.'”
The Case in Phoenix
Pray Tell contributor Rita Ferrone has written wisely on the dotCommonweal blog about “The Case in Phoenix.” I’ll soon be adding a few comments here
Read moreVatican II Limericks
You’ve read reports from the Second Vatican Council before, but never quite like these!
Read morePerpetually 1962?
“According to [the April 2011 instruction from Ecclesia Dei], liturgical decrees issued since 1962 which are not compatible with the liturgical books then in use are not binding on Tridentine celebrations.” It’s perpetually 1962 for the Extraordinary Form, in other words.
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