Carmel Pilcher, RSJ, offers this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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Tag: Inculturation
Francis, Liturgical Pope: On the Vernacular and Social Transformation
For a biologist who has famously spoken of the church as a smelly sheepfold and a field hospital, the seemingly ethereal world of language appears beyond the scope of Francis’ interest.
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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Book Review: The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions
Claudio R. Salvucci. The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions: From the Colonial Period to the Second Vatican Council. Massinahigan Series, vol. 5.
Read moreNew Traditions of Chant Workshop
Saint Meinrad and the National Pastoral Musicians are collaborating to offer a workshop, New Traditions of Chant, the evening of Sunday, February 21, 2021. Saint
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Pope Francis: The Zaire Rite, a Model for the Amazon
The Zaire Rite should absolutely be considered a prophetic model for liturgical inculturation. It is perhaps one of the best liturgical gifts given to the Church after Vatican II.
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St Jerome, “Linguistic” Hospitality and Inculturation
When it comes to matters liturgical there is often a danger to read things into the words of Pope Francis. All too often, liturgists of
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Unfamiliar Fishes – Culture – Evangelization
History shows us that human rites and religions get old patterns set very deeply in their bones—which is both a strength and weakness.
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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.
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Unity and Diversity & Patriarch Maximos IV
The Eastern Rites, and all others non-Roman rites should not be seen as “fringe-groups,” but as shining stars illuminating the ideals of a diverse Universal Church.
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