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November 29, 2017 Editor Announcements

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An Autobiographical Review of J.B. Metz’s Influence on Liturgical Theology

May 31, 2016 Bruce Morrill Liturgical Spirituality Sacramental Theology

For me, J. B. Metz’s Faith in History and Society provided the key conceptualization for why the Christian religion struggles in late-modern North Atlantic societies, as well as how in this context to think afresh the relationship between liturgy and ethics, “mysticism and politics.”

The Curse of Clericalism

March 8, 2016 Paul Inwood Church Reform Eucharist Liturgical Spirituality Ordained Ministry Presiding Translation / New Missal

Nothing remarkable there; indeed, the sort of things that liturgists have talked about both informally and formally during the past 50 years.

Suggested Agenda for the CDW

September 8, 2014 Nathan Chase DDW / Holy See

Thomas Reese over at the National Catholic Reporter recently published an article titled “A suggested agenda for the new prefect for Congregation for Divine Worship.”… Reese gives some suggested agenda items for the new prefect of the CDW.

Papal Election Raises Alarm for Some Latin Mass Fans

March 25, 2013 Editor Pope Francis

“Yes, he’s the bishop of Rome, yes, he’s got a special place in the church … but people need to wean themselves off looking to him constantly and assuming that everything he does we have to do, and everything he doesn’t do, we can’t do,” Adam DeVille told NCR.

Pope Francis’ Liturgical Revolution

March 22, 2013 Anthony Ruff, OSB Church Reform Pope Francis Reform of the Reform

Pope St. Pius V, pray for us.

Francis at inaugural Mass: Pope must be servant, ‘inspired by lowly’

March 19, 2013 Editor Pope Francis

“It will be interesting to see, in this age of instant communication, whether those bishops who have begun preaching with miter and crosier will dial it all back in imitation of Pope Francis,” someone or the other said.