Matthew Schmitz’s op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria,” raises a number of questions.
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Tag: New York Times
Shift in Tone among U.S. Bishops
Michael Paulson at the New York Times wrote an interesting article last week on the shift in tone among the U.S. bishops.
Read moreNYT: What Do You Look for in Modern Translation?
“Every text is, to some extent, a bafflement to its translator, because every language, like every writer, has characteristics that can’t be ‘carried across’ — which is what ‘translate’ means — into another tongue, another culture.”
Read moreSpiritual Housecleaning
“I’m going to push these walls out energetically,” she said, pivoting like a ballerina in an old-fashioned music box. “I usually do this in small rooms, or those with low ceilings. In New York, it’s a very big deal.”
Read moreNYT: U.S. Catholics in Poll See a Church Out of Touch
With cardinals now in Rome preparing to elect Benedict’s successor, the poll indicated that the church’s hierarchy had lost the confidence and allegiance of many American Catholics. They like their priests and nuns, but many feel that the bishops and cardinals do not understand their lives.
Read moreThe Treachery of Translators
You don’t have to be mad to translate, but it probably helps.
Read moreGeneration LGBTQIA — In Church and at Worship?
An interesting article in Thursday’s New York Times about the new generation of gender activists, who define themselves beyond the older LGBT categories and name themselves as queer or gender-nonconforming, etc.
Read moreWhy We Are All Nuns: Catholic Pride; Universal Call to Holiness
by Jack Rakosky
Why are people interested in nuns? Why are we “all nuns”?
Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is On the Program
From the New York Times: Spirituality is infusing classical music programming, from a special festival in Salzburg, Austria, to Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.
Read moreReligion and the Social Crisis
Even in their weakened state, our religious institutions offer a more plausible mechanism than most other professions for seeding middle America with the talented and energetic.
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