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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Matthew Schmitz’s op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria,” raises a number of questions.
Read moreMichael Paulson at the New York Times wrote an interesting article last week on the shift in tone among the U.S. bishops.
Read more“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 more“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 moreWith 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 moreYou don’t have to be mad to translate, but it probably helps.
Read moreAn 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 moreby Jack Rakosky
Why are people interested in nuns? Why are we “all nuns”?
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 moreEven 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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