Month: April 2010

  • Missal Musings

    A friend in a diocesan office muses about how the implementation will go.

  • Water for the Rumor Mill

    Some buzz out there, nothing confirmed, that the recognitio of the newly translated English missal could come this week.

  • Earth Day 2010

    Words from Pope Benedict and Patriarch Bartholomew on the environment.

  • Sigh. UPDATED 4/24

    New record for the number of Catholics leaving the church in Austria within a quarter.

  • A Plea to the Publishers

    Roman Catholics are sometimes surprised to walk into churches of the catholic-but-not-Catholic traditions and find Gather Comprehensive II, Journeysongs, Spirit & Song, and We Celebrate in the pews… My point is this: keep the old settings around, at least for a while — and make them easily accessible on your websites and in your catalogues:…

  • Grail for $ale – UPDATE 4/23

    It is a problem, I think, when you have to pay a publisher and a monastery to use the Church’s official text.

  • Of Baptism, Belonging, and Being Ashamed

    As someone who has had her own struggles with the Vatican, its offices, and its highest ecclesial court (over teaching appointments at Catholic Faculties), I experience the current crisis in ecclesial governance and leadership as nothing particularly new. What sustained me then continues to sustain me now: the insight that my baptismal belonging to this…

  • Ruminating

    Different ideas about liturgical inculturation sometimes take a lot of chewing before they can be digested together.

  • “Do not be unbelieving, but believing”

    Anyone up for a bit of calm, soothing Gregorian chant in the midst of it all?? Here’s “Mitte manum” from Second Sunday of Easter.