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Month: April 2011

  • Good Friday: Jesus’ Death on the Cross as Birthing?

    In the Christian tradition, there is an intriguing strand that images Jesus’ death on the cross as birthing, that is to say, the Crucified is seen as a woman in the travail of childbirth.

  • Weary from Within

    [T]here are also aspects of the inner life of the Church that are helping to making us weary. Many Catholics are working against Vatican II by criticising it and distancing themselves from it; by working against ecumenism and the liturgical reform.

  • Everett A. Diederich, r.i.p.

    Father Everett A. Diederich, S.J., 1920 – 2011, died on Wednesday. He was scholar in residence and chaplain to the staff of the Stroble Center for Liturgy in St. Louis.

  • An Austrian bishop on intercommunion, celibacy

    “If non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.” “I can imagine an opening up regarding celibacy.”

  • Soliloquies of the Passion

    Reflect on the events of Christ’s Passion with this triptych of meditations by Pray Tell reader Jeff Rexhausen.

  • Bishop Paprocki authorizes St. Michael Prayer after Masses

    Bishop Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois announced Tuesday that the public recitation of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel can be prayed by the faithful after the dismissal and before the recession.

  • Generosity of Spirit

    There are ways, when we design or re-design our liturgical spaces, in which buildings set aside for Christian worship might be made more hospitable to all seekers after God, particularly to those of other Abrahamic faiths… This is a corrective of vital importance in this age when extremism threatens to engulf all three Abrahamic religions,…

  • Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, Cardinal Wuerl, and Fr. Raymond Brown

    We’re at an impasse. Frankly, I don’t see a way forward. What needs to happen to move us toward a better future, where our Bishops are our leaders and guides and even heroes? I certainly want that. I want our Bishops to teach authoritatively and credibly.

  • American Seminarians Pack Stational Liturgy in Rome

    “I said ‘Bravo, let’s put this on steroids. Let’s make this part of our college Lenten spiritual regimen,'” [Archbishop Timothy] Dolan said Thursday from New York. “It’s an act of penance. Is there anything colder, damper than taking off on a dark Roman morning … to walk a half hour to a church? That’s what…