Month: November 2012
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Robert Mickens on “The Vatican Implosion”
“I define The Vatican Implosion as the collapse of an entire system, a structure, an ethos, a culture if you will, of global church governance. It’s the crumbling of what’s as close to an absolute monarchy as anything that ever existed in the world…”
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Blog Down for Maintenance Friday
The blog will be down Friday while server maintenance is done.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 16
After decreeing that teachers of liturgy in seminaries and their equivalents be appropriately prepared for their work in article 15, the Council Fathers in article 16 discuss the place that liturgical studies should occupy in these institutions of higher learning.
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Table Graces
What are your favorite table graces?
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Moving Roman Catholics and Episcopalians a bit further apart
The only blended Catholic/Episcopal parish in the US must change its worship practice.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 15
It might be of interest to trace how seminaries and other institutes of formation for pastoral leadership have responded to this decree of the Council over the last fifty years.
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Dissent, disposition, and Confirmation
Should a confirmand’s non-theological or non-liturgical convictions bar him or her from receiving the sacrament of confirmation?
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Liturgical Life in the U.S.: Questions about Diversity
“How is liturgical life in the U.S. shaped by — and attentive to — the multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural context in which it takes place? Which specific formats and experiences have proven valuable? How sensitive and open are Catholic worship services to so-called minorities (imagined and real?). And what might the global church — and specifically…
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How to Fry an Egg in Liturgical English
…and with thy worthy and venerable hands take one egg and gently and delicately break into the warmed fruit of the olive…