Author: Audrey Seah
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Pedro Arrupe on Inculturation
On the feast of Pentecost in 1978, he wrote a letter to all members of the Society of Jesus about inculturation which contains a definition of inculturation that almost every contemporary work on liturgical inculturation employ or at least makes mention of.
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Will you be my VaLENTine?
We’ve all seen the diocesan responses to the Valentine’s day/ Ash Wednesday dilemma — celebrate on Shrove Tuesday, do penance on Ash Wednesday, they say. Brian Flanagan has a better both/and solution.
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The Whole is Greater than its Parts
Last week, a group of international scholars met at Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome for a three-day conference entitled, “The Whole is Greater than its Parts: Christian Unity and Interreligious Encounter today.”
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ASL Mass on CatholicTV
History was made last Tuesday when two Deaf priests, Fr. Shawn Carey of the Archdiocese of Boston and Fr. Paul Zirimenya from San Francisco concelebrated Mass in American Sign Language on CatholicTV.
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World Day of the Poor: A CRS Resource for a Eucharistic Encounter
“This Day is meant, above all, to encourage believers to react against a culture of discard and waste, and to embrace the culture of encounter.”
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Tolling Bells for Justice
Imagine an entire city of bells, ringing once every five seconds, each solemn chime as an offer of consolation for every gun shot, a symbol of dignity accorded to every life lost to injustice.
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East meets West in this Chinese-Italian Church
While it was not the original intention of the architect or the diocese, the inheritance of an Italian church by the Chinese community gave rise to a space that is a mix of both East and West, bearing witness to the global church today against the temptation of nativism.
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The Anamnetic Power of Clothing at Asian Youth Day
2000+ youth and young adults gathered in Yogyakarta, Indonesia last week to celebrate Asian Youth Day. This year’s theme is “Joyful Asian Youth! Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia.”
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New Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities
Just two days ago, the USCCB voted on revised Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities at their semi-annual meeting.