Author: Bruce Morrill
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Brief Book Review: Reclaiming Vatican II
A young priest strives for a centrist reading
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“Did you get your ashes?” Writing and Lecturing on Ash Wednesday
Inscribing or placing symbols directly on bodies (wedding rings, tattoos, baptismal water, chrism or oil of the sick, ashes) comprise profound performances of personal and group identity formation.
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Max Johnson Awarded at 2022 NAAL Annual Meeting
As my colleague Mark Roosien recently reported, at their early-January meeting the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) bestowed on Maxwell E. Johnson the Berakah Award. Since 1976, NAAL has conferred the award annually on “a member of the Academy to honor distinguished contribution to the professional work of liturgy.” With the pandemic having forced…
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Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam: The Glorification of God and Sanctification of People
Following our founders’ tradition, we Jesuits regularly mark our writings with the phrase Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam. But can we human creatures really add anything to the divine glory?
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NAAL 2020 Annual Meeting: Notable Moments and a First in Atlanta
The Rev. Dr. Gennifer Brooks became the first black scholar to assume the presidency of the North American Academy of Liturgy.
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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
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Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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Liturgy in a Time of Ecclesial Crisis: Addressing Trauma, Shame, and Abuse
Grappling with suffering due to ecclesial and civic irresponsibility, probing how liturgical and ministerial polity can prove of help or hindrance
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Newest Issue of Liturgy: Confession & Reconciliation
From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing: