Author: Fritz Bauerschmidt
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The Sign of Peace and Popular Culture
The Sign of Peace is making an appearance in some surprising corners of popular culture.
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Communion Under Both Species: Anecdotal Demographic Observations
Who receives from the cup and why?
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Eucharist, Polls, and Symbols
A recent Pew Research Center survey shows that less than a third of U.S. Catholics believe that in the Eucharist bread and wine “become the actual body and blood of Christ.” On the other hand, 69% say that the bread and wine “are symbols of the body and blood of Christ.” Roughly half of those…
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Ad Orientem in Gallup NM
The Cathedral in Gallup turns things around.
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On the Night He Was Betrayed, He Took Off His Helmet…
The first Mass at Notre Dame since the fire.
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The Beauty of Modernist Church Buildings
The photographs of Thibaud Poirier reveal the beauty of modern churches.
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Taking the Lectionary to Task
Lest we liturgical-types get smug over how our lectionaries keep us from only preaching on our favorite passages, Sarah Hinkley Wilson offers a salty assessment of some of the weaknesses of most lectionaries. I don’t necessarily agree with all her criticisms, but she provides food for thought and some proposed work-arounds (not all of which…
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Sacred Ground
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has recently started a program called The Ministry of the 14th Station: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb, which is a response to the growing phenomenon of people having the remains of their loved ones cremated and then never getting around to burying them. The announcement of this ministry notes: Since…
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Suffering the Little Children
Do small children belong at Mass?