Author: Other Voices
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Ars Praedicandi: 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — I also never learned how to perform an exorcism. Maybe that’s because just when I would have been eligible to receive the order of exorcist – yep, there was one – Pope Paul VI eliminated it in 1972.
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Brief Book Review: Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe
RHODA SCHULER — “…the editor claims that “scholarship on the Protestant reformations have come to a watershed moment,” arguing “that the lives and works of women have a place in the shaping of the field” (xxiv), and the majority of scholars writing about women reformers in this volume are women.”
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Ars Praedicandi: 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Augustine wisely notes that Hope has two beautiful daughters Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are And Courage to see that they do not remain that way.
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In This Issue: Doxology 34.3 (Ordinary Time 2023)
A brief note on the content of Doxology 34, vol. 3. Doxology is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of liturgical scholarship bridging academic and church communities. It is published by the Order of Saint Luke.
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Ars Praedicandi: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Ed Foley
And so, while it is New Year’s, the Feast of the Circumcision, and the Naming of Jesus, the Church celebrates none of those.
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Brief Book Review: The Eucharist in Four Dimensions
In the end, Martin makes us look long and hard about the bread and wine, all the words and gestures, the participants, the choreography ancient, later modified by reformers, and the contemporary efforts at making it relevant.
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Ars Praedicandi: 2nd Sunday of Advent, Ed Foley
Admittedly, it is an evangelical understatement to suggest that he is not an especially attractive character.
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Ars Praedicandi: Thanksgiving Day, Ed Foley
Next to Christmas, Thanksgiving is the most popular and one of the most expensive of the holidays that we celebrate in the US.
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Ars Praedicandi: 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
While Matthew is not J. K. Rowling, he does have a keen eye for the preposterous and absurd. I think today’s outrageous story is an example of that.