Category: DDW / Holy See
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I Want to Speak with the Manager: A Conversation with Archbishop Roche
Christopher Lamb of The Tablet speaks with the Prefect of the CDW.
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Clarifications and a Wake-Up Call Concerning Traditionis Custodes
The motu proprio has outlined “the direction in which we wish to move.”
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New Rite for the Institution of Catechists — Initial Observations
“Catechesis is the echo of the Word of God” — Pope Francis
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Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood
The Vatican has announced a Theological Symposium on vocations, to be held in Rome on February 17-19, 2022. Entitled “Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood,” this three-day session will be open to the public, but is especially oriented toward bishops and all those — men and women — who are “interested in theology,” according…
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More Revisions to 1962 Extraordinary Form Roman Missal
Pray Tell reported earlier this month how Pope Francis issued a Decree to add the memorial of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus to General Roman Calendar and also add new optional memorials of Hildegard, Gregory of Narek, and John of Avila. Gloria.tv, a “non-profit international Catholic social network and a video / news sharing platform ……
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CDW Note on the Sunday of the Word of God
Today the daily Bulletin of the Holy See’s Press Office contains a Note of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on the Sunday of the Word of God. This comes more than a year after Pope Francis published Aperuit Illis, a motu proprio instituting the Sunday of the Word of…
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Vatican approves ban on Communion on the Tongue
On December 11, Catholic News Agency published a story on the Vatican upholding Bishop Richard F. Stika decision “to suspend reception of Holy Communion on the tongue at public Masses throughout the Diocese of Knoxville for the duration of the public health emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic.” In a letter from the Congregation for…
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The New Directory for Catechesis
What does the new Directory for Catechesis have to say about liturgy? How do we understand that liturgy and catechesis “belong to one another”?
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Divine Mercy negotiations UPDATED 5/18
This morning a letter from the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was released. It was addressed to the Polish Episcopal Conference to mark the 100th anniversary of John Paul II’s birth. It should be no surprise that it mentioned John Paul II’s love of the Divine Mercy devotion. This devotion was popularized by St. Faustina Kowalska,…