Category: Liturgy and Virtues
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If I Summoned Him and He Answered Me …
What if we too were allowed to ask, accuse, even bring charges against God? Allowed to do so in court and receive a different answer than Job? To bring a more comprehensive indictment than theological expertise has long considered conceivable?
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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On Being Community
As a Church, it is our job to be the Body of Christ. Working at being community is part of our mission.
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Awareness, Wisdom, Will: A “Culture of Care”–in Liturgy
Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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Mercy is the Problem
During my undergraduate days at The Catholic University of America, I was very fortunate to take an upper level christology course, “Jesus as the Christ,” from William Loewe, ordinary professor of historical and systematic theology. The course has stayed with me all these years since, even into my own doctoral studies. In one of the…
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The Alarming Consequences of Communion
Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric. First, a virulent microbe continues to resist being contained. Second, compounding the presence and impact of said microbe, is the acutely tragic realization of our ignorance of the all too…
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Corona Pandemic and Oikonomia
How we analyze others amidst the corona pandemic.
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The Liturgy of the Mall
How do we understand the ways in which habitual participation in Christian liturgy forms us?
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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.