Category: Penance-Reconciliation
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Paschal Love
No one joins a club whose motto is “Each of us looks out for No. 1.”
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Pope Francis and the Cause of Liturgical Renewal
Pope Francis is fostering liturgical renewal from within the dynamic of participation.
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What does Fratelli Tutti tell us about liturgy?
Our liturgies must resonate with “the music of the Gospel.” Here are some thoughts on how we might do that — inspired by the Pope’s new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.
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Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?
Through ritual actions and prayers of repentance in times of disaster, the church is invited to offer itself in service to those most afflicted by natural calamities and to denounce, through the act of repentance, the collective sin that exacerbates those afflictions.
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Renouncing Satan and the Divine Liturgy: A Proposal
The rite draws upon the renunciation/confession baptismal foundation,
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Pope Francis on Creativity and Confession
Today’s London’s Tablet carried an interview with Pope Francis by the famous papal-biographer Austen Ivereigh. Given the social-distancing reality Ivereigh agreed to submit half a dozen written questions to the Holy Father who answered in a recording that Ivereigh translated into English. The interview is the first exclusive that Pope Francis has given to a…
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Is it time for General Absolution?
In 1862, Father William Corby probably performed the most famous instance of General Absolution in the history of the United States. According to the Wikipedia entry for the Battle of Antietam: Leading off the fourth attack of the day against the sunken road was the Irish Brigade of Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Meagher. As they…
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Deaf Access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Past and Present
Reconciliation has historically been one of the most difficult sacraments for Deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics to access and continues to be so.
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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.