Category: Pope Benedict XVI
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Reconciliation Born of the Cross and Forged in Fire
“Bless His Holiness Pope Francis who inspired by the Cross of Nails, bears witness to the grace and truth of your crucified and risen Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. . .” – Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Catholic worship has been transformed — over two centuries
A Benedictine monk describes how Catholic worship in Britain changed through 175 years
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On Popes and Synod Majorities
And then the synod proposal went to Pope Benedict … who did nothing with it.
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The Pope’s Painful Liturgies?
I guess I don’t see Pope Francis joyless in celebrating the liturgy. He seems to me to be serious and prayerful.
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Damian Thompson on the Changing Catholic Blogosphere
Say a prayer for Pray Tell, woudja? And for everyone who blogs about church and liturgy, whatever label you might attach to them.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Sacred Music
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI recently offered some intriguing reflections on sacred music, including on his own experiences. Post-Vatican II developments come in for some predictable critiques. But some of Benedict’s reflections also strike me as quite beautiful (such as his thoughts on music being born out three key experiences: the experience of love, of suffering…
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Whither Confirmation?
The “age of confirmation” in the dioceses of the United States at present is 7 to 16. This isn’t a coherent vision.
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Communion Procession Blessings Revisited
There has been a recent highly-placed endorsement of the practice of blessing non-communicants at communion time.
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German Church Historian Fears “Antipope” Benedict
The professor of church history in Munster calls for a clearer distinction between pope and “pope emeritus.”