Category: Pope Francis
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From the Wires: The Church’s Authority to Revise and Suppress Preconciliar Rites
Pope Francis is right: it is necessary to return to a single, unified Roman Rite and leave the “Traditional Latin Mass” in the past. And our personal liturgical preferences have absolutely no bearing on the matter. As conservatives have grown fond of saying, truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
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Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Desiderio Desideravi and Pope Francis’ Ecclesial Vision
The liturgy at its heart is a spiritual technology: rehearsing and nourishing the path to and through God’s reign marked by communion, participation, and mission.
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Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition
Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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The Council Daybook, October 11, 1962
We are invited to find unity within our Western Church, as sons and daughters of Peter, and with all Christians, as daughters and sons of Mary.
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From the Wires: Traditionalist Flights of Fancy
“It’s long past time that Catholics of all stripes came together to work through the issues that divide us. But it will never happen without a dose of realism.”
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Commentary on Desiderio desideravi
Pope Francis’s apostolic letter on liturgical formation, Desiderio desideravi, is full of interesting “prompts” for our reflection. Here are a few.
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One Flock, Walking Together
“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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September 1: Praying “In the Great Cathedral of Creation”
Rather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
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50,000 Syro-Malabar Christians Protest in Favor of Versus Populum
Yesterday’s Times of India reports that 50.000 Syro-Malabar Christians of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church took to the streets to protest in favor of celebrating the Eucharist in the versus populum orientation and in protest of the removal of their archbishop, Mar Antony Kariyil CMI. This is undoubtedly a very convoluted…