Category: Pope Francis
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Only “inculturated” Roman Missal since Vatican II
Vatican News has an article on Pope Francis and the Missel Romain pour les Diocèses du Zaïre. This is in the context of his cancelled trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo Where he was due to travel in July. The Vatican Publishing House is publishing a book (in French) about this edition of the…
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The new Prefect of Divine Liturgy and Sacraments speaks.
In a a wide-ranging interview with Vatican News interview Cardinal-elect Arthur Roche, the new prefect of the DDWDS, discusses, among other issues, the lack of ‘religiosity’ surrounding Sundays in the West. The interview lead-in speaks of the “beauty” of the liturgy – though the topic is never addressed in the interview, at least explicitly. The…
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Pope Francis to Sicilian clerics: Take off your grandmother’s lace.
In an audience with bishops and priests of Sicily on 9 June 2022, Pope Francis told the clerics to stop wearing their “grandmother’s lace”, saying he had “seen the photos”. The Vatican Bollettino – An English language rundown and commentary on CRUX. Living in Palermo I must say that the charge seems a bit overwrought.…
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Brief Book Review: Catholic Discordance
“Borghesi convincingly presents the hostile efforts of American neoconservative Catholics to undermine the mission of Pope Francis.”
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Pope Francis and the ever new amazement of active participation
This morning the Pope met with the students and teachers of the Pontifical Liturgy Institute. So far the text of his discourse is only available in Italian. Unsurprisingly the early coverage (for example here and here) is on the Holy Father’s comments on how liturgical renewal “scandalized closed-minded people,” where he compares the rejection in…
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There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR
The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.
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“Extraordinary Form” returns – Updated
UPDATED: The term is a mistake which will be connected.
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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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If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes … we play the game of the master of division
Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a Liturgical Congress to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions within the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches In his opening remarks, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, encouraged participants “to avoid solitary escapes…