Category: Popular Piety
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Love, Fraternity, and Care for Our Common Home
NATHANIEL MARX — In his last testament, Pope Francis left a prayer for our hearts.
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A Love that Gives Itself as Drink
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis urges us to draw consolation for our wounded hearts from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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This Is the Heart that Has Loved So Greatly
NATHANIEL MARX — Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is popular among Catholics, but it concerns the whole human race.
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The Importance of the Heart
NATHANIEL MARX — Symbolism is the heart of Pope Francis’s teaching about the heart in Dilexit Nos.
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Dilexit Nos and the Heart of Worship
NATHANIEL MARX — The sacramental encounter with God’s saving love is the heart of the late pontiff’s message, and the heart of Jesus is the central symbol of the church’s mission to circulate God’s love more widely.
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Nigerian Bishops’ Liturgy Letter
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — On August 15, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria published a letter “On Abuses in Liturgical Celebrations.” The letter is addressed to “all Catholic priests in Nigeria”…
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Book Review: Remove the Pews
“Contrary to the trend among some to sell off or completely redo sacred spaces, Schaper insists that they have deep roots in neighborhoods, in families, in peoples hearts even if they do not regularly attend services in them.”
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Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions
“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”
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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.”