Category: Popular Piety
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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.”
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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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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Gaudete Sunday versus the Third Sunday of Advent
Today the Church celebrates the Third Sunday of Advent. This Sunday has traditionally been given the title Gaudete Sunday. This title comes from the first word of the Entrance Antiphon, which reads: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near. This retains the first word from the older introit,…
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The Advents of our year…
Advent is complicated.
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At the End of the Sky
When we speak about inculturation in the liturgy, we tend to think of the Zaire Rite or the situation in the Amazonian Region. However, we cannot limit discussions on inculturation to other places – it is also necessary in regions where Christianity has been present for a longer time and is more established. Indeed, a…
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Popular Piety: Holy Cards
Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.