Category: Secularism
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Love for Love
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis says the best way to receive love from the heart of Jesus is to spread it.
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Preaching and the Political, Part 3: Christ the King
BRUCE MORRILL – The liturgical year is reaching its culmination, as has the U.S. political cycle. Preaching on Christ the King in the wake of Election Day invites consideration of this feast’s modern origin and present implications.
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Book Review: When Church Stops Working
A specially designed, shorter text, aimed at reaching ordinary people, clergy as well as lay, in serious reading and reflection on the local church, namely the parish.
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Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith
A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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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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Book Review: The Church after Innovation
For Root, the wholehearted adoption by the church of an ethic of innovation and entrepreneurship goes against everything the church is.
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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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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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Brief Book Review: Beyond Four Walls
Richard Geoffrey Leggett reviews Beyond Four Walls.