Category: Secularism
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Our Catholic Future Lies Within the Secular
The future of the Catholic Church doesn’t only lie in the walls the church, we must learn from our secular society how to love God outside of the chapel.
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Liturgy and Secularism: Utterly Human
Attempts to revise liturgy to address a given issue can redirect Liturgy and send the assembly to another place other than the Kingdom of God, when the assembly’s destiny is Christ’s table.
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Wedding Officiating for “Nones”
What to do when your non-religiously-affiliated friends ask you to officiate at their wedding.
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More beauty, less God?
“Cathedrals don’t bang on about God in cathedrals but they bang on about beauty and that’s why I love them.” –Simon Jenkins
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Scientific Research: Worship Is Healthy
“Our findings support the overall hypothesis that increased religiosity – as determined by attendance at worship services – is associated with less stress and enhanced longevity.”
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Liturgy as Evangelization
If liturgy isn’t for the unchurched at some level, then whom are we evangelizing?
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Alternative Facts on Vatican II
After the Second Vatican Council, church attendance numbers in Germany declined. It is frequently maintained that there is a causal connection between the two. But is this really true?
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Anointing of the Sick and Consumerism
Last fall, I offered a reflection on anointing of the sick. Here, I follow up with some additional reflection on anointing in a secularized society characterized by consumerism.