Category: Viewpoint
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Viewpoint: Liturgy is Work, Not ‘Fun’ or Entertainment
Worship demands sacrifice, dedication, and costly commitment. But liturgy is not fun!
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Viewpoint: All Saints’ Day Includes Every Man and Woman of Good Will
“For the church is, and has always been, a net that has caught all sorts of fish. She is, and has always been, a strange combination of the drab and the magnificent, the squalid and the heroic, the shabby and the beautiful.”
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Viewpoint: Scriptural Stations of the Cross Need to Be Promoted
I am not suggesting that every church change its Stations from the traditional to the scriptural overnight—but perhaps over time this could be achieved.
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Viewpoint: Are There Cats (and Other Animals) in Heaven?
It not a big leap to say that animals are not irrelevant to the life of heaven, indeed that cats—and other animals—belong in heaven.
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Viewpoint: The Most Enlightened, Unambiguous, Courageous, Ecumenical, and Silliest Recent News
Writing a regular column like “Viewpoint” requires me to collect oodles of news and feature items from a variety of sources. Here are five to which I cannot devote whole columns, but which deserve mention nevertheless.
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Viewpoint: Unsympathetic Confessors Abuse the Sacrament and Turn People Off
The Catechism states : “The confessor is not the master of God’s forgiveness, but its servant. The minister of this sacrament … should have a proven knowledge of Christian behavior, experience of human affairs, respect and sensitivity toward the one who has fallen…”
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Viewpoint: Are Angels on the Catholic Endangered Species List?
In the Church’s liturgy, the Christian belief in angels finds its fullest expression. – Msgr. M. Francis Mannion
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Viewpoint: Some Myths about Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reform
“Much criticism of post-Vatican II liturgical reform is historically ill-informed, out of touch with the pastoral benefits that came from Vatican II, and often ends up subtlety questioning the very legitimacy of the Council itself.” – M. Francis Mannion
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Viewpoint: On Ascension Day the Whole Church Ascends to Heaven
Ascension day is not something that happened only to Christ long ago, but is a reality that occurs in the community of Christians in a permanent and ongoing manner.