Moderators

• Nathan Chase, PhD: Nathan Chase earned his doctorate in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame. He is Assistant Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis. His research focuses on liturgical history, sacramental theology, Christian initiation, anaphoral history, and liturgical inculturation. His most recent book is The Anaphoral Tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus,’ and he has published scholarly articles in Ecclesia Orans, Studia Liturgica, Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft, and Worship.
• Katharine E. Harmon – Katharine E. Harmon earned her doctorate in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame. She teaches at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, IN. Her research focuses on American Catholic liturgical renewal in the twentieth century, and she is the author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Liturgical Press, 2013), and Mary and the Liturgical Year, forthcoming from LTP. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Catholic Studies, Worship, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Studia Liturgica. She is a member and past convener within the North American Academy of Liturgy, and has served as a musician in Roman Catholic and Protestant parishes for more than 25 years.

Blog Assistant

• Peter Brown

Editorial Advisory Committee

• Nathan Chase – Nathan Chase earned his doctorate in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis. His research focuses on liturgical history, sacramental theology, Christian initiation, anaphoral history, and liturgical inculturation. His most recent book is The Anaphoral Tradition in the ‘Barcelona Papyrus,’ and he has published scholarly articles in Ecclesia Orans, Studia Liturgica, Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft, and Worship.
• Rita Ferrone – Rita Ferrone, a contributor to the blog since its inception, is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of worship and the arts for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
• Katharine E. Harmon – Katharine E. Harmon earned her doctorate in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame, teaches at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, IN. Her research focuses on American Catholic liturgical renewal in the twentieth century, and she is the author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Liturgical Press, 2013), and Mary and the Liturgical Year, forthcoming from LTP. Her scholarly articles have appeared in American Catholic Studies, Worship, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Studia Liturgica. She is a member and past convener within the North American Academy of Liturgy, and has served as a musician in Roman Catholic and Protestant parishes for more than 25 years.
• Anthony Ruff, OSB:  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at the College of Saint Benedict / St. John’s University – School of Theology and Seminary. He is the founder of the National Catholic Youth Choir. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He is organist and director of music at Saint John’s Abbey.

Past Editor

• Anthony Ruff, OSB:  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at the College of Saint Benedict / St. John’s University – School of Theology and Seminary. He is the founder of the National Catholic Youth Choir. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He is organist and director of music at Saint John’s Abbey.