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Lazarus is a Little Boy from Burma
Just as the rich man longed for Lazarus to dip his finger in cool water, the little boy’s tears began trickling into my consciousness; sitting on my organ bench, I began to wonder not “how could someone ignore the suffering in their midst,” but how “could I ignore the suffering in my midst?”
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Archbishop Welby Tells the Pope a Good Liturgy Joke
That’s not funny.
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Viewpoint: On Praying the Psalms on Behalf of the World
What does it mean to pray this Psalm when life is experienced as positive, fulfilled, and happy, and the supplicant has a strong sense of the closeness of God? – M. Francis Mannion
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Did the Presider Face East in the Early Church?
In the absence of explicit evidence, history is unable to settle the matter.
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Greg Kandra on Homilies: Keep it simple, already!
You would think some of these guys had never heard a homily before.
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Reconciliation Born of the Cross and Forged in Fire
“Bless His Holiness Pope Francis who inspired by the Cross of Nails, bears witness to the grace and truth of your crucified and risen Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. . .” – Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Cardinal Sarah on Silence
Some wanted everything in the liturgy to be immediately intelligible, rational, horizontal and human.
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“Christa” – The Female Christ on the Cross – is Back!
When it first went up at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in 1984, “all hell broke lose.” It was taken down. And now…
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More on Liturgical Shaming
We Catholics need to have more reverence – not just for the ritual and its proper execution, but for one another.
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