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“Re-Launching the Project of the Council”
Bishop Long of Parramatta in Australia sees in the Second Vatican Council a new paradigm. Re-launching the Council means that “it is time not of fearful retreat, disengagement and self-referential pomp, but of accompaniment and engagement.”
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Ritual Words in an Age of Drivel
I wonder how our instinctual distrust of the words spoken by so many people public figures colors the way most people hear the words spoken in and by the Church.
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Ad Orientem Worship from the Deaf Perspective – Part II
I propose that ad Christum replace the terms versus populum and ad orientem as it describes the doctrinal and liturgical principle that the Church has retained throughout history more accurately.
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The Worst Reasons for Ad Orientem
I was invited by The Catholic Herald to make the case against ad orientem. But I can’t do that, for I’m not opposed to this practice and I have celebrated Mass that way myself on a few occasions. What I am opposed to is the way some people advocate for it.
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Getting Rid of Comments?
First Catholic Herald, and now National Public Radio.
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Ad Orientem Worship from the Deaf Perspective
Part I – The Deaf Experience
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Martin Stuflesser on the Orientation of the Presider
All in all, one wishes that both forms of orientation of the celebration would retain their legitimate value and their validity for the celebration of Mass in the Roman rite, and that, on the far side of ideologically overheated discourse, a way can be found to a peaceful coexistence of both forms of orientation of…
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Viewpoint: Bishop Robert Barron a Great Gift to the Church
Barron has lamented what he calls the “beige Catholicism” that developed after Vatican II (not because of Vatican II!). By this he meant a watered-down understanding of Catholicism that lacked conviction and was minimalistic in content and tone. “Beige Catholicism” sadly led to a colorless style of catechesis and liturgical practice.
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