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Brief Book Review: Passions of the Soul
MICHAEL PLEKON — “What follows is not at all a โhow to do itโ course, the sharing of particular practices for moving toward freedom. Rather Williams takes us to the traditional list of the passions that enslave us and from which we need to detach, literally become apathetic–letting go of the pathos in each.”
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Rita Ferrone outlines the significance of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (the RCIA), and how it has a ripple effect that goes beyond the catechumens in the parish.
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Ars Praedicandi: Marriage, Sacrament of Trinitarian Unity
KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER — Godโs unity does not only overcome differences, but makes them possible.
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Amen Corner: Is Liturgy Simply “a Given” in a Synodal Church?
CARMEL PILCHER — “A comprehensive liturgical renewalโone that includes all the baptized, the Body of Christโis urgent.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Trinity Sunday
ED FOLEY — My poetic muse for this morning is not Crosby Stills Nash and Young, nor Hegel, Kant or some other philosopher, but instead the theory of the Big Bang.
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Pope Francis says โnoโ to women deacons?
KATHARINE E. HARMON — We assume that because the Pope says โno,โ we must take our ideological corners and judge what the Church โisโ or โis not.โย
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Dr. Simone Brosig discusses beauty and aesthetics in the liturgy for the Australian Catholic University’s podcast series.
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A Sacramental Vision
TIMOTHY BRUNK — If matter cannot mediate God, then the Incarnation founders.

