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German lay leader on authority, falsely understood
When leadership comes under pressure, it falls into authoritarian models.
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Viewpoint: Lay and Ordained Ministries
The priest is more than a managerial functionary. He is called to the vocation of “ordering” the sacramental life of the parish
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CDF Prefect on the Priesthood Crisis
Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller has lamented a Protestantization of the image of the Catholic priest
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Non Solum: When to Use the Sprinkling Rite
The Roman Missal allows for the substitution of the sprinkling rite for the Penitential Act on Sundays throughout the year, but especially at Easter, as a reminder of baptism.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 62
Art. 62 makes the transition from the theoretical foundations found in arts. 59-61 to the subsequent practical decrees for the revision of the celebration of sacraments other than the Eucharist and of the sacramentals.
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Book Review: Praying and Believing in Early Christianity: The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine by Maxwell E. Johnson
Classically the field of Liturgical Studies is divided into three subsets: history, theology, and praxis. This work is unique among historians of liturgy because it explicitly connects all three, and it does so in a concise and accessible way.
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Non Solum: Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
What are your practices to remember the dead?
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Viewpoint: A Spirituality of Ruins
Ruins remind us that every aspect of life does not have a happy ending. All we can do is recognize our ruins, accept them, lament over them—and then commend them to God in the firm faith that only he has the power to rebuild in the day of eternity.
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