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Crowdsourcing wisdom: hospitality ministry and introverts
Hospitality ministry is, I think, one of the most difficult tasks to define, let alone do well. It has no specific form or rubrics. It depends not only on cultural context but even on individuals’ personalities. Yet its purpose, to help integrate people into the social community of a parish, is indispensable for church life.
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The big pope interview
“What is worrying, though, is the risk of the ideologization of the Vetus Ordo [old Mass], its exploitation.” – Pope Francis
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Startling Interview with Pope Francis
“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continued, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”
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Episcopal ordination, papal style
The new papal almoner, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, was ordained a bishop in St. Peter’s yesterday. Francis, Bishop of Rome, was in attendance.
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Pope Francis: a leader with credibility
“And if you see at some point that I’ve lost it, please, tell me!”
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Monsignori non di più?
Perhaps you didn’t realize what a political football the issue of monsignors is.
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Ecclesiological and Liturgical Disjunctures
We as a Church must constantly think through how even the smallest details of our liturgies project a specific ecclesiology. Then we must gauge whether the ecclesiology being articulated is congruous with the Church’s self-understanding. Those practices, no matter how small, which are incompatible with the Church’s broader self-understanding should cease.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 57
In the years since the Council, sacerdotal concelebration has become a rather frequent practice, but thinking through how it “manifests the real nature of the true Church” is still in process.
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A thorny issue: priestly celibacy
Reports from Rome in recent days suggest that there may be a movement in the current position over priestly celibacy.
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