• Sorry, no Mass today

    Somehow, somewhere there must be a resolution of the crisis in priesthood that we presently face, or that hunger will spread and we will have failed future generations.

  • Decibels and Distraction

    Why is Mass loud in some churches? A question to PTB readers about their perception of sound and amplification in churches.

  • FDLC appoints new Executive Director

    Today Msgr John H. Burton, chair of the Board of Directors of FDLC, issued the following announcement: The Board of Directors of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions is happy to announce the appointment of Rita Thiron as Executive Director of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. Rita comes to this new position from the…

  • Silence has not made me wise

    Sorry for my long silence here on PrayTell! A lot of changes have been happening at Chateau Belcher since Hildegard’s birth. I had a summer course at St John’s and a speaking engagement at the Notre Dame Liturgy Symposium, and after those were finished, my family and I moved to South Bend, Indiana, where I…

  • Bishop of Meath, Ireland: Knock it off with the eulogies!

    This story has appeared on a few blogs already, so it might as well appear here too.

  • “Franciscan” Architecture?

    In an article on the church of St. Moritz in Augsburg, newly refurbished by the designer John Pawson, the author makes a connection between the simplicity of the white-clad Pope Francis and the simplicity of the white-clad St. Moritz.

  • US priests are ISTJ on the Meyers-Briggs?

    If you google “Jesus INFP” you’ll find that most think that’s what Jesus was in his earthly life.

  • Sunday Mass in Amsterdam

    Do you know about Dutch Catholicism? It was the cutting edge of left-wing Catholicism already before Vatican II, and certainly after. Think made-up liturgies that donโ€™t use a sacramentary/missal.

  • Christchurch’s Cardboard Cathedral

    The Anglicans in Christchurch New Zealand have provided themselves with a new Cathedral made largely of cardboard.


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