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Pope Francis on “triumphalism”
“That the Lord may save us from fantasies of triumphalism,โ Pope Francis said.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 41
Art. 41 makes a claim of great importance for the subsequent ecclesiology developed at Vatican II. What sense(s) the Christian life of the faithful โderives fromโ and/or โdepends uponโ the ministry of the bishop?
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Rubrics & Pope Francis
It’s a temptation on all sides to over-analyze every move that Pope Francis has made… but what do you make of all this?
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What makes a parish worth sticking around?
The answer won’t come as a surprise to readers of this blog, but you better gas up the car.
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Refresh my heart: “Send them out as prayer”
Here it is, the second week of Easter. The ice on the lake in my neighborhood is gradually receding. The grass is a slightly greenish shade of brown, and the geese are arriving, and Iโm thinking about the proclamation of the word in the liturgy.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 40
Article 40 treats the situation in which a more โradicalโ adaptation would be needed and seems to foresee a โbottom-upโ form of inculturation in which one begins with the religious practices of a given culture and attempts to find in them vehicles for Christian worship.
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Pope Francis Reverts to Pastoral Staff of Paul VI
Keen observers have noted that he is using the contemporary pastoral staff used by Paul VI and John Paul II.
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Vernacular liturgy and Pope Francisโ โhermeneutic of continuityโ
The Mass at John Lateran in Rome this Sunday is part of Francisโ โhermeneutic of continuityโ โ with Vatican II, with Pope Paulโs reform of the rites, and with the rest of the Catholic Church.
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Pope Francis meets with Caรฑizares Llovera, CDW prefect
We don’t know what this meeting was about. We can only wonder.
