Tag: Church Reform
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I Want to Speak with the Manager: A Conversation with Archbishop Roche
Christopher Lamb of The Tablet speaks with the Prefect of the CDW.
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German Catholic Women: A Week of Boycott
German Catholic women begin week of boycott
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St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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Who Should Elect The Bishop? A Suggestion
My idea how the procedure of finding a new bishop for a diocese might look like.
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The Curse of Clericalism
Nothing remarkable there; indeed, the sort of things that liturgists have talked about both informally and formally during the past 50 years.
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Association of US Catholic Priests passes resolutions
Resolutions were rejected asking permission to use the 1974 Sacramentary and calling for discussion of women and married men in the priesthood.
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The first 100 days of Pope Francis
“The Argentine soon made it clear that he had no appetite for the creeping traditionalism and pomp of church power that had begun under his predecessor.”
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An era that has passed away
It is clear that Pope Francis does not want to go back 60 years, to a time before the Council. He does not want to restore practices from a bygone era, or claim continuity with them. Significantly, he has named that era as one which has passed away.
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Reforming the Vatican is like nailing jelly to a wall
A half-millennium of attempts to reform the central administration of the Catholic Church has not succeeded.