Tag: Commonweal
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Where are the younger Catholics??
“For several years now, I’ve suspected that my entire generation had vanished from Catholicism.”
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Rita Ferrone on “Washing Feet”
At Commonweal.
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The Monks and the Modernist: What the Benedictines Built at Collegeville
Marcel Breuer would have been proud. So would Baldwin Dworschak. And maybe even St. Benedict as well. Breuer, the New York Bauhaus-trained architect, and Dworschak, the far-sighted abbot of a Benedictine monastery in rural Minnesota, were the central figures in a unique collaboration that produced one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century religious architecture, the acclaimed…
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Formally equivalent Christmas cookies
May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
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Latin nouns, missed opportunities
I begin to think our people, pastors, poets, and theologians should humbly collaborate on a new missal, not only a better translation of the Missale Romanum but also on an inculturated sacramentary. Shall we at least pray about this?
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Eduardo Peñalver on the Missal’s rollout …
From Commonweal.
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The Martyrdom of a Lovely Language
Part 3 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series on the new translation. “We are being told something by this new missal and we had better understand: ‘Your language doesn’t matter. Nobody’s living language matters. Latin matters.'”
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The Case in Phoenix
Pray Tell contributor Rita Ferrone has written wisely on the dotCommonweal blog about “The Case in Phoenix.” I’ll soon be adding a few comments here about the matter.
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Vatican II Limericks
You’ve read reports from the Second Vatican Council before, but never quite like these!