Tag: Msgr. M. Francis Mannion
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Viewpoint: Need a Key to the Trinity? Start with Jesus
The Trinity is indeed a mystery, but not in the sense of being a giant theological puzzle, but–according to the theological meaning of the word “mystery”–a reality so rich, bright, multifaceted, and all-encompassing that we can never fully take in.
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Viewpoint: Holy Week a Living Reality, not a Passion Play
In the Holy Week liturgy, the event stands in the present, and we are participants.
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Viewpoint: How Successful is the Post-Vatican II Liturgy?
I would identify six areas in which the practice of the liturgy can be improved.
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Viewpoint: Is the Church Judge, Therapist, or Mother?
In the area of the Christian moral life, I suggest, there are three principal images at work: the Church as judge, the Church as therapist, and the Church as mother.
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Viewpoint: Radical Renewal Needed for Religious Life
Today, many women’s religious orders and congregations seem headed for a very insecure future (to put it mildly), or worse, extinction.
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Viewpoint: Advancing the Roles of Women in the Church
The Church continues to be at a loss as to how to advance the roles of women in its administrative structures.
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Viewpoint: Is Ash Wednesday Still Relevant in the 21st Century?
Catholics who show up for work after Mass on Ash Wednesday wearing ashes on their foreheads will likely be thought by fellow-workers to be indulging in a quaint and harmless old Catholic practice with not much contemporary relevance.
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Viewpoint: In Favor of the Restoration of “Sunday Best”
When Miss Manners proposes a return to wearing “Sunday Best” when going to church, I leap to her support. – M. Francis Mannion