Tag: The Guardian
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Catholic Church and Today’s World: Two Views
“I do think there’s a real big crisis in the Church, and it actually feels a bit like 1989…” – Diarmaid MacCulloch “Viewed theologically, the church is already ‘open’.” – Cardinal Cottier
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Inculturation, superheroes and waterguns
This story from The Guardian invites a scornful pile-on, but I think it might also prompt thoughtful reflection on how we set limits to inculturation and how we adapt liturgy to circumstances.
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Fictional monks
The monkish habit itself is fraught with potential fear – it’s unsurprising that so many ghost stories feature an unquiet brother, hooded and menacing.
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Arab Spring in the Catholic Church?
Joanna Moorhead, writing in The Guardian, thinks so.
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Italian bishop turns heads with Giorgio Armani vestments
The devil may wear Prada, but a Sicilian bishop has set out to show Satan does not have a stranglehold on designer clothing by ordering new vestments from Giorgio Armani. ‘This is about wearing something beautiful to give glory to God,’ says Bishop Domenico Mogavero.
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A fetish for the Bible
by Giles Fraser, writing in The Guardian. “The King James version has been manipulated for 400 years. Save it from the text obsessives.”
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James MacMillan on faith and music
Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan, who is the composer of some of the music to be used at Pope Benedict’s visit to UK which begins tomorrow, talks about faith and music at The Guardian.