Tag: Viewpoint
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Viewpoint: Are Eulogies Allowed at Funeral Masses?
The funeral planning meeting is no place to argue liturgical principles, lay down the law, and provide an outright refusal of the request for someone to give a eulogy at Mass. This creates bad feelings that can ripple through the family for years. But it can be an occasion to explain as gently as possible…
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Viewpoint: A World-Wide Persecution of Christians is Well Underway
Why are Christians in the West not aware of this terrible holocaust? For one thing the media do not report the persecution of Christians, and consider such news “politically incorrect.” Political leaders, for various reasons, are deaf to cries for help.
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Viewpoint: What is the Definition of a Really Active Catholic?
So, if you are a Catholic who cannot do much more than go to Mass on Sundays–but put your Christian heart and soul into your “secular” activities, then you are a really active Catholic.
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Viewpoint: Are Pope Francis’ Achievements Substantial or Mere Symbolism?
More than one commentator has suggested recently that Pope Francis is all symbolism and little substance. I disagree. (For one thing, I think symbolism is substance.)
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Viewpoint: Corpus Christi and the “Blessed Sacrament of the Mass”
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), the occasion each year when periods of exposition, adoration, and Benediction are most common. This would be a good time in which to reflect on the practice of Eucharistic devotion–and to ask what the Church might learn from popular…
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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.