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Apparently, this number is 20-30 people higher than at any prior meeting.\u00a0 The clear majority were men.\u00a0 16 out of 39 presenters were priests or nuns.\u00a0 (I had this number wrong earlier.)<\/li>\n<li>During lunch on Saturday, one of the attendees asked me about my institutional affiliation. When I replied that I taught at Villanova University, she asked me, \u201cVillanova . . . is that still Catholic?\u201d\u00a0 The meaning of the question was not \u201cIs Villanova now a secular school no longer affiliated with the Augustinian order and the Catholic Church?\u201d\u00a0 No, the meaning of the question was \u201cIs Villanova now a secular school masquerading as a Catholic institution?\u201d\u00a0 I replied that the vision of theology at Villanova is \u201cfaith engaging culture.\u201d\u00a0 I told her that at Villanova we treasure the wisdom of the past and place that wisdom in dialogue with questions and insights from contemporary culture.\u00a0 I am not sure that my answer satisfied her.\u00a0 Since she is enrolled in a theology program at Christendom College, I had the sense that she already \u201cknew\u201d the answer and that nothing I could say would change her mind.<\/li>\n<li>One presenter, whose paper on active participation was quite good in my judgment, made no effort at all to use inclusive language. Everything was \u201cman,\u201d \u201cmen,\u201d \u201che,\u201d and \u201chis.\u201d\u00a0 I found this sexist language disappointing, especially in an academic setting.<\/li>\n<li>More than one person at the conference associated postmodernism with narcissism in what struck me as a fairly uncritical manner. My thinking is that postmodern suspicion of meta-narratives leaves many people believing that they are left to their own resources for constructing meaning and purpose in their lives.\u00a0 This situation is conducive to the development of narcissism or to the worsening of narcissism in those who already have such tendencies but narcissism, however morally blameworthy or convenient as a target of criticism, is to my way of thinking merely a symptom of a much deeper problem.\u00a0 I tried to make that point more than once but I am not sure I made any headway.<\/li>\n<li>After a presentation which featured in part St. Augustine\u2019s critique of pagan worship a discussion ensued during which an attendee was sharply critical of the emptiness of pagan worship. I replied that it seemed to me that at least some of the time in at least some cases, pagans who engaged in worship and sacrifice in their own cults derived some insight and benefit from them.\u00a0 350 years before Christ, for example, the Greek philosopher Isocrates had written: \u201cIn the worship of the gods, follow the example of your ancestors, but consider that the noblest sacrifice and greatest service is to show yourself the best and most righteous person, for such persons have greater hope of enjoying a blessing from the gods than those who slaughter many victims.\u201d\u00a0 My interlocutor responded with a comment about the dual need to respect pagans who acted in good faith and the need to distinguish the \u201cculture of life\u201d from the \u201cculture of death.\u201d The distinction between the culture of life and the culture of death did not strike me as helpful in this case.\u00a0 It put me in mind of Evangelii Nuntiandi 54, where Pope Paul VI wrote \u201cour religion effectively establishes with God an authentic and living relationship which the other religions do not succeed in doing, even though they have, as it were, their arms stretched out towards heaven.\u201d\u00a0 I had the sense that I was emphasizing the phrase about their arms and my interlocutor was emphasizing the part about not succeeding.\u00a0 (One might also note the contrast in tone between documents such as the Declaration on Religious Freedom and the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions on the one hand and \u201cDominus Iesus\u201d on the other.)<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s meeting featured a Mass in the Extraordinary Form, that is, the unreformed Mass of 1962. I do not know if this practice is typical at SCL meetings.\u00a0 My own views on the Extraordinary Form are available in \u201c<em>Summorum Pontificum<\/em> and Fragmentation in the Roman Catholic Church\u201d <em>Worship<\/em> 89 \/ 2 (2015): 146-165, so I will not belabor that point here.\u00a0 However, I would add that the theme of a future SCL meeting (2019, I think) is \u201cLiturgical Reconciliation.\u201d\u00a0 This phrase does not refer to the sacrament of reconciliation but rather to ways in which the two current Forms might mutually enrich each other.\u00a0 Again, my thinking on this issue can be found in the journal article referenced above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I invite your thoughts and comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28-30 September, the Society for Catholic Liturgy held its annual conference in Philadelphia, PA.  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