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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
The mandated Sunday litany of shame was a communications, liturgical, and theological blunder that left people re-victimised. “I stood there in the Church and didn’t know what to do. I was listening to this lament in a very public place. I wanted to leave, but then I thought I would be seen to be a Read more
Tags: Abuse apology, Bishop Peter Cullinane, clerical abuse, Dr Joe Grayland, Joe Grayland, Lament, Liturgy, Liturgy of Lament, NZ Catholic bishops, NZ Catholic Bishops Conference, Pastoral Letter, Royal Commission - Abuse in Care
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Monday, November 25th, 2024
Fr Joe Grayland’s disquiet over the NZ bishops’ apology (Cathnews 18/11/24) is perplexing. In a letter that needed to be short, it is hard to know what language the bishops could have used to make their apology more comprehensive than it is. Certainly, the apology needed to acknowledge, above all, Church leaders’ own failures for Read more
Tags: Abuse apology, Bishop Peter Cullinane, clerical abuse, Dr Joe Grayland, Joe Grayland, Lament, Liturgy, Liturgy of Lament, NZ Catholic bishops, NZ Catholic Bishops Conference, Pastoral Letter, Royal Commission - Abuse in Care
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on Disquiet over the NZ bishops’ abuse apology letter perplexing
Monday, November 18th, 2024
The Bishops’ Pastoral Letter and Litany of Lament at last Sunday’s masses are another example of Church leaders’ persistent inability to take full responsibility for the institution’s decisions. The inability to take full responsibility for these decisions has been a constant complaint of survivors and victims of abuse. However, in this action, the episcopal and Read more
Tags: Abuse, Dr Joe Grayland, Joe Grayland, Liturgy, NZ Catholic Bishops Conference, Pastoral Letter, Royal Commission - Abuse in Care
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on Abuse, bishops, apology, litany, lament and Sunday Assembly
Monday, November 11th, 2024
After formally banning several “doctrinally problematic” hymns last week, a Missouri bishop, Shawn McKnight, changed his tune, rescinding his original decree in favour of a 12-month synodal process. In his 5 November decree, McKnight wrote “It is now clear that an authentically synodal process of greater consultation did not occur prior to its promulgation”. He Read more
Tags: Bishop Shawn McKnight, Catholic hymns, Cesaréo Gabarain, David Haas, Ed Conlin, Liturgy, Missouri, Sacred Music, Synodality
Posted in Top Story, World | Comments Off on Bishop changes his tune – favours synodal process
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
The synodal process has shown a concerning lack of rigorous theological examination of the liturgy—both its theological essence and its ritual execution—leading to debates and speculative discussions that hinder the Church’s progress. This deficiency is starkly highlighted in paragraphs 26-28 of the Synod’s Final Document. The document equates Eucharistic and synodal assemblies as manifestations of Read more
Tags: Dr Joe Grayland, Joe Grayland, Liturgy, Sacrament, Synod of Bishops, Synodal process, Synodality
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Liturgy and sacraments — the synod’s hidden questions
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Nativity Catholic Church in Burke, Virginia, launched its first monthly “sensory Mass” on August 11, drawing a full congregation to what is typically the parish’s least-attended Sunday service. The 1pm Mass, designed to accommodate neurodiverse Catholics, featured dimmed lighting, quiet hymns and a range of sensory tools to assist attendees. Volunteers in gray T-shirts greeted Read more
Tags: Liturgy, Neurodiverse, Neurodiverse people, Sensory-friendly
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Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Recently, United States cultural celebrities addressed an open letter to Pope Francis, opposing further restrictions on the pre-conciliar liturgy. The letter, written by poet Dana Gioia, emphasised the aesthetic value and cultural significance of the liturgy according to the 1962 rite: “It would be short-sighted to deprive the next generation of artists of this source Read more
Tags: Baptism, Latin Mass, Liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Society of Saint Pius X, Traditionis Custodes, Vatican
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Liturgy is based on baptismal fidelity, and it is more than aesthetics
Monday, June 24th, 2024
Liturgical scholar Andrea Grillo (pictured) sees liturgical traditionalism as a backward-looking ideology that has little to do with the authentic tradition of the Catholic Church. In an interview with the traditionalist blog “Messa in Latino” the professor of sacramental theology at the Benedictine University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome emphasised the importance of the liturgy for Read more
Tags: Liturgy, Llturgical traditionalism, Pope Francis, Traditionis Custodes
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
“Without liturgical reform, there is no reform of the Church,” Pope Francis said emphatically last February during an address to the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. His remarks came around the 60th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy that was issued during Read more
Tags: Altar, Justin Stanwix, Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Gathered around the altar