Catholic participation in English-speaking ecumenical translations has been withdrawn and has not resumed. ‘Liturgiam authenticam’ has, essentially, forbidden it
The parallel legitimacy of the non-reformed and reformed liturgies has caused and perpetuated confusion and division in the church. How did this happen?
The tightly controlled and highly centralized approach to the translation of liturgical texts that has reigned over the past fifteen years may be coming to an end.
At a time when many Catholic parishes in North America are faltering, William Simon has set out to analyze ones that are thriving. How does a parish thrive?
Mass facing the people has a profound beauty. A view of the priest’s back and elbows isn’t naturally or inevitably going to make anyone think of the Second Coming.
There won’t be “reform of the reform” after all. Francis shakes up the Vatican’s financial management, chooses new (lay, non-Italian) leadership at the press office.
As the CDW sets up a new commission, is there hope for Vatican II Catholics that the pope will firmly resist any attempts to roll back the clock on those reforms?
Francis reforms the “evangelical spirit” of the church as a rumored eighty-five percent of cardinals in the Curia disapprove, many because of his work with refugees.
How media shunned Eastern Orthodox leaders visiting refugees with the pope; Which title Francis prefers; Why U.S. bishops fired Catholic News Service editor-in-chief
Rome responds to attacks in Brussels; Francis breaks with tradition to wash feet of asylum seekers for Holy Thursday; New Vatican directory has revealing findings.
Pope Francis’s “seemingly ambivalent” attitude toward clergy sex abuse; Canadian archbishop calls for the church to involve women in all levels of ecclesial life.
Frederica Mathewes-Green on Eastern Orthodoxy; Brian E. Daley and Paul Kolbert on Psalm interpretations, Philip Jenkins on lost gospels; James O’Donnell on pagans
Mathewes-Green, a convert from the Episcopal tradition, focuses on Orthodoxy as a path to God and uses the actions and prayers of the liturgy as a basis for theology
Pope Francis commissions specially selected “Missionaries of Mercy” for Holy Year while record numbers of Italian Catholics are seeking “annulments” of their baptism
Responses from readers about our collection of articles on the Synod on the Family, Rita Ferrone’s exegesis of the gospel of John, and the entire December 4 issue.
Vatican confirms details of Francis’s trip to Mexico; Francesca Chaouqui claims some cardinals want the pope dead; and globalization brings Christmas trees to Rome.
Pope Francis opened the Jubilee Year of Mercy heralding “mercy before judgment” in the spirit of Vatican II. But did the liturgy symbolically contradict the message?
John’s gospel is not a story about shepherds and angels. And for that reason, though it’s the assigned reading for Mass on Christmas day, most people won’t hear it.
Vatican translators edit piety into pope’s speeches; Francis plans ‘twelve big gestures to demonstrate God’s mercy’ for Jubilee Year; More on ‘Vatileaks II’ scandal.
Preachers have told stories in a variety of ways over the centuries. But preaching in the U.S. has seen a shift from typology to illustration as the prevailing mode.
Adult baptism in the United States fell 43 percent between 2005 and 2013. Does it suggest a stagnation of our collective imagination about baptism itself?
In this collection of essays, authors draw on “Theology of the Body” to present the Church as a place where women’s leadership can flourish. The results are mixed.
When the priest said “The Mass is ended, alleluia,” she burst out laughing. As a guest at Mass, she sensed the beauty of Catholic worship, and also its strangeness.
Following the Orthodox Church, Francis announces World Day of Prayer’s theme; U.S. Bishops don’t. Why is Francis silent about mob’s “Godfather-like” funeral in Rome?
Traditionalists grumble Francis is stacking the Synod assembly with “lefties”; 2016 World Day of Peace theme is announced, along with a long list of global issues.
