Tag: Liturgy

Attendees at conferences of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy in San Francisco are frustrated with the way the new Roman missal is being introduced and are displeased with the quality of the translation. In Ireland, the Association of Catholic Priests calls the missal “sexist, archaic, elitist and obscure,” and they want their Bishops to send it back to Rome.

…That this Synod request the House of Bishops to ask the Liturgical Commission to prepare material to supplement the Common Worship Baptism provision, comprising additional forms of the Decision, the Prayer over the Water and the Commission, expressed in culturally appropriate and accessible language.

91 year-old groom marries 87 year-old bride at Christ Church Episcopal in Lake Oswego, Oregon

“The collegiality of Vatican II has gone out the window, the ‘literal’ translations from the latin are in no way our vernacular, some of the words used are difficult to understand, much less pray.”

According to Lightcap, there’s a spiritual side to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s most famous inhabitant, and as “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is set to hit movie theaters at midnight, Lightcap is busy conjuring up the gospel according to Harry Potter.

Techno and traditional celebrations of the Day of the Dead can be found across the country from Trinity Wall Street in New York City to

“Whatever we do, whatever we offer our people, let it be eloquent, let it be truthful, let it be prayer and let it be common because those are the things which are the strengths of our church”