Across denominations, praise and worship music can be found both in Sunday morning church services and on Spotify playlists.
Liturgy
Posted inFaith in Focus
The Mass is a constant. But we experience it differently over time.
If Catholics can accept the imperfections of the humans running Mass, they are likely to keep going.
Posted inShort Take
The theology of forgetting: How dementia deepens our understanding of human dignity
Those with dementia are not problems to solve but persons to love—bearers of Christ’s image.
Posted inExplainer
Analysis: Why is Pope Leo letting Cardinal Burke say the Latin Mass at the Vatican?
U.S Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a traditional Latin Mass for pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, Oct. 25, with Pope Leo XIV’s permission. The pilgrim group, which makes annual trips to the Vatican, did not receive permission to celebrate the pre-Vatican II rite in St. Peter’s during its 2023 or 2024 pilgrimages. The […]
Posted inFaith and Reason
Pope Leo’s Latin Mass Problem
Pope Leo’s predecessors took markedly different approaches to liturgical reform. Leo must chart a course between them while settling on which is fundamentally the correct path.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
Kilian McDonnell, a Benedictine monk whose life’s work was Christian unity
Alongside his ecumenical work, McDonnell was devoted to the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church, and served for two decades as a consultant to the U.S. bishops’ on the charismatic renewal.
Posted inIdeas
A Jesuit architect visits the new Notre-Dame
The craftsmanship is extraordinary—woodwork, stonework, metalwork and glasswork. Even with a trained eye, it is almost impossible to distinguish the parts that were replaced from those that survived the fire.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo’s message to Gen Z: ‘You are a sign that a different world is possible’
At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be “seeds of hope” and a “sign that a different world is possible.”
Posted inFaith and Reason
The Eucharist and controversy: History, theology and why we argue
Latin Mass, Eucharistic Revival, real presence: In every age—including our own—the church has seen a complex Eucharistic landscape.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Leo prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass
“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass “for the care of creation.”