If only the priest would turn his back on members of the congregation, the movie’s logic goes, and recite the liturgy in a language they don’t understand, the pews would be full and the seminaries overflowing.
Liturgy
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Whether the Mass is in Latin or the vernacular—it’s the same Eucharist that unites the church
I am awestruck by the beauty of the Eucharist wherever I encounter it. That’s a big reason why the so-called liturgy wars bore me.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Facebook wants you to pray with them. Don’t trust their intentions.
Facebook’s new prayer feature seems much more likely to invite us to turn further inward into that social media hellscape of narcissism and self-promotion. Pray for us, indeed.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The U.S. bishops’ document on the Eucharist could benefit young Catholics
Most college students attending Mass on campus won’t know the title of the document, much less the number of bishops who voted for or against it. What they will experience is a community centered around the Eucharist, and that will be what matters most.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Do Pope Francis and Pope Benedict disagree about Vatican II and the traditional Latin Mass?
“I never imagined that Pope Francis would go back that strongly to what Vatican II said and uphold it.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I love Latin Mass and Pope Francis. Please don’t let a few (very loud) traditionalists ruin it for the rest of us.
Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Latin Mass took off in this North Carolina diocese. What will happen under Pope Francis’ new restrictions?
It was the motu proprio heard around the Catholic world, but perhaps nowhere more loudly than in Boone, N.C.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Many Catholics who felt lost after Vatican II found comfort in the Latin Mass. Now, they are hurting again.
I pray for unity in the church. I pray also for the consolation of fellow Catholics, who may now be denied that portion of the church’s tradition that has nourished their faith, as it once did mine.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican archbishop: Traditional Latin Mass movement ‘hijacked’ initiatives of John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Archbishop Di Noia: Pope Francis “fearlessly hits the nail on the head: the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) movement has hijacked the initiatives of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to its own ends.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
As a deaf Catholic, the Latin Mass gives me equal access to the liturgy
If the Latin Mass that I attend currently were to cease, I would be back to square one for determining which aspects of myself I am willing to sacrifice on Sunday.