Pope Francis has held up the Congolese liturgy as a model for similarly inculturated rites in other parts of the Catholic world.
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We should stop filming the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
An e-Eucharist can be unsacramental and even anti-sacramental.
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Tomb of young Italian tech whiz opened for veneration
Before his death from leukemia in 2006, Acutis was an average teen with an above-average knack for computers. He put that knowledge to use by creating an online database of eucharistic miracles around the world.
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In defense of people-watching after Communion
After months of Zoom liturgies, I am beginning to think people-watching at Mass can itself be an opportunity for deeper communion.
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Cardinal Sarah to bishops: Facilitate Mass in person as soon as conditions permit
Church services and Mass online cannot compare to or replace the in-person participation of the faithful, Cardinal Sarah told the world’s bishops.
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Interview: Father Matt Hood, the priest who discovered he was invalidly baptized (and ordained)
Simcha Fischer speaks with Father Matthew Hood, the priest from Utica, Mich., who recently learned his baptism as an infant had been invalid.
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Should priests still lead parishes? German bishops debate new Vatican document
The Vatican document bars laypeople from leading parishes and emphasizes the role of priests.
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Should I go back to Mass? | Behind the Story
Churches are beginning to reopen. Should you go back to Mass? Four of America’s editors who recently attended Mass at their local parishes discuss the discernment process and safety measures around this question facing Catholics during the Covid-19 pandemic. They also reflect on how the pandemic has impacted our understanding of the parish as a […]
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Minnesota Catholics are divided over whether to wear masks to Mass
Mask-wearing at church has paralleled public mask use in general, which has seen variance across the state and country.
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Cardinal Dolan blesses ashes of Mexican nationals who died of Covid-19
In a moving ceremony at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Timothy Dolan blessed the cremated remains of Mexican nationals who had worked in city hospitals at the height of the pandemic and subsequently died from the virus before they were flown back to Mexico for burial.