The case for a grass-roots review of the new Roman Missal

The ministry of the reader at Mass is pivotal to the whole liturgical celebration.

Churches and cathedrals are not merely temples built according to some preconceived pattern to honor the deity, an enterprising designer or a loyal benefactor. They are powerful epiphanies or metaphors of what the church is, how it behaves and what it stands for in the modern world.

John W. O’Malley, S.J.: The ‘how’ of the church changed during the council.

To draft principles and norms of translation for the nearly 800 vernacular languages of the Catholic world is a formidable taska task that should involve the broadest consultation of episcopal conferences as well as liturgical and biblical scholars. The Authentic Liturgy (Liturgiam Authenticam), a 3

I used to think it was arrogant of the church not explicitly to include symbols from popular media culture in liturgy.