Under Father Michael Rennier’s pastoral leadership at Epiphany of Our Lord Church, drawing on the treasures of the Catholic liturgical heritage has resulted in a notably young and vibrant parish ...
A better understanding of the meaning and symbolic language of the Church's liturgy, especially the Mass, will help Catholics encounter the Lord and grow in holiness, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a ...
Other than sex, nothing is more heatedly debated by Catholics than the liturgy. Everyone has strong opinions based on years of personal experience. In the 1960s and '70s, Pope Paul VI implemented ...
I am pretty comprehensively ignorant of Christian liturgical questions, but I was thinking about this Michael Brendan Dougherty tweet that Rod Dreher linked to the other day and wondering about the ...
When Catholics arrive at church for the beginning of Advent this weekend, they may find themselves stumbling over not only the words, but also the music. The Vatican has changed the English-speaking ...
Before the Reformation, even the Catholic Church did not have a uniformly celebrated liturgy. Here, for example, is a fascinating variant in the medieval rite of marriage. It is the exchange of rings, ...
The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will be celebrated on Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m. Rome time in St. Peter’s Square. The liturgy will mark the official beginning of his ...
Last semester, The Beacon spoke with the co-authors of “Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis” to detail their uniquely collaborative writing process and ...
Reading the news and social media might lead you to think the only liturgical issue Catholics are concerned about is the Latin Mass. But there is another language problem in the Catholic liturgy that ...