Press in a Dither Again over Pope’s Reaffirmation of Catholic Teaching

Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the African continent continues to provide ammunition for opponents of Catholic teachings on artificial methods of contraception and artificial methods of birth control. During the apostolic flight Tuesday, Pope Benedict once again reaffirmed the Church’s… Read More

Architecture in Communion

Architecture in Communion, by Dr. Steven Schloeder is one book that should be required reading by seminary students, clergy, and laity throughout the United States. Dr. Schloeder expertly develops the road map for the implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s… Read More

Vestments… Tools of the Liturgical Trade!

One of the aspects that most people don’t even think about on a daily or weekly basis while attending Mass is the liturgical vestments of the priest and deacon. The chasuble and dalmatic are proper vestments to the order of… Read More

The Case of the Not-missing Christ

The perennial debate again rages around the secularization of Christmas by retailers and merchants that use the Christian holiday as a sales resource rather than the theological recollection of Jesus Christ’s birth. Watching the nightly news, there are multiple examples… Read More

Ego Cras

Advent, the great period of anticipation and preparation, is waning as we continue toward the celebration of the Incarnation on December 25th. The Liturgy of the Hours, the prayer of the Universal Church, begins on December 17 with the invocation… Read More

Let’s Show It Off!

It has been more than 30 years since the 41st International Eucharistic Congress was held in Philadelphia. That long a time has gone by as well without a concentrated attempt to organize a review of liturgical arts in the area.… Read More

From East to West!

Most Catholics, especially American Catholics, don’t think much about the religious art and architecture movement that exists in the Catholic Church today. For the most part, the weekly celebration of Eucharist that goes on in our parish communities is never… Read More

Novus Ordo Revisions: Let’s Go, Already

April 3, 1969 should be recalled as a monumental day in the history of the Catholic Church in the 20th century. That was the day Pope Paul VI promulgated his Apostolic Constitution, Misalle Romanum, that gave the Universal Church the… Read More

Book Review: The Domestic Church, Room by Room

I recently had the chance to read the finished galley copy of Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle’s latest book, The Domestic Church, Room by Room. This incredible text illustrates for all Catholics the need not only to practice the faith on Sunday… Read More

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