Eucharistic Ministers?
Jake Ross
One thing we often stress on Cream City Catholic is the importance of familiarizing oneself with Church documents regarding the sacred liturgy. The sorry state ...
Liturgical Abuse
Hoverboard Aftermath
James
Google Search "hoverboard" and what's the first story that pops up? If you follow the news, then you've heard about it. On Christmas Eve, a priest in full litur...
Common Sense and Reverence
James
Has Mass become a bit too chummy and informal, even a bit awkward? Is a sense of the sacred conspicuously M.I.A.? Does your parish more and more resemble a ...
Exodus
James
MARCH 3, 1945 U.S. Marines receive Communion from a Marine chaplain on Iwo Jima. The battle for the island was extremely costly for both sides: only about a th...
Kneeling Before God
James
"The Christian liturgy is a cosmic liturgy precisely because it bends the knee before the crucified and exalted Lord. ... The inability to kneel is seen as ...
Cream City Syncretism?
James
Appropriate? A Dream Catcher and the Cross (Image from parish website)
The Congregation of the Great Spirit (CotGS) is a Native American Catholic parish on ...
A Bishop’s “Vatican II Fact Check”
James
From time to time, CCC features a "Vatican II Fact Check" post in which we dispel false yet widely accepted narratives that dog the Second Vatican Council. ...
Recovering Lost Reverence
James
Full reverence: Saint Teresa of Avila receives Communion
Catholic blogs are abuzz with these images from Rio, showing "Eucharistic Ministers" distributing H...
Tradition and Today
James
The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist
"Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church som...
‘God’s Presence’ and the Alternative
James
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
"To celebrate the liturgy in the awareness of God's presence, with that dignity and beauty which make a little of his splendor visi...