Advent and Ad Orientem
James
The Catholic Herald is reporting that Cardinal Robert Sarah, the pope's point man on liturgy and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, has asked pries...
Liturgy
Reception and Reverence
James
The U.K.'s Catholic Herald featured a thought-provoking piece about reverence and the Eucharist from the perspective of a non-Catholic. To summarize, the articl...
Mass ‘Facing the Lord’
James
Standing out as one of the most popular myths about the Second Vatican Council is the claim that it called for the priest to face the people during Mass, instea...
Going Deeper: Low Mass Attendance
O.A.C.
What is the Way? What is the Truth? What is the Life?
What does it look like, smell like, sound like? These are the questions to which the heart seeks a defi...
Henry’s Revolution, Ratzinger’s Diagnosis
James
Reading about the Protestant Reformation in England, it's fascinating to look at the strategy that the reformers of King Henry VIII's day implemented to cut awa...
A ‘self-enclosed circle’
James
The idea that a celebration facing the people must have been the primitive one, and that especially of the last supper, has no other foundation than a m...
Time to Dance?
James
A photo from the Milwaukee Catholic Herald caught my attention. It depicts individuals dancing to the Cousins Center chapel for liturgy to commemorate the one-y...
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...
Morlino’s Mandate
James
There's some very encouraging news coming from the Diocese of Madison. Bishop Robert Morlino, well known nationally for his orthodoxy and devotion to the liturg...
Cathedral Goes Ad Orientem?
James
Is it going too far to suggest that the reformed liturgy of the late '60s (what most Catholics experience on Sundays) can be executed ad orientem (facing east)?...