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How to…. Genuflect
November 29, 2018
Kneeling has always been a gesture of reverence; but the practice of genuflecting – touching the right knee briefly to the ground – is comparatively recent. “It appears to have been introduced and gradually to have spread in the West during the later Middle Ages,” says the Catholic Encyclopedia, “and scarcely to have been generally
The Church in the Global North is ever more defined by the South
November 29, 2018
Theresa May’s reported refusal to offer asylum to Asia Bibi in Britain has earned her well-deserved criticism. The case is a straightforward one of offering refuge to a victim of persecution who, despite her acquittal on transparently false blasphemy charges in Pakistan, would certainly be killed by a fanatical mob should she emerge from hiding.
Diary of a city priest
November 29, 2018
So Advent begins again: the first great penitential season of the year. In the better monasteries it’s still a season of fasting. I am not sure we do much to avert to its penitential mood any more in the average parish beyond the purple vestments for Mass. After the excesses of Black Friday and with
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November 29, 2018
St Louis, Missouri Victim of shooting recalled as a ‘lovely soul’ Catholics have paid tribute to a parishioner who was fatally shot last week. Jamie Schmidt, a mother of three, was a customer in a Catholic goods shop when a gunman entered the shop, sexually assaulted two women there and then shot Schmidt. Mourners gathered
Omnium gatherum
November 29, 2018
“Tuis enim fidelibus, Domine, vita mutatur non tollitur … Truly for Thy faithful, O Lord, life is changed, not taken away.” This phrase from the Preface for the Dead is a fitting way for us to ring out a liturgical year and to bring in the new with the First Sunday of Advent. During November
How Catholics are falling for the Prosperity Gospel
November 29, 2018
Increasing numbers of Catholics are embracing the belief that money can buy divine rewards
The Word this week
November 29, 2018
First Sunday of Advent Jer 33:14-16; 1 Thess 3:12 – 4:2; Lk 21:25-28 (Year C) The season of Advent belongs to everyone who believes that the best, both for ourselves and the world entrusted to us, is yet to come. The sure hope that Advent proclaims is rooted in Christ and his power to save.
In Italy, the Our Father is being re-translated – and not everyone is convinced
November 29, 2018
The Italian bishops’ conference voted recently to approve a change to the translation of the Our Father used in the official Italian edition of the Roman Missal (Novus Ordo Missae). If the Italian bishops’ decision is approved by the Vatican, then soon the prayer will no longer be recited liturgically with the words, non indurci
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