How Music Can Call Back Ex-Catholics
Music in churches should be “beautiful and magnificent”, but also hospitable and accessible to everyone, according to an expert in liturgy.
Liturgy
Advent is Waiting for Christmas but includes lots of Feasts
During the four weeks of Advent, the worldwide Church is not idle – here are some of the feasts that are celebrated. It celebrates plenty of major feasts with lots of customs, traditions and even special foods during the month of December.
Why Our Statues Are Not Idols
We know that images and statues of Christ and the saints are nothing more than plaster, wood or paint. As such they have no magical powers.
Pope: Stop taking Smartphone Snapshots during Mass
The Mass is not a show, but a beautiful, transformative encounter with the true loving presence of Christ, Pope Francis said
Why Do We Burn Incense in Church?
Incense has been used in the Catholic liturgy for ages. But doesn’t its use come from pagan origins?
Mass Translations: Bishops Can Now Approve Them
A document released by Pope Francis that gives bishops’ conferences greater power in introducing liturgical texts will have no immediate impact on the current English missal but will facilitate the approval of translations into South Africa’s other languages, according to the bishop responsible for liturgy in Southern Africa.
Pope Highlights Bishops’ Role in Mass Translations
In changes to the Code of Canon Law regarding translations of the Mass and other liturgical texts, Pope Francis highlighted respect for the responsibility of national and regional bishops’ conferences.
A Liturgical Peace
Pope Francis set down a marker recently when he affirmed “with certainty and magisterial authority that the liturgical reform” which followed the Second Vatican Council “is irreversible”.
Pope: Vatican II Liturgical Reform is Irreversible
The Catholic Church must continue to work to understand the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and why they were made, rather than rethinking them, Pope Francis said.
