The Church’s Language Problem
In so many areas of our lives, we have overcome our prejudices to exercise gender sensitivity in language.
Liturgy
Is Holding Hands in the Liturgy OK?
Is it a Church rule that we are not supposed to hold hands during the Our Father at Mass? Catechist...
Papal liturgist: Fighting over Liturgy Distorts Purpose of Mass
When a choir director and parish priest differ over liturgical music, the choir should follow in good faith the wishes...
Our Missal is Hard on the Ear!
Sarah-Leah Pimental -I refer to Fr. Chris Townsend’s column of 6 June “Let’s Look at the New Missal Translation –...
Let’s Look at the New Missal Translation – Again
After a few years of using the new edition of the Roman Missal in English and the Revised Standard Version...
Should We Vary the Preachers at Mass?
I know of one European diocese where the bishop has approved a “homily team” of half-a-dozen lay people who have...
Weak Homilies Can’t Be Tolerated
From John Faller, Johannesburg – I could not agree more with Sr Susan Rakoczy’s Point of Debate article, “A moratorium on...
We’re Getting the Responsorial Psalm All Wrong
From John Lee, Johannesburg – In many parishes in the country, the incorrect practice of reading the responsorial psalm together by...
Ascension and Assumption Days
From Bishop Edward Risi OMI, Chairman: SACBC Christian Formation, Liturgy and Culture Desk – There is certainly a lot of merit...
