Liturgy
The Floating Sacrament
In the days after Vatican II, confession slipped its old juridical moorings, with its distinctive laws, regulations, judgment, and penance. At the moment it is searching for new moorings. What will confession look like once it finds them?
The Aftermass
Report on the new translation of the Roman Missal
Missal Defense
Learning to Live with Change
The War on Beige
Finding good resources for adult faith formation isn't easy. For years, the field has been wide open for someone who could combine actual substantive content with an engaging yet adult-worthy teaching style. Into this breach comes Catholicism.
It Doesn’t Sing
The trouble with the new Roman Missal
Liturgy by Committee
In Hull’s view, the revolution in the Catholic Church's liturgical practice was “the worst wound ever inflicted on the Mystical Body.”
Up against the Wall
The liturgical wars heat up
Joys (& Fears) of Cooking
A homilist's education
No Labels, Please
Lisa Sowle Cahill’s middle way
Squandered
If we forget the Bible, in what sense are we Christian?
Radical, OP
Could the vogue for Herbert McCabe portend a renaissance of liberation theology and the revolutionary spirit of the ’60s? His admirers have not linked his Catholic faith and his socialist politics, and McCabe himself denied an intrinsic connection. Still, there exists a bond between his theology and his radicalism, a bond particularly worth examining today.
The Bus to Birmingham
Way back in the twentieth century, when I decided to pursue doctoral work in theology, I never imagined that I would one day teach in an Oxford college. Neither did I imagine that John Henry Newman, of all people, would come to loom large in my day-to-day life.
Catholic Vermont
A short & unfinished history
Ratzinger at Vatican II
A pope who can and cannot change
Who Is Benedict XVI?
A selection of articles from Commonweal on Benedict XVI.
A Bricklayer’s Son
Stanley Hauerwas & the Christian Difference
Re-oriented
If the priest is going to face east during Mass, so should everyone else.
Virgil & the Vigil
The bees are coming back to the Exsultet.
Why I Became Catholic
A child of the council explains why he feels like an orphan.
Be Still
Even by modern standards, 2008 was a cacophonous year.
Between Reform & Rupture
The Second Vatican Council according to Pope Benedict XVI
The Old Rite Returns
Welcome back?
A Step Backward
Whatever happened to liturgical reform?
Lost in Translation
The bishops, the Vatican & the English liturgy
Reforming the Reform
Catholic bishops are usually loath to acknowledge dissent within their ranks. So it was surprising when the U.S. bishops publicly released the results of an internal poll that showed them almost evenly split on new English translations for the Mass. The divisions among the bishops revealed that perhaps they do not walk in lockstep as much as conventional wisdom holds.
