Rita Ferrone

Rita Ferrone is the author of several books about liturgy, including Rediscovering Vatican II: The Liturgy (Paulist Press).

An Illuminated Easter Proclamation

February 28, 2012, 2:25 pm

The Illuminated Easter Proclamation, illustrated by Deacon Charles Rohrbacher Liturgical Press, 2011; $79.95 I’ve long been intrigued by the phenomenon of exsultet scrolls. The medieval practice, found principally in Southern Italy, of singing the exsultet from a richly illuminated
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Clerical Culture and the Abuse Crisis

November 8, 2011, 2:58 pm

The sex abuse crisis has brought many in the Church to a painful awareness that there is something very wrong in the way our clerical system operates. Many have asked: Are we treating the problem at the systemic level, i.e. addressing the institutional culture that enabled abuse? The need for
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