A notable change was made recently in the 2024 Pontifical Yearbook: the restoration of the papal title “Patriarch of the West”. Titles serve as significant markers of the roles individuals perform or the offices they […]
You are now in the Christmas season, a season that, like a Midwestern American visit, concludes in stages. “Well, it’s probably time we left you guys alone” is followed ten minutes later by, “We’ve got […]
Last year at the Eastern Churches Seminar at Notre Dame College in Ohio, I gave a lecture entitled “If My Saints Are True, Are Yours False?” I looked at some of the complicated issues that […]
Authored by the young Benedictine Sister Jeana Visel, Icons in the Western Church: Toward a More Sacramental Encounter deserves the widest possible readership among Western Christians. […]
The best sort of Apostolic Exhortations are the shortest. Such as this one from St. Paul: “We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all. See that […]
The liturgical historian Fr. Robert Taft, S.J., is fond of saying that both the Latin and Byzantine liturgical traditions are “mongrels.” There is no such thing as a “pure” rite or liturgical tradition untouched by […]
© Catholic World Report