In the second of a series of articles on the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, ...
Timothy O’Malley offers a backgrounder on the questions: Why was the liturgy reformed at all? And how did it happen? He dives into the academic background, pastoral aspects and papal insights of liturgical reform. He ...
Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasize the responsibility of bishops' conferences for judging the accuracy and suitability of liturgical translations and adaptations, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments published ...
Pope Francis encouraged new courses of action for parishes to help people understand the importance of Sunday Mass and parish ministries, a top Vatican official wrote in a message. The message was sent on behalf of ...
Writer David Mills recalls a recent experience at Mass where the priest encouraged the faithful to be more active in their participation — louder singing and more intense praying. Mills, however, writes that he enjoys ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor reflects on her deep love for sacred music and how it helps her better enter into the Mass. While she prefers attending Mass in the “ordinary” form — the Novus Ordo ...
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that the Church needs to offer a pastoral response to those who feel slighted over Pope Francis’ restrictions on the celebration of the Latin Mass. Data shows a decline in Catholics ...
With his decision to drastically restrict the celebration of the 1962 missal of Pope St. John XXIII — called by Pope Benedict XVI the “extraordinary form” of the Roman rite, and colloquially known as the ...
Monsignor Owen Campion looks at Pope Francis’ recent apostolic letter restricting the celebration of the Latin Mass, writing that the pope “acted to enhance a sense of unity among Roman Catholics, and he has reasons ...
OSV Publisher Scott Richert writes that his interest — and participation — in the Church’s various liturgies go back decades. Richert writes in his latest column that he has “come to appreciate each liturgy as ...
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