Doctrine Develops, and So Does Liturgy By Jonathan Mitchican One of the biggest intellectual challenges to my journey into full communion with the Catholic Church was the idea that doctrine develops. Anglicanism at its best nurtures a love for th... Read More...
The Failures of Reform: A Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy By Samuel Keyes Theologians John Cavadini, Mary Healy, and Thomas Weinandy recently published a series of essays as “A Synoptic Look at the Failures and Successes of Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms.” The ... Read More...
Church as Family By Neil Dhingra Should we think of the church as a family? Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” and the line also seems to apply to the church: ecclesial failure can come from several diff... Read More...
The claims of conscience The conscience is not sovereign. God, who sits as judge on the last day, is sovereign.
Atheists at prayer for Christmas Spencer Case: “Dear God, I have come to the conclusion you probably don’t exist, but I’ve also come to the conclusion that any one view I hold may turn out to be mistaken, however unlikely the odds seem.”
A Catholic on the Reformation The Holy Spirit has given gifts to all people who love Jesus and follow him as Lord.
Bringing back the ’Gesimas: A liturgical proposal Pruned of the Gesimas, Lent is a far less coherent season. Ash Wednesday comes out of the blue, as congregants spent the Sunday prior contemplating the splendors of the Holy Mount.
Worship or works? Engaging Michael Curry and Richard Rohr Christian worship and Christian ethics are inextricably bound up together.