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The Language of Love: Sunday Reflection

Crossword No. 1767

Across 1 Roman god found in church in Irish county (5) 4 Real devotion helping after a party (9) 9 Disturbing lust and vice I found in old book (9) 10 Carminative spice sou...

Crossword No. 1770

Across 1 London church walks with bishop joining in (2,6) 5 Son meeting father, looking embarrassed, being forgiven? (6) 9 Our Rev. set out initial suggestions (9) 11 It...

Crossword No. 1770

Across 1 London church walks with bishop joining in (2,6) 5 Son meeting father, looking embarrassed, being forgiven? (6) 9 Our Rev. set out initial suggestions (9) 11 It...

Worship without erasure

When Bimen Limbong began serving in Jeffersontown, Ky., a congregant approached him with a concern: his accent made it difficult to follow his sermons. He didn’t respond defensivel...

The Emotional Displacement of Losing Part of Community

Families and communities grew up with an old church in Pittsburgh. Nativity of Our Lord is now gone, taking with it precious memories of times gone by.

Thursday's Catch: 'What we lose when churches stop naming themselves' And More

What we lose when churches stop naming themselves A church may drop “Baptist,” “Methodist,” “Presbyterian” or “Pentecostal” from the sign. It still has convictions about baptism, m...

Crossword No. 1772

Across 1 Rebuilt nave hosts Jewish doorstep evangelist (8,7) 9 He prepares for recipients of letter (7) 10 Concerning special event in a spiritual time (7) 11 A word of compar...

St. James Vicariate Offers Spiritual Home to Hebrew-Speaking Catholics

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St. James Vicariate Offers Spiritual Home to Hebrew-Speaking Catholics

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The synodal endgame: Redefine sin, redesign the Church, remove the faithful

The hosts of Faith and Reason zero in on the language that has the Church reeling: sin redefined, morality relativized, and one of the individuals cited in the report previously bl...

Translation, Transformation, and Doctrine: Theological Implications of Language and Meaning

This article examines the theological and pastoral implications of translations in Catholic doctrine and practice. It demonstrates how linguistic decisions have contributed to endu...

Crossword No. 1766

Across 1 Spooner’s to transcribe Mark? Rubbish! (9) 6 In the midst of chaotic, rowdy rabble (5) 9 Six-footers having back trouble after mass carrying cross (8) 10 Fringe...

Welcome to the Church!

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Friday's Catch: 'Are Mainline churches on the brink of extinction?' And More

Are Mainline churches on the brink of extinction? “The religious landscape of the United States has never looked starker than it does today. There are huge geographical swaths of A...

WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (V.O.): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I am going to drag you – again – through my standard and sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neoplatonism. Consider this a different sort of “food post...

Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Quasimodo Sunday (and “Low” and “Thomas” and “Divine Mercy”)

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligat...

‘Ecclesiacide,’ Then and Now

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Laïc when it suits

survive15: No thanks, it would break me. Reading about it was bad enough. In the late 1970s I taught at a college of HE in Cheshire (Crewe & Alsager now long part of MMU). M...

Laïc when it suits

survive15: No thanks, it would break me. Reading about it was bad enough. In the late 1970s I taught at a college of HE in Cheshire (Crewe & Alsager now long part of MMU). M...

Faith: Degrees of understanding of God

GOD needs to speak to us in our own language. As the Anglican poet Malcolm Guite puts it: “Hail your God in any language, he replies in your own mother tongue” (David’s Crown: Soun...

Devotion for April 10, 2026

Losing Jesus Luke 2:41–50 The boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it. Luke 2:43 If Mary and Joseph could lose Jesus in a place like Jerusalem, you and I...

A Lenten and Easter church

I often hear this phrase when I’m visiting congregations or sitting in meetings: “We are an Easter church.” I like that idea and the reasoning behind it. Who wouldn’t want... The p...

UK news in brief

Cowherder’s famous lines discovered in Rome A LOST copy of “Caedmon’s Hymn”, the oldest poem to be written in English, has been discovered inside a manuscript at the National Cent...