Active participation in the liturgy means understanding the rites and prayers and taking part in the sacred action with devout collaboration.
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We have come a long way from Michelangelo's extraordinary frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling to “Luce.”
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In the last installment of this “God's Two Books” column, I reflected on some highlights from the unprecedented dialogue that unfolded over eight years...
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The native of Buenos Aires, who rose to be its Archbishop, prefers the subway to limousines -- 'villas miserias' to ecclesiastical sophistication.
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VATICAN CITY - The last few days before he was ordained archbishop at St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, "Don Giorgio" Gänswein was without his iPhone or PC,...
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He was Benedict XVI's right-hand man, and now runs daily operations for Francis, but it's still not clear where German-born Georg Ganswein fits into other...
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VATICAN CITY - Ghana's Peter Turkson, Guinea's Robert Sarah, South Africa's Wilfred Napier, and the Congolese Monsengwo Pasinya: Africa finally offers four...
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ROME – Among the stereotypes and prejudices Catholic evangelists often encounter vis-à-vis the Vatican is the charge of rampant careerism, referring to the...
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The most alive of the dead languages is also getting a boost in some surprising corners outside the Vatican walls.
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In a diocese in the southern German city of Munich, LGBTQI+ believers now have their own contact persons for pastoral care. However, parishioners would like...
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