Tag: Eucharist
Pope Francis honours Sydney Catholics
First woman to study canon law among those to receive awards for service to the Church and society.
Philippa Martyr: Condensed milk liturgical music
We have a problem with the music in many churches
One of the funniest Catholic media pieces I’ve read recently was one from the US...
The Church ‘not a political party’
In latest catechesis, Pope Francis spoke powerfully on the church and rejected false synodality.
Philippa Martyr: The maleness of Jesus Christ
I’ve been reading a rather grim book lately called Clerical Sexual Misconduct, which was reviewed in The Catholic Weekly earlier this year.
But in the...
George Weigel: A new Sunday better normal
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a sense of...
Peter McGregor: Prayerful and Eucharistic Plenary Council Paper
There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best of the six discernment papers
George Weigel: A crisis is also an opportunity
Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran parish priest recently told me that he thought it would take one year...
Fr John Flader: Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
St Lydwine was a Dutch saint who was very sick, more sick than can be imagined
Simcha Fisher: In defence of communion rails
Stay with me here, there's something to be said for them
I was talking to a fellow who works as a missioner with the Maryknolls...
Fr Flader: The Supper of the Lamb
“Dear Father, When the priest holds up the host before Communion and says, “Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb”, is...