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Chicago: Where Eucharistic Revival Goes to Die

Chicago: Where Eucharistic Revival Goes to Die

For all its good intentions, the grand project of Eucharistic Revival is barely limping to its finish line. Applause is in order, for at least it noticed a precipitous loss of faith in the central mystery of Catholicism. But its cure was carefully wrapped in the naïve...
Tradition and Treachery

Tradition and Treachery

The cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, has issued a directive to demand that parishioners in the archdiocese not kneel to receive Holy Communion, on the grounds that doing so interrupts the flow of the procession and calls attention to the individual. Of course,...
Is Kneeling for Communion a Disruption?

Is Kneeling for Communion a Disruption?

His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has recently written a letter in his archdiocesan publication discouraging the practice of kneeling for the reception of Holy Communion. Now, I state straightaway that I am not here to encourage anyone to be disrespectful...
Restoring the Beauty of the Liturgy

Restoring the Beauty of the Liturgy

If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? —Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) This question,...
What to Sing and When?

What to Sing and When?

Musicam Sacram, 1967, highlights the importance of singing in the sacred liturgy and provides useful instruction for prioritizing the parts of the Mass that should be sung. Additionally, Musicam Sacram specifically retains the distinctions between Solemn, Sung, and...