EDITORIAL: The Diocese of Duluth’s ‘ad orientem’ liturgical trial could serve as a guidepost for alleviating the tensions in ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) explains on its website that the liturgical year is made up of six times or seasons: Advent, Christmas, Lent, the paschal Triduum, Easter, and ...

I write liturgical songs, both music and words, and a few years ago I did a project centered on the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany cycle. There were many classic themes to explore—hope, waiting, ...

Is widespread ad orientem — toward the [liturgical] east — celebration of the Holy Mass the future? Not immediately so, but there are reasons to think that it may indeed become so over the next 10 to ...

Other than sex, nothing is more heatedly debated by Catholics than the liturgy. Everyone has strong opinions based on years of personal experience. In the 1960s and '70s, Pope Paul VI implemented ...

For decades, there's been concern in many corners of the Church that Catholic music is in crisis. Much of the critique of contemporary liturgical music lies in the reforms of the Second Vatican ...

Sometime soon, the Vatican is expected to release a motu proprio, meaning a legal document under the pope’s authority, which will transfer responsibility for an aspect of marriage law from one Vatican ...

The liturgical year of the Roman Catholic church is often referred to as the Year of Grace, meaning that people should celebrate their unbounded love of God at all times in all places. The year begins ...

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Abbot John Klassen, OSB, is pleased to announce that Therese L. Ratliff, PhD, will be the next director and chief executive officer of Liturgical Press, the publishing apostolate ...

Recent articles in several religious journals have criticized the encroachment of a “liturgical movement” on the formerly “informal” denominations, such as the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist ...