BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – Instead of requiring that implementation of all parts of the new Roman Missal wait until the first Sunday of Advent, bishops who head dioceses can authorize the gradual introduction of the musical settings of the people’s parts of the Mass beginning in September. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, chairman […]

Ecclesia semper reformanda —the Church must always be reformed. Remember that from Vatican II? Liturgical renewal may seem a far cry from sweeping Church reformation but it is no less continual and inevitable. Are there not still some older Catholics who remember the unsettling speed — for others not soon enough — with which significant […]