About a month ago, Bishop Trautman (Erie), chair of the USCCB Committee on Liturgy, who has been vocal in his criticisms of various liturgical signals and signs coming from Rome, wrote a brief critique of the proposed new translation of the Mass, that was published in America. The piece, available only to subscribers on the…

Adam Minter, author of this month’s Atlantic article on the Church in China (which I’ve not read yet) has a blog post on the forthcoming letter from the Pope to Chinese Catholics. In terms of the content, APcom’s source indicates that the text includes an overview of Vatican-China relations over the last fifty years, and…

Blogger Gashwin Gomes is in NYC, and attended a performance of Our God’s Brother at the Storm Theater: The play, part of a festival dedicated to the works of Karol Wojtyla: … was written approximately ten years later during the Soviet occupation. It tells the story of freedom fighter-turned-artist Adam Chimielowski (better known as Brother…

Julia Duin at the WaTimes, with a lengthy profile of Archbishop Wuerl after a year It’s comprehensive and thorough, looking at everything with his informal gatherings with Catholic members of Congress to his catechetical efforts: According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, 50 percent of the 475 men who will be ordained…

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