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Guidelines: The U.S. bishops will vote to establish norms for hymns at Mass during their annual November meeting in Baltimore, November 13-16. The new norms, which will require a two-thirds vote by the bishops and subsequent recognitio by the Holy See, are to ensure that liturgical songs will be doctrinally correct, based in the scriptural…

Your November bishop’s meeting. We’ll post these separately, for the sake of discussion. First, they will be discussing norms for ministry to homosexual persons: The guidelines begin with a statement of general principles, including the fundamental dignity of each person as created by God. The document says the Church teaches that persons with a homosexual…

I’m going to be working on that tip sheet. Part of it will have to be left open until we actually, you know…have a document. It occurred to me that the Pope will probably have a preferred way of referring to "it" in the document, which will help. Anyway, here’s some links: The New Liturgical…

Over the past few days, the Italian church has been having a mega-gathering in Verona. The website for the gathering (in Italian, of course) Sandro Magister had an interesting article last week on what he said were some of the implicit tensions in the gathering: Transmitting the faith therefore also means attention to “the quality…
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