Questions raised by Pope Francis' document on the liturgy
Francis has much to offer here, but many would suggest he does not fully understand the interplay between ritual actions and the mysteries to which they point.
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Francis has much to offer here, but many would suggest he does not fully understand the interplay between ritual actions and the mysteries to which they point.
Few look back and say: “Ten or twenty years ago I thought X was very wrong. Why, I wonder, do I accept X as something to be supported and approved today?”
There is no perfect way to construct a government, but secular constitutional battles can be a distraction from far deeper realities, and far deeper problems.
But how do we determine what goods are “due” to the human person, what goods are “proper” to his or her human nature?
Our reflections on both the newly married and the newly deceased are colored by our human conviction that only a very vicious God could object to their sincerity.