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September 2013

September 05, 2013

The Borders of the Eucharist

Australia goes to the polls this week, and like many countries in the West, the...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Hope & the Assumption of Mary

The Second Reading in the Roman Catholic Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Good Friday & the Prevailing Order (Repost)

A line in the Evening Liturgy of the Hours for Tuesday of Holy Week reminds...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Ratzinger and Liturgy: The Cosmos and Facing East

On this day, Pope Benedict XVI returns to his status as Joseph Ratzinger, only with...

February 22, 2013

Prayer, Sincerity and Economy

Many Christians do not like liturgical prayers. The seemingly mechanistic corporate drones that are the...

February 13, 2013

Valentine’s Day: A Lenten Exercise

Valentine's Day has been set aside to celebrate the joys of human love. For many...

February 07, 2013

Discipleship in Your Sleep

In the monastic life, every single day is bookended by the recitation of the Liturgy...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

The Third Coming of Christ

The Christian Church is three days into the Christmas season, the period that commemorates the...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

July 2012

July 12, 2012

On Liturgy, Tradition and Innovation

The prolific James KA Smith has penned another informative article on the issue of whether...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

Bonaventure for Environmentalists

In a previous post, reference was made to the necessity for the Christian to be...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

A Theology of Running Away?

One constant, but perhaps under-discussed, theme within pop culture is the theme of running away....

May 04, 2012

What the Church Offers to Grieving Players of “Mass Effect 3”

Internet fora have been burning hot processing posts expressing shock and anger at a seemingly...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Saving Souls Through the Flesh?

The political philosopher Eric Voegelin long argued that Modernity was marked by an undercurrent of...

March 09, 2012

Play, Liturgy and the Salvation of the World

At a recent conference organised by the Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, delegates would have...

March 02, 2012

Communication, Form, and Place

Steve Martin once said that you cannot play a sad song on a banjo, indicating...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Christian and Cybernetic Time: The Case of Facebook’s Timeline

Kirk Bozeman has provided a thought-provoking piece in Christ and Pop Culture concerning the latest...

February 21, 2012

Benedict XVI on the Indispensability of Monasteries

The Vatican Information Service reported that, at a 9th October 2011 visit to the Carthusian...

February 10, 2012

The Epistemology of the Mass

In a culture dominated by the consumer mindset, many tend to treat the Mass as...

January 2012

January 07, 2012

Beyond 12 Days of Christmas: Feasts of the Epiphany and Mary the Mother of God

The combination of a well entrenched secularism and the intensification of consumer culture has led...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

The Problematique of “Relevant” Liturgical Music (And Happy New Year)

Liturgists are often keen to make liturgical music "relevant" for the people, and this attitude...

December 02, 2011

Celebrity: What Kylie and Universities Have in Common?

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently reported on Anglia Ruskin University's decision to grant an honorary...

November 2011

November 11, 2011

Protestant Monasticism: An Interview with Shane Claiborne

Many protestants of the Evangelical persuasion, especially those in the Emergent Church movement, are rediscovering...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

How to Bless Beer: the Rituale Romanum

As a follow up to two previous posts featuring quotes on drinking by GK Chesterton...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

Text, Beauty and Community

Neil Postman, an American media theorist associated with New York University, wrote a passage that...

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Consumerism and Christianity: An Interview with William Cavanaugh

The protestant website 100Huntley.com recently did a a short but highly informative interview with the...

June 12, 2011

The Unseen Hazards of Technologically Enhanced Liturgy

We talk a lot about the hidden dangers in our food brought about by the...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

Practice, Identity and Amazonians

Friday's online edition of the BBC had a report about a fascinating, if somewhat controversial,...

May 15, 2011

The Clock, Secular Culture and the Noontime Demon

An earlier post spoke of the importance of the constructed nature of how we in...

May 04, 2011

Benedictine and Commercial Liturgies: A View from Norcia

Norcia, a tiny town in the Italian region of Umbria, is noted for two things....