- Written by: Alex Walker
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The Benedictine abbot of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, Abbot Martin Werlen, penned a brochure which has caused a bit of uproar: “Discover Together the Embers under the Ashes.” The abbot of Einsiedeln is a member of the Swiss Catholic bishops’ conference.
- Written by: Meghan Murphy-Gill
Reporting straight from the pews after a year of the new translations, U.S. Catholic readers say they are still stumbling through the prayers.
Stilted, awkward, unnatural, strange, choppy, clumsy, obtuse. If you read these words in a movie review, would you head for the ticket line or run in the opposite direction? What about wooden, tortured, terrible, ridiculous, inaccessible, or abominable? Are you at least intrigued by what could warrant such description? Would you want to check it out once a week?
Read more: Words fail us: Parishioners respond to the new Missal a year later
- Written by: Alex Walker
Please use the Diocesan Forums for discussion and a way forward. In order to see the Forums and Post you need to first Login. Only registered users will be able to join the Forums. http://www.acalltoaction.org.uk/forum If anyone would like to moderate and encourage the use of the Forums please email me direct alex@acalltoaction.org.uk
- Written by: Alex Walker
Catholic Social Teaching embodies a tradition of thought which goes back to Aristotle; yet its proponents say that it offers the sharpest critique of rampant capitalism in our present time. Charting a course through the dichotomies of capital versus labour, the free market versus welfare state, public versus private, its aim is to redraw the social and political landscape and put human dignity and virtue back at the centre. Matthew Taylor, former policy advisor to New Labour, ponders the tradition and asks what it might offer to post credit crunch polities which are looking for ways to regenerate.
- Written by: Alex Walker
