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No more Yahweh in liturgical music
Submitted by MollyJ on August 16, 2008 - 10:06am. --- Spirituality & CultureI thought maybe this would show up on the web sites news feed but it apparently did not. Here is the link from the Catholic News Service:
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804119.htm
Here is a quote from the story:
"Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, announced the new Vatican 'directives on the use of "the name of God" in the sacred liturgy' in an Aug. 8 letter to his fellow bishops.
On Political Use of Catechisms: Vs. Fundamentalist Attempts to Capture "the" Truth
Submitted by William D. Lindsey on August 16, 2008 - 4:21pm. --- Ethical DebatesIn response to the way the Catholic Catechism is often cited on threads of the NCR blog café, I’ve recently been mulling over the how the catechism is used today in discussions in which politics and theology intersect. It strikes me that some Catholic political activists allied with the religious right are intent to use the catechism to marginalize voices that do not read the Catholic tradition as these political activists do—-that is, to support a neoconservative political agenda.
