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THE PIOUS GUIDE AND EARLY AMERICAN CATHOLICISM

by Matthew Gallegos
While the Mass was an important liturgical activity that transpired within Catholic churches, The Pious Guide makes clear that churches also served as the setting for a wide range of public and private devotions. A church’s design was required to accommodate both liturgical and devotional prayer.

A Cathedral's Treasure: The Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sioux Falls

by William J. Turner
This bishop is in the forefront of what I hope will be a modern movement to encourage in this age what the people of the Middle Ages believed and understood. They were willing to support and express what they believed in their sacred buildings.

Church Architecture and the Corporal Works of Mercy: A New Kind of Aid to Columbia

by Michael S. Rose
When Father John McGuire left the United States to serve as a missionary priest in Cali, Colombia, he quickly came to realize the extreme need of the common people on the streets—those who have been most affected by the illegal drug trafficking and the many civil war conflicts.

An Empty Stage or Heaven Apprehended: New Episcopal Architecture

by Robert L. Woodbury
There is little said about the architecture that defines this liturgical space, and what is said is an apology for modernist minimalism. Clarity and openness, without confusion and clutter, are necessary for good worship.

Featured Book Review:
The Spirit of the Liturgy by Pope Benedict XVI

reviewed by Dino Marcantonio
It is the disarming clarity of his meditation that catches the attention of the designer, who by now has grown numb to the equivocations, deliberate ambiguities, and often downright faithlessness of recent trends in liturgical thinking.

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