Liturgy, Prayer, And Potatoes
By SHAUN KENNEY Let’s start with the sudden surge for allowing laywomen (and putatively, laymen as well) to give homilies from the pulpit. No — and not just a little no, but an emphatic no. Reasons for this are simple, as lay members no matter what their education have not been given the charism of the munus docendi — namely, the office of teaching. Priests are specifically given three munera: teaching, sanctifying, and governing. What is more interesting to me is the suddenness of this “debate” in Catholic media. Fr. James Martin, SJ, is positively enthusiastic about the idea. Cardinal Marx is predictably enthusiastic. The pressure is on in a big way — right up until someone reminds the “reformers…Continue Reading