Pastoral Liturgy and Pope Francis: Introduction

"Pastoral Liturgy and Pope Francis: Introduction." Liturgy, 33(2), pp. 1–2

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Pope Francis, “Chrism Mass Homily,” http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130328_messa-crismale.html (accessed March 28, 2013). In this homily, Pope Francis instructs priests in the following manner: “This I ask you: be shepherds, with the ‘odour of the sheep,’ make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.”

See Jean Vanier et al., “Great Expectations,” US Catholic Historian 78, no. 5 (2013): 17–22.

Brian Roewe, “Election Raises Alarm for Some Latin Mass Fans,” National Catholic Reporter 49, no. 12 (2013): 10. For a constructive view of Pope Francis’ approach to foot washing, see Thomas O’Loughlin, “From a Damp Floor to a New Vision of Church: Footwashing as a Challenge to Liturgy and Discipleship,” Worship 88, no. 2 (2014): 137–50.

Pope Francis focused on this theme on the anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Liturgical Action in Rome. See Pope Francis, “A Living Liturgy for a Living Church: Audience with the Participants in the 68th National Liturgical Week,” August 24, 2017, https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/08/24/170824c.html.

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Katharine E. Harmon

Katharine E. Harmon is Assistant Professor of Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-59 (Liturgical Press, 2013).