A lay columnist proposes a provocative hypothesis: that in some priests, devotion to the liturgy has stopped being …
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Decoding challenges facing the global Church through contemporary theology.
Interpreting contemporary realities through the lens of the Bible and the Church’s Magisterium.
The Christian East viewed through faith, history, and dialogue.

A lay columnist proposes a provocative hypothesis: that in some priests, devotion to the liturgy has stopped being …

Carla Pérez Sosa is a lay Catholic writer.
Carla Pérez Sosa argues that some priests’ rigid liturgical perfectionism may be less about piety than an unmet need to be seen, drawing on a real Argentine seminary-formation document and Frédéric Martel’s work on Vatican secrecy.
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