Liturgical Studies

Following our Commencement ceremony on May 9, 2013, newly minted Dr. Ricky Manalo ('13) was profiled by the Catholic Sentinel. During Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, two of Manalo's compositions were selected for Mass.

Father Ricky Manalo, a priest in the Paulist order, earned a doctorate in Asian-American liturgical studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Father Manalo, who served at St. Philip Neri Church as associate pastor in the early 2000s, is a composer for OCP, publisher of the Catholic...

by Pierre R. Berastain, Student, Harvard Divinity School; Co-Chair, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Domestic Violence Coalition; Director of Media Relations, Hispanic Black Gay Coalition

Original post: "The Gospel of Art," HuffingtonPost, December 27, 2012

Recently, I spoke with Harvard Divinity School Professor Sharon Fennema about the role of art in religion, spirituality and worship. Read on to see what we lose or neglect if we don't incorporate...

January 8, 2012 - The 2012 Berakah Award, given each year to honor an outstanding contributor to liturgical scholarship, was presented to the Rev. Dr. Louis Weil at the annual meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy, held January 4–8 in Montreal. Dr. Weil, the author of numerous articles and several books including Liturgy for Living, had served as James F. Hodges Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific until his recent retirement from the classroom.