Cardinal Robert Sarah

Transcending Catholic tribalism
- Commentary
- August 4, 2017
The old phrase, “lex orandi lex credendi” (how you pray is how you believe) gives weight to the observation that the external differences are the manifestation of a deeper divide. In other words, Old Order Catholics and New Order Catholics behave differently because they believe differently. Can the chasm be bridged by liturgical rapprochement?
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Why the Catholic Church bans gluten-free communion wafers
- Associated Press
- July 23, 2017
The letter that was released recently from the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship had some people, especially those suffering from celiac disease, wondering why gluten must remain in the host. Joanne M. Pierce of the College of the Holy Cross explains a bit of the history.
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Vatican asks bishops to ensure validity of matter for Eucharist
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- July 10, 2017
A circular letter, “On the bread and wine for the Eucharist,” was sent to diocesan bishops “at the request of the Holy Father, Pope Francis.” Dated June 15 — the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ — the letter was made public by the Vatican July 8. The document underlined that every bishop “is bound to remind priests, especially parish priests and rectors of churches, of their responsibility to verify those who provide the bread and wine for the celebration and the worthiness of the material.”
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Cardinal Sarah against the dictatorship of noise
- Vatican
- June 27, 2017
In a new book, Cardinal Robert Sarah warns against equating silence with simply staying quiet: Silence is the manifestation of a presence, “the most intense of all presences.” The cardinal says modern man is capable of all sorts of noise, all sorts of wars, and so many solemn false statements, in an infernal chaos, because he has excluded God from his life.
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Cardinal-watch: Maradiaga bashes Burke, as Benedict lauds Sarah
- Vatican
- May 19, 2017
While the coordinator of the pope’s ‘C9’ council of cardinal advisers has dismissed American Cardinal Raymond Burke as a ‘disappointed man’ upset with his loss of power, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has defended Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea as someone with whom the Church’s liturgy is in “good hands.”
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Cardinal Sarah: True liturgy is a reflection of heaven
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- April 1, 2017
In a speech given to the 18th Cologne International Liturgical Conference, Cardinal Robert Sarah said both the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the liturgy should bring to the faithful “the beauty of the liturgy, its sacredness, the silence, the recollection, the mystical dimension, and adoration.”
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