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Power of Silence

Essay

Silence and the Meaning of the Mass

May 30, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 11

Robert Cardinal Sarah’s recent book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise explores a number of themes both theological and spiritual, all centering around the unhappy role that noise has come to play in our […]

The Dispatch

Benedict XVI: “With Cardinal Sarah … the liturgy is in good hands.”

May 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 0

First Things has published an essay, written by Benedict XVI, that will be an afterword in future printings of Robert Cardinal Sarah’s recently published book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (Ignatius […]

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