Engagement with culture must be central to Catholic life, cardinal says - Catholic Review

Engagement with culture must be central to Catholic life, cardinal says - Catholic Review

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics cannot confine their faith to the liturgy but must fully engage and dialogue with the culture that surrounds them, said the cardinal responsible for the church’s engagement with the world of culture. “We cannot close the Christian experience in a kind of parenthesis that is only the liturgy,” Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, told Catholic News Service Feb. 14.…

Engagement with culture must be central to Catholic life, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça says - The Dialog

VATICAN CITY — Catholics cannot confine their faith to the liturgy but must fully engage and dialogue with the culture that surrounds them, said the cardinal responsible for the church’s engagement with the world of culture. “We cannot close the Christian experience in a kind of parenthesis that is only the liturgy,” Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, told Catholic News Service Feb. 14. “Cult…

Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça will replace Pope Francis at the mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture, on Sunday, the Vatican announced today, quoted by the Ecclesia agency. José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery of Culture and Education, will preside over the mass after the cancellation […]