Podcast: How Our Western Culture Works For and Against Our Liturgical Cult
Nov 29, 2023

Podcast: How Our Western Culture Works For and Against Our Liturgical Cult

Is our liturgical capacity at all limited because of the age we live in? If the answer is in the affirmative, then we must ask: in what ways are we limited, and how should we respond? Furthermore, is it possible that our liturgical capacity could continue to decrease until it is lost altogether? With the help of Romano Guardini, Andrew Keathler addresses post-modern man’s liturgical capacity—or incapacity—in his November Bulletin entry, “Intimations of God: Toward a Catholic Integration of Rite, Culture, and the Contemporary Person”—the conclusions of which he discusses with Jesse Weiler in this month’s Adoremus Interview.

Andrew TJ Kaethler

Andrew TJ Kaethler, PhD, is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Theology at Catholic Pacific College, Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Kaethler specializes in theological anthropology, particularly in the work of Joseph Ratzinger and Alexander Schmemann. He has published in various journals including Modern Theology, New Blackfriars, Pontificia Academia Theologica, and Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. With Sotiris Mitralexis he has co-edited two edited volumes; the latest is titled Mapping the Una Sancta: Eastern and Western Ecclesiology in the Twenty-First Century (2023). His most recent monograph The Eschatological Person: Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue was published with Cascade Books in 2022. Kaethler lives in Langley with his wife and six kids.