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What Can You Do with a Liberal Education?Nothing speaks more to the versatility of the College’s academic program than the good that our alumni are doing throughout the Church and the world.
On Writing and the Sacred Liturgy: Joseph O’Brien (’93)
Following up on our recent posts about alumni journalists Christina (Andres ’82) Deardurff and Lauretta Brown (’13), is the news that Joseph O’Brien (’93) is now the managing editor of the Adoremus Bulletin. Published by the Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy, the journal is dedicated to the authentic renewal of the Sacred Liturgy according to the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium.
An experienced journalist, Mr. O’Brien has been writing about Church matters for nearly two decades. After earning a master’s degree in English at the University of Dallas, he taught high school and middle school before becoming a writer for The Catholic Times, the diocesan newspaper of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1999. He has also worked for various publishing houses, most notably Tuscany Press. At Adoremus, he is responsible for editing the journal’s text as well as some light writing. (Recent work includes two interviews with Rev. Dennis Gill, rector of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, who helped coordinate the liturgies for Pope Francis’s recent visit to that city. See parts one and two.)
“It’s no secret that the liturgy around the country needs a lot of work, and our hope with Adoremus is to be able to give priests and other readers a good understanding of what the Church is. We hope to reflect that,” he says. “We’re not trying to spark a revolution, so to speak, as much as to continue the renewal called for by the Second Vatican Council and all the popes, especially Benedict XVI and continuing with Pope Francis. The Liturgy brings Heaven to earth, and being part of that is a real joy.”