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Editor's Notes: Liturgical Catechesis

The theme of this issue of The Sower is liturgical catechesis, with a particular emphasis on the place of art and architecture. It was a topic dear to the heart of the very first editor of The Sower, Canon Francis Drinkwater, who founded this catechetical journal in 1919. Drinkwater was a pioneer in the movement to root catechesis more closely in the liturgy. In 1948, for example, in an article, ‘Catechesis and the Liturgy’, he argued that teaching the faith should be an ‘overflow’ from the celebration of the Mass and should explain ‘the real inward meaning of the Mass’, that of ‘sacrifice, as between man and God’.

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Dr. Petroc Willey BD, STL PhD, PhD (Lateran) studied theology at King's College, London and Maynooth in Ireland and philosophy at Liverpool University in England and the Lateran University in Rome. From 1985-1992, he was Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Plater College, Oxford. From 1992 until October 2013 he worked at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, where he was Dean of Graduate Research overseeing a doctoral program in Catholic Studies at the Maryvale Institute, offered in collaboration with Liverpool Hope University. He was appointed by Benedict XVI as a Consultor for the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization and is currently a Consultor for the Dicastery for Evangelization. He is a professor at Franciscan University for the Office of Catechetics. His publications include Become What You Are: The Call and Gift of Marriage (with Katherine Willey), and The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Craft of Catechesis (co-authored with Professor Barbara Morgan and Fr. Pierre de Cointet, and with an introduction by Cardinal Schonborn), and has articles in collections of essays and in journals such as The International Journal for Catechesis and Evangelization, New Blackfriars, Faith, The Nazareth Journal, The Catholic Canadian Review. He was the Host of the EWTN series Handing on the Faith (2007).

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