On November 27, 2011, The Roman Missal, Third Edition was implemented in the United States.
- What is the appropriate role of written liturgy in worship?
- Should worship take place in the vernacular, or in a sacral language unfamiliar to most worshippers? Are there benefits to each?
- To what extent is religious faith comprehended intellectually? To what extent is it experienced? Are these two modes of spiritual learning in tension, or are they complementary?
- What role do politics and bureaucracy play in ecclesial organizations?
- What effects, positive or negative, has the Protestant Reformation had on Western and global culture? Is it healthy for the Christian tradition to have so many denominations? Would it be preferable to have a unified Church? Has such a Church ever existed? To what extent does it, or could it, exist?
