Sean C. Thomas is a Ph.D. Candidate in Practical Theology at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He uses data, intercultural insights, and practical theology to find ways for the Church to help people more effectively in various places across the world.

Is Eucharistic Adoration Really an Idle Retreat from the World? What Interviews with Worshippers Reveal

What might we see and hear if we asked worshippers about what they experience? It isn’t always what theologians expect. For the past few decades, many Catholic liturgical theologians and others have expressed concern about the return of a ritual practice that they worried signaled a regression from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.…