The Floating Egg

Aldean B. Hen­drick­son is a novice canon­ist from the Great Plains of Amer­ica. Cur­rently in his sec­ond year of grad­u­ate stud­ies in Canon Law, he is look­ing for­ward to a life­time as a stu­dent of (and hope­fully some­day an expert in) the laws of the Catholic Church. In the mean­time he is eager to share what lit­tle he has learned so far, and will­ing to puz­zle things out in pub­lic view.

Mr. Hen­drick­son has a num­ber of par­tic­u­lar inter­ests in the field of canon law (and extend­ing into the con­comi­tant field of the­ol­ogy): eccle­si­ol­ogy, espe­cially the struc­ture and gov­er­nance of the Catholic Church; liturgy and the sacred in wor­ship; sacred lan­guage and ver­nac­u­lar wor­ship; voca­tion and min­is­te­r­ial for­ma­tion; cler­i­cal­ism and cler­i­cal cul­ture; the expand­ing rôle of laity in the Church; and ecu­meni­cal con­ver­sa­tion and commitment.