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St. Monica of Hippo: Mother of Tears

August 27, 2026 | Veronica Roberts Ogle

Veronica Roberts Ogle on motherhood.

St. Monica

  1. The Terrain of Neuroscience: Brain, Consciousness, and Identity (Part 1)

    August 10, 2026 | Angela Franks

    Angela Franks on access to reality.

    Wyspianski self-portrait 1905

  2. Fidelity to Early Christian Sources: Rethinking Authority and Unity in Christian Marriage

    August 17, 2026 | Muireann Lynch

    Muireann Lynch on marriage. 

    Early Christian sarcophagus

  3. The Way of Beauty: A Focal Point of Recent Church Teaching

    August 14, 2026 | Timothy Schilling

    Timothy Schilling on beauty saving the world.

    Sagrada Familia, all rights reserved

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  1. Augustine's Christology: Its Rhetoric and Spirituality

    August 25, 2026 | Rowan Williams

    Rowan Williams on Wisdom. 

    Marc Arcis statues of St. Augustine, not public doman

  2. Late Have I Loved Thee: Returning Home to Rome with St. Augustine

    August 24, 2026 | H. W. Coates

    H. W. Coates on conversion. 

    Augustine in Troyes Cathedral, not public domain

  3. The Internet Isn't Our Home: On Becoming Digital Good Samaritans

    August 21, 2026 | Noah Bradon

    Noah Bradon on serving. 

    Good Samaritan

  4. Is Aristotelianism Self-Subversive?: A Case Study

    August 20, 2026 | Alasdair MacIntyre

    Alasdair MacIntyre on the heirs of The Philosopher.

    Aristotle and Phyllis

  5. Why AI Can't Care for Creation

    August 18, 2026 | Matthew Ramage and Samuel Shephard

    Ramage and Shephard on embodiment. 

    Vaporwave unicorn

  1. The Trojan Horse Reimagined: Original Sin in Nolan's Odyssey

    July 31, 2026 | Samuel Korb

    Samuel Korb on Dante and Homer.

    Nolan The Odyssey

  1. On Being Glass: Saint Clare of Assisi and the Franciscan Charism

    August 11, 2026 | Travis Lacy

    Travis Lacy on the law of the mirror.

    Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

  2. The Throne of God and the Glory of Christ

    August 07, 2026 | Mike Johns

    Mike Johns on the Bible.

    Book of Kells, Christ Enthroned

  3. The Beautiful Invisible: Jan Twardowski’s Poetic Lessons on Loving in Solitude

    August 06, 2026 | Grzegorz Ignatik

    Grzegorz Ignatik on a Polish priest-poet.

    Jan Twardowski monument, Warsaw, some rights reserved

  4. Natural Theology: Characters in Search of Their Author

    August 03, 2026 | Ralph McInerny

    Ralph McInerny on Christian philosophy. 

    Beckmann Actors

  5. Country Music, Sin, and Grace: Sing Me More Songs About Jesus

    July 30, 2026 | Terence Sweeney

    Terence Sweeney on music.

    Billy Joe Shaver

  1. Darkness Visible: On Cormac McCarthy's The Road

    August 04, 2026 | Cyril O'Regan

    Cyril O'Regan on the road.

    road at nigh, some rights reserved

  1. Mental Illness and the Call of the Church

    July 28, 2026 | Margaret Musso

    Margaret Musso on continuing the legacy of Father Juan Gilabert-Jofre. 

    Fr Jofre

  2. Grappling with Evil in a Redeemed World

    July 27, 2026 | Brandon Peterson and Robert Krieg

    Peterson and Krieg on undoing evil.

    Emmett Till and mother

  3. Gods, Myths, and a New Vision: Genesis and the Transformation of the World

    July 24, 2026 | James Ungureanu

    James Ungereanu on biblical revelation. 

    Bibilical Prophets hortus

  4. Call and Response: Poetry’s Secret Sources

    July 21, 2026 | Paul Mariani

    Paul Mariani on prayer.

    St. Francis in Ecstasy, El Greco

  5. Turning off the Highway to Hell?: Pelagianism Has Become Catholic Common Sense

    July 20, 2026 | Roberto J. De La Noval

    Roberto De La Noval on grace.

    augustine in naumber altar

  1. Martyr of Love: Explorations of Christian Eloquence

    August 13, 2026 | Joshua Whitfield

    Fr. Joshua Whitfield on Cicero.

    Fulvia and Cicero

  1. Catholicism and Monsters: At the Borders of the Beautiful

    July 17, 2026 | Anne M. Carpenter

    Anne Carpenter on the unlovely.

    still from Netflix show Blue Eye Samurai, fair use

  2. The Bumpy Ride of the 20th-Century French Church

    July 14, 2026 | Jean Duchesne

    Jean Duchesne on the eldest daughter of the Church. 

    Chartres pilgrimage

  3. The Bookkeeping of Memory: Judgment and Justice in True Grit

    July 13, 2026 | LuElla D’Amico

    LuElla D'Amico on the final word.

    Still from True Grit

  4. Philip Kolin’s Meekness: How Will the Meek Inherit the Earth?

    July 10, 2026 | Ann Astell

    Sr. Ann Astell on the craft of poetry.

    Meekness Art Institute Chicago

  5. Balthasar and Heidegger: Theology and Binding the Strongman

    July 07, 2026 | Cyril O'Regan

    Cyril O'Reagan on the Anatomy of Misremembering II.

    fighting a revenant

  6. Beyond the Modern Myths of Ancient Athens

    July 06, 2026 | Arlene W. Saxonhouse

    Arlene Saxonhouse on mythmakers.

    Solon Library of Congress

  7. Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy Then and Now: Breaking and Entering the American Style

    July 03, 2026 | David Griffith

    David Griffith on going for truth.

    All the President's Men poster

  8. The Humanities and the Birds of Appetite

    June 30, 2026 | Jennifer Newsome Martin

    Jennifer Martin on peregrinations. 

    June 27, 2017; A hawk flies away from LaFortune Student Center. (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

  9. 10 Principles for Treating Time as Treasure

    June 26, 2026 | Santiago Schnell

    Santiago Schnell on today, now.

    Claesz, Still Life

  10. Why Just War Theory Isn't Enough

    June 23, 2026 | Michael Wee

    Michael Wee on a theology of peace.

    Kollwitz, Pieta

  11. The Church Is a Mixed Body: Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian Holiness in a Violent World

    June 22, 2026 | Timothy P. O’Malley

    Timothy O'Malley on the new Donatism.

    November 14, 2025; University of Notre Dame President Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. greets Pope Leo XIV during a private audience in The Vatican. (Photo provided by Vatican Media)

  12. Healing the Wounded Body, Part 3: Ecclesial Practices of Making Reparation

    June 19, 2026 | Michael Baxter

    Michael Baxter on reparations. 

    five generation on smith plantation

  13. Lessons from Newman: Reading As an Act of Homage

    June 16, 2026 | Donald Graham

    Donald Graham on catechetical reading. 

    weyden, magdalen reading

  14. Are They Really Catholic?: 4 New Models of Catholic Identity

    June 15, 2026 | Andrew Courter

    Andrew Courter on Catholic schools.

    Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome (Giovanni Paolo Panini)

  15. Everything That Breathes: The Place of Material Creation in the Eschatological Church

    June 12, 2026 | Vincent Davila

    Vincent Davila, OP on eschatology.

    Ringed kingfisher flying with a fish in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent

  16. My Theological Life: Recollections and Anticipations

    June 09, 2026 | Cyril O'Regan

    Cyril O'Regan on his career.

    November 22, 2017; Theology professor Cyril O’Regan give a lecture on faith and reason in a secular age. The lecture at Newman University Church in Dublin, Ireland was part of the inaugural events of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason. (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

  17. Thinking as Handicraft: Pope Leo XIV and the Joy of Writing

    June 08, 2026 | Chad Engelland

    Chad Engelland on the written word.

    Botticelli's Magnificat

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