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Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

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

  1. 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

  2. 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

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

    July 31, 2026 | Samuel Korb

    Samuel Korb on Dante and Homer.

    Nolan The Odyssey

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  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. 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. 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

  4. 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

  5. Call and Response: Poetry’s Secret Sources

    July 21, 2026 | Paul Mariani

    Paul Mariani on prayer.

    St. Francis in Ecstasy, El Greco

  1. Natural Theology: Characters in Search of Their Author

    August 03, 2026 | Ralph McInerny

    Ralph McInerny on Christian philosophy. 

    Beckmann Actors

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

    July 30, 2026 | Terence Sweeney

    Terence Sweeney on music.

    Billy Joe Shaver

  1. 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

  2. Beyond the Modern Myths of Ancient Athens

    July 06, 2026 | Arlene W. Saxonhouse

    Arlene Saxonhouse on mythmakers.

    Solon Library of Congress

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 10 Principles for Treating Time as Treasure

    June 26, 2026 | Santiago Schnell

    Santiago Schnell on today, now.

    Claesz, Still Life

  1. 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

  1. Why Just War Theory Isn't Enough

    June 23, 2026 | Michael Wee

    Michael Wee on a theology of peace.

    Kollwitz, Pieta

  2. 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)

  3. 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

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

    June 16, 2026 | Donald Graham

    Donald Graham on catechetical reading. 

    weyden, magdalen reading

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. Circling the Tower: The Eucharist and Modernity's Crisis of Transcendence

    June 05, 2026 | Johan Erlandsson-Diaz

    Johan Erlandsson-Diaz on Blondel, Przywara, and Rilke.

    pasternak rilke

  10. Recovering a Passion for Being

    June 02, 2026 | Terence Sweeney

    Terrence Sweeney on fundamental ontology. 

    van gogh sunflowers

  11. The Limits of Willa Cather's Catholic Imagination

    June 01, 2026 | Amy Welborn

    Amy Welborn on literature.

    Willa Cather

  12. A World of Barren Elms: A Review of The Dignity of Dependence

    May 26, 2026 | Jane Peters

    Jane Peters on narrative.

    Munch, Elms in Spring

  13. The Spirit of St. Augustine: Reflecting on the Major Themes of Pope Leo's First Year

    May 25, 2026 | Gregory Grimes

    Gregory Grimes on teaching.

    Pope Leo XIV Inaugurates 'Laudato Si' Village' in Castel Gandolfo
© Mazur/cbcew.org.uk

  14. The Limits of Burnout and the Work of Health Care

    May 22, 2026 | Warren Kinghorn

    Warren Kinghorn on the contemplative life. 

    matches

  15. Stepping Off the Seesaw of Rivalry: An Interview with Jean-Michel Oughourlian

    May 19, 2026 | Michał Łuczewski

    Jean-Michel Oughourlian and mental balance. 

    jean-michel oughourlian

  16. The Gift of Culpability: Technology, Psychology, and Moral Theology

    May 18, 2026 | Maria Morrow

    Maria Morrow on moral theology.

    furtmeyr tree

  17. Who Is the Mother of God?: A Deep Dive Into Lumen Gentium (Part 6)

    May 15, 2026 | John C. Cavadini

    John Cavadini on Our Lady.

    March 6, 2026; Golden Dome and Mary statue (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

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