An Honest Look at the Consequences of Overturning Roe v. Wade
Jessica Keating on the Supreme Court.
Jessica Keating Floyd
Jessica Keating Floyd is the director of the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity, where she engages in scholarship that strives to recover the concept of human dignity for the theological and philosophical imagination.
Articles
Groundbreaking National Study Shows That Americans Struggle to Think Coherently About Abortion
Jessica Keating on the real need for Pro-Life education programs.
If Men Could Get Pregnant They Would Demand Something Better Than Abortion
Jessica Keating on the pro-life movement after June Medical Services v. Russo.
The Church Has a Morbid Streak
Jessica Keating, Dir. of the Office of Human Dignity and Life Initiatives at the Institute for Church Life, dives into the strange ironies of sainthood.St. Francis of Assisi: Icon of the Hospitable Imagination
Jessica Keating argues, following St. Francis, that putting on Christ in baptism does not mean putting on only that part of Christ I agree with.
Artificial Wombs and the Intellectual Tasks of Building Cultures of Life
When Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met with artists in the Sistine chapel in 2009, he noted that “an essential function of genuine beauty, as emphasized by Plato, is that it gives man a healthy 'shock,' it draws him out of himself, wr...St. Maximilian Kolbe and the War Against Indifference
More than one concentration camp survivor has remarked that one would need the pen of Dante to describe the horrors that afflicted the “great army of unknown and unrecorded victims.”[1] Hell is that abyss that skews vision an...
Editorial Musings: Sacramental Formation in a Secular Age
In early 1950s Rome, two women—a biblical scholar and a Montessori-trained educator—began the great catechetical experiment known as Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. In a way, Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi’s partner...Time and America's Pastime: Baseball with My Dad
Moments before the opening pitch of a Giants-Cardinals doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in the summer of 1934, my dad remembers Jerome “Dizzy” Dean strutting up and down the length of the Giants dugout. The scrappy Cardinals ...
The Love of the Hound of Heaven
One morning sometime in the middle of August about ten years ago, I lay awake on an uncomfortable bed in my bedroom, which was tucked above the stairs in the Cottage, one of the volunteer houses at Red Cloud Indian School where I was pre...Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Cultivating the Christian Imagination of the Child
Recently I was talking to a mother of two young children, who explained that she drops her youngest son off at childcare while she attends Mass because “he is too young to get anything out of it.” Implicit in her remark is th...
Debunking Abortion Myths: Part 3
In just over a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans will gather on the National Mall to protest the their country’s abortion policy, which ranks among the most permissive in the world. As abortion rates reach their lowest level...Debunking Abortion Myths: Part 2
Political rhetoric often gives the impression that Americans’ views on abortion may be neatly categorized along ideological, generation, and gender lines. However, this ethereal narrative blurs and even obscures the on-the-ground r...Debunking Abortion Myths: Part 1
Jessica Keating, Director of the ND Institute for Church Life Human Dignity & Life Initiatives, sets to demythologizing abortion commonplaces.Searching for Christ
T.S. Eliot writes in the third of his Four Quartets, “The Dry Salvages,” “We had the experience but missed the meaning” (II.44). In a single line, Eliot illuminates the affliction of fallen humanity: we are, in th...Waiting in the Mystery of Hope
What surprises me, says God, is hope.—Charles Péguy, The Portal to the Mystery of Hope Every Advent I sit around a small prayer table with four-year-olds and contemplate the great mystery of messianic hope announced by the&#...
Three 'Single' Thoughts on Marriage
Thinking about marriage is not simply something that married people can do. Here, a single woman reflects on the gift of marriage through her own vocation.