March 2017
Summer Symposia 2017: Reading the Bible Liturgically
Among contemporary Catholic evangelization programs, you often hear about the importance of the Scriptures. You hear that a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is mediated through our reading of the Bible both privately and in groups...
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...
Stories of Grace: Episode 13
"I think that, if we’re lucky in this life, we’ll get to come across perhaps three or four really really good ponds." Really good ponds I think that, if…
An Ethic of Listening
I love to write and speak—definitely a verbal processor—but I wouldn’t say I’m naturally a good listener. This double-edged sword makes me an effective rhetorician but also a candidate for what St. Paul refers to ...
Globalized Secularity: An American-British Problem
Editor’s Note: This week, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and the editor of Church Life is visiting the United Kingdom to give a series of talks on liturgy and secularization. He is also beginning an inter-discipl...
Westminster Cathedral and the Secular
Editor's Note: This week, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and the editor of Church Life is visiting the United Kingdom to give a series of talks on liturgy and secularization. He is also beginning an inter-disciplinary ...
Can Liturgy Heal a Secular Age?
Timothy P. O'Malley on how liturgy can be healing of a secular age. But only if we understand secularity and ritual well.
The Rosary: Back to the Basics
ND Graduate Sami Burr on teaching Catholicism to middle-schoolers.
Can We Get Lent Wrong?
Timothy O'Malley on the various ways that we can get Lent wrong.
5 Lenten Practices that Aren't Giving Up Chocolate
With Ash Wednesday now come and gone, Catholics everywhere embark on their journey of Lenten disciplines. Lenten penitence can quickly begin to feel rote. While there is still great spiritual benefit in denying ourselves dessert or Netfl...
Stories of Grace: Episode 12
"It's a messy business, drowning in God's love and grace." Humility After Pride On the 29th morning of October in the year 1994, my mother lost her favorite…
