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2017

A Letter to the Newly-Baptized

| Timothy P. O’Malley

To the Newly-Baptized: You may already feel it—the fact that this journey you are on made a significant transition when you were baptized. Though you remain on the same path towards Christ, your landscape and means for getting ther...

Stories of Grace: Episode 14

| Leah Jacob

"I am dust. I feel like dust, or at least, like I am worth as much. I can’t sleep, so I kneel beside my bed, close my eyes, and silently ask God, “Why me?” I am... COLD December 2013 I am cold and alone with the monster...

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Editorial Musings: The Charism of Infertility

| Timothy P. O’Malley

Over the last year, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the sacrament of marriage while teaching a course to undergraduates on precisely this topic. As I teach this course, I'm always amazed by the gift of sacramental marriage in ecc...

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Summer Symposia 2017: Reading the Bible Liturgically

| Timothy P. O’Malley

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...

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The Love of the Hound of Heaven

| Jessica Keating Floyd

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

| Madeline Infantine

"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…

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An Ethic of Listening

| Claire Fyrqvist

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 ...

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Globalized Secularity: An American-British Problem

| Timothy P. O’Malley

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...

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Westminster Cathedral and the Secular

| Timothy P. O’Malley

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 ...

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