2017
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…
New Orleans and the Catholic Imagination
Today is Mardi Gras. Timothy P. O'Malley treats the celebration of Mardi Gras as a way of understanding how to keep Holy Lent. Not with sadness but with hope.
Editorial Musings: Does Evangelization Require Cultural Catholics?
Cultural Catholicism isn't something that should be dismissed in the New Evangelization. Rather, cultural Catholicism is needed through work of monks.
The Light By Which We See: The Problem of Promise and Identity
Editors' Note: This post is an excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter of DeLorenzo’s new book Witness: Learning to Tell the Story of Grace That Illumine Our Lives, published by and reprinted with the permission of Ave Mari...
Stories of Grace: Episode 11
"I cannot even put it into words, but it was as if God picked my fearful body up as my mom had when I was a little girl, and held me in His arms until I was calm. It was then that I knew that God would not let me suffer from this f...
Editorial Musings: Does the Church Need the Arts?
Church Life takes up this week a key question: Does the Church need the arts? Do the arts need the Church? How might we rebuild a marriage that is necessary for the New Evangelization?
Editorial Musings: Is Hypermasculinity a Problem?
This week, in honor of the Edith Stein Conference taking place at Notre Dame, Church Life is focusing on themes related to gender and human sexuality. A recent M.Div. graduate, China Weil, thinks about
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