Stations of the Cross 13-14: This Is Ground Zero, Emptiness and Space
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 7) this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
March 2018
Easter Sunday: That Flesh on Which Salvation Hinges
Irina Celentano, Master of Theology student at Duke University, uses the Latin Father Tertullian to flesh out the Resurrection.
Stations of the Cross 11-12: His Final Breath Breathes and Bears Us
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 6) this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
Holy Saturday: Healing through the Crucified One
Michael Altenburger, PhD candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, on why Christianity is not a solution to suffering in this life.
Stations of the Cross 9-10: In the Cold Hell Where You Freeze
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 5) this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
Good Friday: Creation Always Exists in Darkness
Domenic Canonico, MTS student at the University of Notre Dame, contemplates the Trinity through William Congdon's depiction of Good Friday's sublime suffering.
Stations of the Cross 7-8: The Cruel Repetitions of Our Cruelty
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 4) this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
Holy Thursday: When Love Enters a Cosmos Turned in on Itself
Msgr. Michael Heintz, Associate Professor of Theology at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, untwists the consequences of the Incarnation in a fallen world.
Stations of the Cross 5-6: Bystanders and Bypassers Turn Away
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
Martyrdom Is No Bloodless Myth
Jay Martin, PhD candidate in systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame, reviews the theology of martyrdom after liberation theology.
Stations of the Cross 3-4: Divinity and Dust
During Holy Week Malcolm Guite (poet) & Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 2) with a combination of poetry, music, & prose.
The Storming of the Winter Palace
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winning author and Russian dissident, dramatizes the storming of the Winter Palace during the Russian Revolution.
Stations of the Cross 1-2: As Pilate Turns Away
Malcolm Guite (poet) and Carolyn Pirtle (composer) take us through the Stations of the Cross (pt. 1) this Holy Week with a combination of poetry, music, and prose.
Sacramentalized but Not Evangelized?
Timothy P. O'Malley questions the coherence of the well-known phrase.
Not All Sacrifice Saves
Peter Nguyen SJ deconstructs Ernst Jünger's modernist logic of sacrifice.
Active Love Is a Harsh and Fearful Thing
Kristen Drahos, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, places the logic of sacrifice in the midst of the everyday.
The Gift of Modernity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology, distinguishes the cheerers, weepers, and shadow-seers of modernity.
Can We Feast Unless We Fast?
John Meinert, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University Assistant Professor of Theology, discloses how penance trains us to properly rejoice in God.
The Sacrifice of Sagging Flesh
Jeffrey Bishop pits the power of ageing flesh against transhumanist agelessness.
Why Do Catholics Venerate the Arms and Tongues and Blood of Saints?
Carolyn Pirtle, Program Director of the ND Center for Liturgy & composer of liturgical music, probes the relationship between relics and sacrifice.
Why Would Young People Want to Remain Catholic?
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life lecturer and chief organizer of the Cultures of Formation conference, examines the challenges facing Synod 2018.
The Great Books Aren't Timeless, But They Can Still Teach Us
Anthony Barr, frequent contributor to Ethika Politika and the Circe Institute, looks at the Great Books from a completely different angle.
Natural Family Planning and the Myth of Catholic Contraception
Michael Wee, Education Officer of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, explains the differences between two rival versions of marriage.
How to Reclaim the Literal Interpretation of the Bible
Noelle Johnson, intern for the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute, clears up confusions about the real meaning of the Bible's literal sense.
Homo AvocadoPanem: An Anthropology of the Millennial Imagination
Renée D. Roden, ND MTS student and graduate fellow of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, serves up sacrifice without avocado to Millennials.
The Cross Must Be Deeply Ugly to Be Beautiful
Nathaniel Peters, Executive Director of the Morningside Institute and lecturer at Columbia University, holds the beautiful and sublime of the cross together.
The Serious Sacrificial Body
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, refuses substitutions for the real body of Christ.
The Power of a Story to Reorient Racist Assumptions
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Get Out.
From Duet to Duel
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Phantom Thread.
An Inverted Victory
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Dunkirk.
