Our Lady of Lourdes and the Pathologizing of Pain
Artur Rosman on the Lourdes-based Catholic resistance to the anesthetic revolution.
May 2018
Fund-Raising Is Always a Call to Conversion
Fr. James Junípero Moore, O.P. and Christopher Hanzeli argue conversion is key for fundraisers in order for them to not treat their parishioners like ATM machines.
It's More Effective to Attract Than to Simply Chastise
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, on the interior life that made St. Philip Neri so attractive and effective.
The Alarm of War
Hans Tolpingrud, veteran of Afghanistan and Lutheran vicar, gives us a Memorial Day reminder from Jeremiah that the time of destruction is coming.
The World Was Made for the Sake of the Church
John Cavadini, Director of the ND McGrath Institute for Church Life, thinks through baptism and the Church in a premodern, multi-dimensional, way.
Voucher Programs: Problems and Promises for Catholic Schools
Brett Bertucio, UW-Madison PhD student in education policy, uses historical examples to weigh the pros and cons of state funding for Catholic schools.
Let's Not Ignore Scientific Faith
Noelle Johnson, MICL intern in the Science & Religion Initiative, enlists Michael Polanyi to discuss the faith and beliefs that undergird science itself.
The Practice of Catholicism and Modern Identity
Justin Brophy, OP on the Cartesian mind/body split.
There Is No Salvation Through the University
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, on the insignificance of law school admissions and entrance into MBA programs for salvation.
The Eschatological Marian Image
Thomas Pfau, Duke University Mary Baldwin Professor of English, on why van Eyck's paintings occupy a liminal space between iconography and realism.
Traversing Marian Economics
Carole Baker. visual artist and ThD candidate at Duke Divinity School, reflects upon the different effects of her Marian images upon Protestants and Catholics.
Relegating the Faith to the Private Sphere Generates a Distortion
R. Jared Staudt, Augustine Institute Visiting Associate Professor, elucidates the calling of the Catholic family to bring faith back into the public square.
Are Our Children Seeing Jesus?
Brad Klingele on teaching children (and ourselves) to see Our Lord and Savior who is doubly-hidden in modern societies.
Met Gala: Catholicism Broken but Shining
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary’s College (CA), goes deeper into the Met Gala than knee-jerk gushing or hating.
The "Repeal the 8th" Campaign Negates an Irish History of Non-Violence
Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham, explains why Ireland's pro-woman history presents a problem for abortion rights groups.
The Mother of God and Psychoanalysis
Adam DeVille, University of St. Francis associate professor, on the role of the Blessed Virgin and the Church as transitional and transformational objects.
The Anti-Integralist Alasdair MacIntyre
Caleb Bernacchio argues for a new, critically pro-modern, classification of Alasdair MacIntyre.
The Strange Myths of the New Evangelization
Mark Giszczak, Augustine Institute Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture, uses hard data to unmask the myth of Catholic decline in the United States.
The Virgin Mary, Birth, and Philosophy
Emmanuel Falque expands Marian themes into the domain of philosophy.
The Formation of the Imagination
Sr. Thomas More Stepnowski, VP for Academics at Aquinas College (Nashville), demonstrates why time for reflection is needed to see the real world as God does.
Anointing of the Sick Confronts Human Finitude and Dependence
Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), University of Chicago medical student, on how anointing of the sick configures the ill to Christ's passion and resurrection.
The Month of Mary and Music
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director & composer of liturgical music, celebrates the Month of Mary with a Spotify playlist with liner notes.
The Mysterious Miriam of Nazareth
Renée Roden, ND MTS and Graduate Fellow at MICL, escapes the abstractions of mythopoesis by delving into the flesh and blood mysteries of the Virgin Mary.
