Work: A Four-Letter Word?
Charles Kestermeier, SJ, instructor in the English department at Creighton University, reflects on the Christian ambivalence towards the world of work.
2018
The Sacramentality of Time
Katherine Infantine, Roncalli HS theology teacher, demonstrates how sacramental practices give us leisure from the constant busyness of the late modern world.
Josef Pieper's Critique of Western Civ
Elias Crim, founder of Solidarity Hall and host of Dorothy's Place, reflects upon the subversive legacy of Josef Pieper, philosopher of leisure and culture.
The Digital Displacement of Transcendence at Concerts
Roberto De La Noval, ND PhD candidate in Theology, observes how the emergence of the "flattered self" obliterates secular analogues of transcendence.
How Should the Pro-Life Movement Address Charges of Racism?
Charles Camosy recommends the pro-life movement look to its past to see where it needs to go in the future.
The Patron Saint of Media Studies
Brett Robinson, Director of Communications at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, argues that the Eucharist drove McLuhan's techno-theological criticism.
The Idolatry of Work
Carole Baker, visual artist and ThD candidate at Duke Divinity, on resisting the temptation to imagine we live our lives outside of work when we clearly don't.
Prayer Begins in Pointlessness and Stupidity
Edmund Waldstein on praying from within our distractions.
The Unimaginable
Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, probes the penumbra between the imagined & the unimaginable where the mystery of God is made known to us.
Walker Percy and the Racist Tragedy of Southern Stoicism
Randall Rosenberg, professor of theology at Saint Louis University, writes about the battle between Christianity, Stoicism, and racism in Walker Percy's soul.
The Post-Liberal Spirituality of John Rawls
David Walsh, Catholic University of America Professor of Politics, argues John Rawls was no liberal Rawlsian in his lifelong commitment to thinking religion.
The Birth of Scholasticism from a Series of Fortunate Mistakes
Mark Clark, Professor of Medieval Church History and Theology at CUA, draws a more accurate, modern, and pluralistic picture of the Middle Ages.
Sex and Symbol
Abigail Favale, Director of the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, reflects on how gender studies led to her convert to Catholicism.
The Redemption of Status and Hierarchy
Renée Roden, graduate of ND's MTS program, gets beyond the Met Gala and reflects on the exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."
The Charge of Blasphemy and Pope Rihanna
Natalie Carnes on what charges of blasphemy mean from within a historical perspective.
Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Jane Austen Reading Her Late Modern Reader
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster puts forward the argument that you cannot understand Austen outside of embodying a virtuous life.
A Prayer for the Rich?
Julia Smucker, theologian, translator, & activist, builds the case for a more universal application of DB Hart's debt-driven reading of the Lord's Prayer.
The Polish Romantic Messianism of Saint John Paul II
Paweł Rojek, Jagiellonian University Institute of Philosophy professor, argues that you can only understand John Paul II through his Polish Romantic Messianism.
Reason’s Shadow: Romanticism's Impact on Catholic Thought
Kristen Drahos, Postdoc Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, testifies to what Catholicism learned from Romanticism.
Musical Mystagogy: St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director, gives a musical introduction to the history of the Sacred Heart devotion.
Must Catholics Hate Hegel?
Jordan Daniel Wood & Justin Shaun Coyle rebut the claim that Hegel's philosophy ruined German Catholicism.
Christ Doesn't Save Us by Words First of All, but by His Body
Emmanuel Falque, phenomenological philosopher from the Catholic University of Paris, brings the chaos of the body back into philosophy through theology.
Emmanuel Falque: Eucharistic Crossings Between Philosophy and Theology
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, delivers a paean to Emmanuel Falque's Eucharistic contribution to the theological turn in French philosophy.
A Prayer for the Poor
David Bentley Hart, theologian and translator of the New Testament, imagines the Lord's Prayer anew by analyzing its historical context of debt slavery.
The Mass: Heart of the Church and Academia
Leonardo Franchi, lecturer in Religious Education at the University of Glasgow, discusses the importance of the liturgy to Catholic academic life.
The Assumption and Gender
James Waalkes, transitional deacon for the Diocese of Arlington (VA), examines what the dogma of the Assumption of the BVM tells us about reality.
Our Lady of Lourdes and the Pathologizing of Pain
Artur Rosman on the Lourdes-based Catholic resistance to the anesthetic revolution.
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.