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.
2018
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.
The Importance of Geographic Stability for the Church
Gwendolen Adams, PhD (Catholic Studies, Maryvale Institute) draws on Alsadair MacIntyre and sociological data to argue for stability's evangelizing value.
Medieval Rites and Contemporary Dying
Elaine Stratton Hild, musicologist and NDIAS Fellow, looks at how medieval rites for the dying, especially music, can be applied to contemporary contexts.
Aiming at the Death of Disabled Children
Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham, discusses the bioethics of healthcare providers aiming at the death of young patients.
Can Catholicism's Truth Be Known Beyond Its Walls?
John Sikorski looks for radically-Catholic liturgical options in the writings of Virgil Michel, OSB.
Whom Will Technology Serve?
Dylan Belton, ND PhD candidate in systematic theology, argues the current era is a new “nomadic age" and asks what it ethically demands of us.
I Will Not Leave You Orphans
James Keating, Creighton Institute for Priestly Formation director of spiritual formation, on God searching for, and remaining with, us amidst the din of pop culture.
Where Does the Ministry End and the Apostolate Begin?
Peter Andrastek, Senior Consultant for The Evangelical Catholic, clarifies how and why the ministry and the apostolate should work together instead of competing.
Abp. Fulton Sheen’s Eucharistic Spirituality
Mark Zia goes to the Eucharistic source of Fulton Sheen's ministry.
The Sacraments of Love and Death
Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, examines married life and the end of life in her series on the sacraments.
Dante and the Liturgical Formation of Desire
Randall Rosenberg, professor of theology at Saint Louis University, unveils the deep liturgical roots of Dante's poetic re-integration of desire and love.
Why the Eucharist?
Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, explains why and how the Eucharist loves us into being.
