Skin in the Game
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, analyzes the demanding formational theology of the film Paul, Apostle of Christ.
2018
Catholic Education and the Market's Technocratic Paradigm
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, doubts whether, unlike Europe, America is safe from the technocratic paradigm and market forces.
Why Baptism and Confession?
Kathryn Thompson (Notre Dame 2017), medical student at the University of Chicago, on what God does with us in the sacraments of baptism and confession.
Amor Ergo Sum: Sacramental Personhood
Christina Condyles, editor with Liturgy Training Publications, on the need for our daily life to reflect our participation in the Body of Christ.
The Liturgical Critique of Technological Culture
Alec Arnold, PhD candidate at Saint Louis University in Theology & Health Care Ethics, takes a look at technology through a critical liturgical lens.
The Annunciation and Vocational Fear
Samuel Bellafiore, seminarian for the Diocese of Albany, NY, looks to the Virgin Mary to show us how to approach priestly celibacy in sex-saturated times.
Why the Sacraments?
Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, on Christ drawing near through the sacraments.
Why Must We Go to Church on Sunday?
Christina Condyles, editor with Liturgy Training Publications, on why does it matter if we go to church on Sunday, rather than praying on our own?
Resetting the Synod
Leonard DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life lecturer, counsels avoiding antagonisms in debates about Synod 2018 by modelling mercy.
Being Liturgical
Timothy P. O'Malley, Director of the University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, on the kind of formation that is essential to the post-modern age.
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.
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.
