Día de los Muertos and the Prayer Over the Offerings
Leonard DeLorenzo on community.
Leonard J. DeLorenzo
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D. serves in the McGrath Institute for Church Life and teaches theology at Notre Dame. His book on death, desire, and the communion of saints is Work of Love: A Theological Reconstruction of the Communion of Saints.
Articles
Evangelization: If We Just Keep Them, We'll Lose Them
Leonard DeLorenzo on breaking the habit of aiming for too little in evangelization.
Breaking the Habit of Outsourcing the Ongoing Catechesis of Our Children
Leonard de Lorenzo on new trends in religious education.
Breaking the Habit of Offloading Our Responsibility for Parish Life to Others
Leonard DeLorenzo on abiding together in the parish.
Only Reconciliation Can Cancel Transgressions
Leonard DeLorenzo on forgiving the unimaginable and unimaginable forgiveness.
What If We're Waiting for Jonah?
Leonard DeLorenzo on an empire whose ways had run afoul of the Lord.
Dear Students: There Is No Afterwards
Leonard DeLorenzo's letter to students on life after the pandemic.
Kobe Bryant and the Bread of Life
Leonard DeLorenzo ponders the life of Kobe Bryant and appearances.
The November Night Before Advent
Leonard DeLorenzo contemplates this year's uninterrupted transition from November into Advent.
Long After the Prodigal Son's Return
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, engages Abigail Favale's memoir to reimagine the period long after the Prodigal's return.
What Social Media Does to Time
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, breaks down how social media breaks down time.
Unfulfilled Promise: The Synod on Young People
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, compares the expectations and achievements of the Synod on Young People.
Love Is Always Conditional
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, on the conditions that make the human condition what it is.
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.
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.
Resetting the Synod
Leonard DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life lecturer, counsels avoiding antagonisms in debates about Synod 2018 by modelling mercy.
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.
Three Theological Reflections on Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, director of Notre Dame Vision, looks at Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed through the lens of the Genesis creation story.
Belief in the Communion of Saints Isn't Optional
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, director of Notre Dame Vision, lays out why there is no doubt the communio sanctorum is central to a fully orthodox Catholic faith.
The Light By Which We See: The Problem of Promise and Identity
Editors' Note: This post is an excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter of DeLorenzo’s new book Witness: Learning to Tell the Story of Grace That Illumine Our Lives, published by and reprinted with the permission of Ave Mari...Pilgrimage and the Urgent Question of Faith
What happens when a pilgrimage becomes an urgent question? Leonard DeLorenzo thinks about this after his recent pilgrimage to Malta with Notre Dame.
Mother Teresa and the Pain of Joy
On September 4, 2016, the woman who claimed that if she ever became a saint she would “surely be one of ‘darkness’”[1] will enter the canon of the Church in broad daylight, for all the world to see. Till the end o...
Being Hungry Is What Happens To Us
Lent is the journey into deeper conformity with Christ who emptied himself unto death and who, risen, is the gift of everlasting life. In Luke 4 Jesus’ self-emptying is presented in his period of temptation in the desert. When enco...