The Wayward Daughters
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster wrestles with the weight of sin borne by female characters in the fiction of Sigrid Undset and Evelyn Waugh.
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Death and Bunnies All the Way Down?
Renée Roden, Notre Dame MTS Graduate and freelance writer, reviews Oscars 2019 Best Picture nominee The Favourite.
A Commonplace Christmas
Anne Horcher, University of Notre Dame English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, meditates upon G.K. Chesterton's poem "The Nativity."
Fourth Sunday of Advent: Someone Is Hidden in This Dark
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director, revisits the Jessica Powers poem "Advent" on the last Sunday of Advent.
Fear the Innocence of Children
Georges Bernanos imagines what an agnostic would preach to a congregation of ordinary believers.
Faith Is Not a Big Electric Blanket
Jordan Haddad, CUA Ph.D. student in Systematic Theology, discusses Flannery O'Connor's channeling of John the Baptist's freakish Advent spirit.
Third Sunday in Advent: A Call to Surrender
Anne Horcher, University of Notre Dame English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, analyzes John Keble's “Third Sunday in Advent.”
The Unremarkable Sunday in Advent
Anne Horcher, University of Notre Dame English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, analyzes John Keble's “Second Sunday in Advent.”
First Sunday in Advent: The Bridegroom Comes
Timothy O'Malley, Director ND Center for Liturgy, kicks off our Advent commentary on devotional poetry series with Christina Rossetti's "Advent Sunday."
Charles Péguy's Difficult Hope
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary’s College (CA), digs into the roots of Charles Péguy's art and politics.
The Contemporary Question of Images and Early Christian Art
Lauren Beversluis, Lumen Christi Institute, regards contemporary questions of art in light of Ratzinger's writings on Early Christian iconography.
Vaporwave and Simone Weil's Void
Scott Beauchamp, writer and author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," introduces the vaporwave aesthetic as a compliment to Simone Weil's mysticism.
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.
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.
Where Does the Healing Power of Music Originate?
Carolyn Pirtle, Program Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, listens to how music, like Lent, depends upon upon attention and sacrifice to heal wounds.
The Church Life Journal Carols of Christmas Playlist
Carolyn Pirtle leaves no doubt about there being no better time for music than Christmastime.
The Church Life Journal Sounds of Advent Playlist
Carolyn Pirtle on listening to Advent without skipping to Christmas.
The Healing Power of Beauty
This is an essay about vision and blindness, about seeing and the failure to see, about wholes and fragments, sickness and healing, light and darkness, about nativity and the rebirth to eternal youth, about a mode of beauty that does not...