Social Reform Isn't the Goal
Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
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Tracing Ghosts in the Theological Tradition
Andrew Kuiper searches two millennia of theology for ghosts (and finds them).
The Scattered Alumni Who Return to Campus Posthumously
Andrea Antenan Peecher puzzles about the two cemeteries on University of Notre Dame's campus.
Understanding the Other Through Religious Imaginations
Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek's religion editor for 38 years, advocates the Catholic imagination as a starting point for understanding non-Catholics.
Has Literature Regained Its Faith?
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Curran Center for American Catholic Studies Associate Director, recognizes the big progress made in putting Catholic literature back on the literary map.
Protestant Fiction Needs the Catholic Imagination
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, shares some ideas on how to improve Protestant fiction.
What Is the Catholic Imagination?
Michael Murphy, Director of the Hank Center at Loyola University Chicago, invites you to reexamine a hotly debated notion.
Golden Beauty Lies Sometimes
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s College, critiques the Baroque Catholic imagination through the history of race.
Whence Comes the Arresting Sorrow of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa?
John Sikorski, PhD candidate in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, ponders the Black Madonna's mysterious history, meaning, and significance.
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.
Letting the Imagination Out to Play
Last weekend, I was in Philadelphia for the Society for Catholic Liturgy. This “multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars” seeks to promote the “scholarly study and practical renewal of the Church’s litur...
The Catholic Imagination is Ecclesial (Or It's Not Really Catholic)
In two previous articles, Artur Rosman, the managing editor of Church Life, has advanced a proposal for what constitutes the Catholic imagination. According to Rosman, the Catholic imagination is often employed in departments of Catholic...
The Dramatic Double Vision of the Catholic Imagination
For the Catholic imagination, the world is fallen but redeemable. It is not parked firmly in either heaven or hell.
The Confused Catholic Imagination
It is commonplace to assume that the imagination is opposed to reality. This is not the prevailing understanding of the imagination in contemporary theory and theology. Let’s start with the following classic rock lyrics to clarify ...
The All of It: Nourishing the Catholic Imagination through Echo’s Integrative Formation
“It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.” –E.M. Forster If we are to think of the Church as a field hospital, as Pope Francis has suggested, with “the mission to heal the wounds of ...
Editorial Musings: Nourishing the Imagination, Renewing the Church
As I write this week's editorial musings, the McGrath Institute for Church Life is engaged in final preparations for our annual summer programming. We will welcome to the University of Notre Dame liturgical and sacramental catechist...
New Orleans and the Catholic Imagination
Today is Mardi Gras. Timothy P. O'Malley treats the celebration of Mardi Gras as a way of understanding how to keep Holy Lent. Not with sadness but with hope.
The Catholic Imagination in the Classroom
My students have grown accustomed to their senses being bombarded with stimulation. They find it difficult, as do I, to cut off from the noise of the fast-paced world swirling around them. Too often, the media that falls in their lap, or...
