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When Nobodies Write Spiritual Memoirs
Kenneth Garcia chews over who has earned the right to write a spiritual memoir.
Nature Mediating Grace
Mike Aquilina goes on pilgrimage with Ken Garcia.
Social Reform Isn't the Goal
Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
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.
Why Does Beauty Arouse Joy Even Among Suffering?
Junius Johnson, Honors College at Baylor University Assistant Professor, explores how our subjective experience of beauty is grounded in God's beauty.The Postmodern Search for a Noble Simplicity in Church Architecture
Marcin Szymański, OP, Director of Education at St. Catherine of Siena Newman Ctr., reflects on a trip to Eastern Europe and on church architecture styles.
The Catholic Imaginings of Jimmy Buffett
Stephen Metzger on the Catholicism of Jimmy Buffett.
The Horror Inherent in Leisure
Bo Bonner on the overlooked horror-inducing quality of leisure and its orientation toward transcendence.
The Unimaginable
Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, probes the penumbra between the imagined & the unimaginable where the mystery of God is made known to us.
Walker Percy and the Racist Tragedy of Southern Stoicism
Randall Rosenberg, professor of theology at Saint Louis University, writes about the battle between Christianity, Stoicism, and racism in Walker Percy's soul.
Sex and Symbol
Abigail Favale, Director of the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, reflects on how gender studies led to her convert to Catholicism.
The Redemption of Status and Hierarchy
Renée Roden, graduate of ND's MTS program, gets beyond the Met Gala and reflects on the exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."The Charge of Blasphemy and Pope Rihanna
Natalie Carnes on what charges of blasphemy mean from within a historical perspective.
Must Catholics Hate Hegel?
Jordan Daniel Wood & Justin Shaun Coyle rebut the claim that Hegel's philosophy ruined German Catholicism.
Christ Doesn't Save Us by Words First of All, but by His Body
Emmanuel Falque, phenomenological philosopher from the Catholic University of Paris, brings the chaos of the body back into philosophy through theology.
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.
Homo AvocadoPanem: An Anthropology of the Millennial Imagination
Renée D. Roden, ND MTS student and graduate fellow of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, serves up sacrifice without avocado to Millennials.
Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Apocalypse
Emily Edmondson, Texan and University of Notre Dame M.T.S., highlights the strong ties between Mexico, La Guadalupana, and the Woman of the Apocalypse.
The Extraordinary Is Wed to the Mundane in the Catholic Imagination
Anne M. Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary’s College of California, argues that the Catholic imagination is not what it creates.What Is the Catholic Worker Movement?
Casey Mullaney on Dorothy Day and others.
Notre Dame Football Premium Upgrades and Trash Removal
Luisa Mader, Church Life Intern - ND Institute for Church Life, tells two stories about Notre Dame Football in this installment of The Magnificat Project.
What Is Communion and Liberation?
Sofia Carozza on how the CL movement makes her Catholic.