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1. Christ's Story Runs Deeper: The Sanctified Imagination

   November 01, 2017 | Renée D. Roden

   In his collection of “diagnostic essays,” The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy reflects on the particular idiosyncrasies of the modern milieu, offering a prognosis for the malaise that manifests itself in pervasive cu...

2. Letting the Imagination Out to Play

   October 06, 2017 | Timothy P. O’Malley

   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...

3. Church Life is the Heart of the Catholic Imagination

   September 27, 2017 | Artur Sebastian Rosman

   Church life must once again become the heart of the Catholic imagination, but the onus of avoiding beauty’s revenge is not entirely upon the artists.

4. The Catholic Imagination is Ecclesial (Or It's Not Really Catholic)

   September 22, 2017 | Timothy P. O’Malley

   In two previous articles, Artur Rosman, the Editor-in-Chief of Church Life, has advanced a proposal for what constitutes the Catholic imagination. According to Rosman, the Catholic imagination is often employed in…

5. Reading Recommendations from the Catholic Imagination Conference

   September 15, 2017 | Madeline Infantine

   I would like to wrap up my reflections about Fordham's Catholic Imagination Conference, which are part of Church Life Journal's discussion of what the "Catholic…

6. The Dramatic Double Vision of the Catholic Imagination

   September 14, 2017 | Artur Sebastian Rosman

   For the Catholic imagination, the world is fallen but redeemable. It is not parked firmly in either heaven or hell.

7. The Single Most Important Thing I Noticed at the Fordham Catholic Imagination Conference

   September 13, 2017 | Madeline Infantine

   As I mentioned previously in the piece Things I Received at the Fordham Catholic Imagination Conference, at the end of April I was given the opportunity to attend the 2nd…

8. Things I Received at the Fordham Catholic Imagination Conference

   August 31, 2017 | Madeline Infantine

   When I received this treasure of practical writing and reading advice I also received a deeper awareness of God at work.

9. The Confused Catholic Imagination

   August 30, 2017 | Artur Sebastian Rosman

   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 ...

10. Symposia Recap: Summer at the MICL

    July 20, 2017 | Renée D. Roden

    South Bend is not widely known for its beautiful weather. But summer in South Bend blesses the hardy natives, who patiently bear the brunt of the harsh winters, with a welcome respite, and impresses visitors with stunning skies straight ...

11. Saying God Sacramentally

    July 06, 2017 | Renée D. Roden

    My God my bright abyss Into which all my longing will not go Once more I come to the edge of all I know And believing nothing believe in this: Christian Wiman begins his memoir of faith, My Bright Abyss, with the above poem. The short...

12. Nourishing the Imaginations of the Young Church

    June 07, 2017 | Megan Shepherd

    In seeking to capacitate young people for mature lives of faith, Notre Dame Vision offers an opportunity for young people and the adults who minister to them to encounter the fullness of Jesus Christ revealed in the Scriptures, the sacra...

13. Editorial Musings: Nourishing the Imagination, Renewing the Church

    June 05, 2017 | Timothy P. O’Malley

    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…

    

14. New Orleans and the Catholic Imagination

    February 28, 2017 | Timothy P. O’Malley

    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.

    

15. The Catholic Imagination in the Classroom

    January 31, 2017 | John P. Manfredi

    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...

    

16. A Culture of Encounter: Root and Fruit of Human Dignity

    April 04, 2016 | Danielle Peters

    It happened on November 6, 2013. At the end of his weekly general audience with approximately 50,000 attendees, Pope Francis caught sight of a man in his fifties. He was sitting in a wheelchair and accompanied by his aunt Lotto who recal...