Vatican I: Loss and Gain in the Governance of the Catholic Church
John W. O’Malley, Georgetown University Professor of Theology, considers both the gains and losses in the governance of the Church after Vatican I.
Articles » Theology
What Is Integralism Today?
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., a monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz, provides the essential background to the renewed integralism debate among Catholics.
Why Is Faith Dead Without Works?
Addison Hodges Hart, author, theologian, and priest, uses the Book of James to judge the dichotomy between faith and works.
An African Reflection on the Common Good, Migration, and the Youth Synod
Nnadozie Onyekuru, Master of Global Affairs student at Notre Dame, reflects upon Synod 2018's discussion of migration from within an African context.
The Orthodox Schism Under Western Eyes
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English Department PhD Candidate, explains why the largest schism since the Reformation is escaping serious notice in the West.
Joseph Ratzinger Is Not a Platonist
Timothy P. O’Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, read's Benedict XVI conception of God as interrupting history rather than escaping into eternity.
A Defense of Ultramontanism Contra Gallicanism
Taylor Patrick O'Neill, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Mercy University, critiques abuses of the term "ultramontanism."
Guidelines for Any Appropriate Response to the Catholic Abuse Crisis
John Cavadini, Director of the ND McGrath Institute for Church Life, proposes remedies to the abuse scandal from within the heart of Catholic theology.
The Method for Avoiding Cheap Success in Apologetics
Fr. Harrison Ayre, priest of the Diocese of Victoria, follows Maurice Blondel as a guide to avoiding cheap success in Christian apologetics.
A Painful Look Back at Saint Augustine and the Donatist Schism
Ty Monroe, Visiting Professor at Assumption College, looks back at the Donatist Controversy to see schisms as rotting infections of a prior wound.
Embrace Negativity or Risk Never Being Happy
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English Department PhD candidate, takes Byung-Chul Han as guide through the paradoxes of (not) attaining true happiness.
Observations on Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity on Its 50th Anniversary
Cyril O'Regan, ND Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology, considers the appeal of the Introduction and invites you to McGrath Institute's conference on it.
The Specter of a Sweeping Rewrite of Catholic Sexual Teachings
Abigail Favale, William Penn Honors Program Director at George Fox U., on why the revision of the teaching on the death penalty won't affect sexuality.
Job and the Problem of Evil Versus the Tribunal of History
Cyril O'Regan, Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, considers Job's example as a movement towards faith critically held.
Cultivating Benedictine Wonder
Jane Peters, writer and PhD candidate in historical theology at Marquette University, gives you a generous first-person slice of the Benedictine life.
The Spiritual Was More Substantial Than the Material for the Ancients
D.B. Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, explores the NT's strange intellectual world by defining what spirit, soul, and flesh meant to its writers.
None of Us Shall Enter the Kingdom?
Luís Pinto de Sá, SLU doctoral candidate in philosophy, looks at one of the classics of world cinema, Ordet, a film about the theological virtue of faith.
Ora et Labora: Christians Don't Need Leisure
Paul J. Griffiths, former Duke Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, argues that there is nothing for the Christian between work and prayer in a Fallen World.
Desanitizing Christianity After St. Benedict and After Virtue
Gregory Floyd, Core Program at Seton Hall instructor, gets to the bottom of what Alasdair MacIntyre wanted to say about St. Benedict in After Virtue.
The Anti-Integralist Alasdair MacIntyre
Caleb Bernacchio argues for a new, critically pro-modern, classification of Alasdair MacIntyre.
The Gift of Modernity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology, distinguishes the cheerers, weepers, and shadow-seers of modernity.
The Sex Life of Joseph and Mary
John Cavadini explores the matter by looking at sources both East and West.
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