The Fractured Metaphysics of Protests
Alasdair MacIntyre on the meaning of late modern protesting.
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René Girard: The Last Nietzschean
Grant Kaplan on the fate of atheism and innocent victims.
Where the Consonance Between Science and Religion Lies
David Bentley Hart on the thresholds of knowledge.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart: From Empty Pockets to Stained Glass
Nancy Cavadini and Cecilia Davis Cunningham on the deeply French-Catholic history of the Notre Dame basilica's windows.
The Mood of Prayer in Newman's Grammar of Assent
Nicholas Lash on Newman's seminal work in the philosophy of religion.
Can Concepts Capture Love?
Claude Romano on Jean-Luc Marion's rigorous and rational philosophy of love.
Gregory the Great's Transvaluation of Life and Death
Carole Straw on Gregory the Great pondering the importance of the Second Death.
Saint Augustine's Secularization of Rome
R.A. Markus on the roots of the secular in Augustine's thought.
The Bible Isn't Primarily a History Book
Joseph Gordon on what reading the Bible really aims for.
Must Catholics Insist Upon Mary's Assumption?
Matthew Levering on the centrality of Mary's Assumption for all Christians.
The European Alt-Right's Crusade Against Pope Francis
José Pedro Zúquete on the clash of civilizations in Identitarian thought.
Black Domers: Desegregating the University of Notre Dame Football Team
Wayne Edmonds on his experience of playing football in a charged racial environment.
The First Condition for Dignified Work
Simone Weil on how work should work.
Imagine There's No Heaven nor Hell
Tomáš Halík reflects on fear, anxiety, and the disappearance of the Last Things.
The Slave Songs at the Core of James Cone's Theology
Andrew Prevot on the doxological roots of America's most important African-American theologian.
What Then Is Our Post-Liberal Predicament?
Pierre Manent discusses the rise of a lawleless subjectivity and its eclipse of natural law.
Max Weber and the Souls of Black Folk
Christopher McAuley on the meeting between W.E.B. Du Bois and Max Weber and their later forking paths.
Prayer and the Darkness of God
Denys Turner on the darkness of God, prayer, and the Trinity.
Christianity's Contribution to the History of Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre charts the contribution of Christianity to the history of ethics.
Newman: Apostle of Fear and Trembling to Liberal Christianity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, retrieves St. John Henry Newman's recovery of the fear of God.
Nuclear Peace as the Mock Version of the Gospel
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford University Professor of French and Political Science, demythologizes nuclear deterrence.
Toni Morrison’s Theological Grotesque
Christina Bieber Lake, Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, highlights the thick theological resources used by Morrison in Beloved.
The Essence of African Traditional Religion
Fr. Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, ND Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, distills the basic features of African Traditional Religion.
Marxism and Religion
Alasdair MacIntyre, Distinguished Research Fellow at the ND Center for Ethics & Culture, compares Marxist hope to Christian ideals.
The Liturgical Staging of Saint Óscar Romero's Theology
Edgardo Colón-Emeric, Director of the Duke Divinity Center for Reconciliation, shows how St. Romero saw current events through the lens of his preaching.
The Storming of the Winter Palace
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winning author and Russian dissident, dramatizes the storming of the Winter Palace during the Russian Revolution.
The Fear of Catholic Contamination at the Heart of American Individualism
Farrell O'Gorman, Professor of English at Belmont Abbey College, demonstrates how literary classics shape American identity by using Catholicism as a foil.
Why People Debating Abortion Can't Agree
David Walsh, CUA Professor of Politics, discusses the mystery of the person and the unintended impersonal consequences of the personalist revolution.
The Language of Autonomy, Especially in the Abortion Context, Robs Autonomy of Its Most Serious Connotations
David Walsh, CUA Professor of Politics, explains why autonomy without responsibility is incoherent, especially when it comes to abortion.The Return to Ancient Traditions After the Death of God
Tomáš Halík, former Czech dissident, priest, and winner of the 2014 Templeton Prize, calls for a return to ancient theology after Nietzsche's Death of God.