Flannery O'Connor: The American Master
David Griffith's reflections on the recent PBS Flannery documentary.
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Arts
An Experiment in Criticism of the Literary Canon
Jessica Hooten Wilson on expanding the canon rather than pruning it.St. Augustine's Phenomenology of Modern Fashion's Logic
Robert Covolo on what clothes make of the man.
Catechesis
St. Catherine of Siena: To Love the Church Is to Long for Her Renewal
Guy Bedouelle, OP on responding to the misfortunes caused by the Church.
Chiara Lubich's Gift
Peter Casarella on the international fruits of a mystical vision.The Voice of Jesus in Lent's Being-Toward-Death
Jorge Roque, SJ on being-towards-death and the voice of Jesus.
Catholic Education
When Death and Dying Breach the Classroom Walls
Leachman and Kinlaw on teaching students about the inevitable.
Fides et Ratio After Athens and Jerusalem
Frederick Lawrence on the late modern need for Socratic breaks.The Poetic Body of the Benedictine Charism
Margarita Mooney on Newman's writings on St. Benedict.
Catholic Imagination
Searching for a Secular Age
James Matthew Wilson on Myles Connolly's postsecular modernism.
Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs
Paul Contino on Dostoevsky's incarnational realism.What Happens to the Heart in Advent
Jonathan Geltner on Jon Fosse's mystical realism.
Liturgy
The Ingredients for Making a Good Confession
Paul Griffiths and regret and avowals.
The Eucharistic Short-Circuiting of Cancel Culture
Timothy O'Malley on turning things down several notches.The Case of the Great Pandemic Liturgical Flip-Flop
Thomas Humphries on the awkward vigor of the Christian life.
Monsters
The Blood of Dionysus or the Vineyard of the Lord?
Angela Franks on the will to power versus the logic of the cross.
97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
Cyril O'Regan on Hegel's 250th birthday and spiders.The Founding Violence That Never Ends
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, contemplates American history through Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
News
Saints and Sinners in a History-Haunted Age
Matt Hoberg on history and justice.
The Question of Gender is First and Foremost a Metaphysical Question
Rachel Coleman on approaches to the philosophy of gender.Sex and Secularization
Philip Jenkins on the relationship between fertility and faith.
Notre Dame Press
The Work of the Cross
Thomas Weinandy on the meaning of the cross.
The Rise and Fall of Father Zahm
John Slattery on the history of faith and evolutionary science at the University of Notre Dame.The Ingredients for Making a Good Confession
Paul Griffiths and regret and avowals.
Pro-Life
The Uncomfortable Truths Face Masks Reveal
Noia and Rovati on the pandemic and God's silence.
Abortion Tests the Limits of Liberalism
Jonathan Culbreath on why the pro-life cause has become the playing of electoral politics.The Strange Fruit of Immigration
Samuel Rocha on the need for a sad pedagogy of truth.
Saturdays with the Saints
A Doctor of the Church for Our Times
Rebekah Lamb on Thérèse of Lisieux and her way of the Cross.
The Fatherly Heart of Saint Joseph
John Cavadini on his favorite saint and a secret of God.A Quest for the Historical Saint Francis
Augustine Thompson, OP on a historical scholar encountering St. Francis of Assisi.
Science and Religion
Unlearning Is the New Learning: A Neuroscientific and Theological Case for How and Why to See the World Differently
Nancy Michael (ND Neuroscience) and Ben Wilson (Center for Social Concerns), discuss the importance of the unlearning process for mature flourishing.
The Rise and Fall of Father Zahm
John Slattery on the history of faith and evolutionary science at the University of Notre Dame.The Brain Resides in the Soul (Not the Other Way Around)
Brendan Case on the reversals of George Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism.
Tech and Media
Technology Is Not the Issue
Georges Alsankary on the ethical quandaries of the experience machine.
A Syllabus of Internet Theology Errors
Arredondo and Haddad on the collision between the Magisterium and social media.Making Sense of a World in Transition
The CSDL on what comes after a world of make-believe.
Theology
The Beginning of the End of the World
Brett Salkeld on the resurrection of the body.
The Work of the Cross
Thomas Weinandy on the meaning of the cross.A Massive Sea Change in Recent Theology
Philip Gonzales on the rebirth of metaphysics in current theology and philosophy.