The Wobbly Chronology of Disenchantment
Haley Stewart on the dated idea of progress and the novel Piranesi.
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Arts
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Beauty of Forgetting
Cyril O'Regan on productive forgetfulness within the Tradition.John Banville and the Redemption of Art
Cyril O'Regan on the novel and whether art saves.
Catechesis
What Angels Can Teach Us About Being Human
David Albert Jones on how studying angels can combat anthropocentrism.
Holding Your Nose: How to Vote Like a Catholic
Brett Salkeld on prudential judgments and intrinsic evils.Identity Dysphoria and the Sacraments of Initiation
Francesca Murphy on what's in a name.
Catholic Education
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.The Overvaluation of Achievement in Catholic Schools
Christine Baglow on the place of Autism Spectrum Disorder children in the Church's pedagogy.
Catholic Imagination
T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita
Brendan Case on Krishna, the Virgin Mary, and detachment in T.S. Eliot's long poems.
Three Tantalizing Enigmas in Dante’s Heaven of the Sun
Robert Imbelli on Solomon, the circle of theologians, and the celebration of the risen body in Dante.The Mark of a Sacramentalist
Scott Beauchamp on Homer, time, and the Welsh poet David Jones.
Liturgy
Who Is the Priest We Want?
John Cavadini on the priestly vocation of being set apart for one's parish.
The Bible Isn't Primarily a History Book
Joseph Gordon on what reading the Bible really aims for.Maximus the Confessor's Summation of Early Patristic Thought
Jean-Paul Juge on the Feast of St. Maximus Confessor.
Monsters
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.Cormac McCarthy's Polysemous Monster
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, faces the Judge from Blood Meridian.
News
Fratelli Tutti's Bridging of the Death Penalty Gap
Gregory Caridi on why Pope Francis's latest encyclical does not change Church teaching.
Murder in the Cathedral: The Face of Christ in the Victims of Nagasaki
David Albert Jones on George Weigels defense of dropping the bomb.Originalism Isn't the Judicial Version of Biblical Fundamentalism
Elizabeth-Jane and Steven McGuire on Amy Coney Barrett's judicial theory.
Notre Dame Press
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.
Pro-Life
Murder in the Cathedral: The Face of Christ in the Victims of Nagasaki
David Albert Jones on George Weigels defense of dropping the bomb.
Communal Guilt and the Black Catholic Experience in America: An Interview with Fr. Josh Johnson
Shaun Blanchard interviews Fr. Johnson about Black Catholic history.The Overvaluation of Achievement in Catholic Schools
Christine Baglow on the place of Autism Spectrum Disorder children in the Church's pedagogy.
Saturdays with the Saints
A Quest for the Historical Saint Francis
Augustine Thompson, OP on a historical scholar encountering St. Francis of Assisi.
The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
John Cavadini on Dorothy Day's eucharistic way of life.Newman and the Dis-Asters of Modernity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, explains John Henry Newman's contribution to the present age.
Science and Religion
Evolution, Cooperation, and God
Sarah Coakley on the compatibility of recent evolutionary discoveries with classical theism.
Neuroscience Disappears When the Complex Whole Is Decomposed
Patrick McNamara on the need to avoid "nothing but" solutions in science.Even Doctors of the Church Make Theological Mistakes Now and Again
Cory Hayes on St. Robert Bellarmine's arguments in the Galileo Affair.
Tech and Media
Time and Meaning
Frank Pasquale on the speed of a life worth living.
A Requiem for Attention?
Mike St. Thomas on losing the war against digital distraction with psychedelics.How Much Dreck Would a Yellow Check Check?
Gladden Pappin and Gregory Caridi answer the critics of their proposal for a yellow check system.
Theology
The Future of Catholicism
Jean-Luc Marion on the unknowability of God and man.
The Mood of Prayer in Newman's Grammar of Assent
Nicholas Lash on Newman's seminal work in the philosophy of religion.The Aesthetic Inversion in the Religious Conversion of St. Francis of Assisi
Matthew Chominski on whether beauty or ugliness is the deepest truth of reality.
