The Nature of Gothic and Modern Oblivion
John Ruskin on the humanizing elements of the Gothic period and their recent disappearance.
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Arts
All This Useless Beauty
Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses the countercultural power of beauty.A Story of Divorce as Self-Realization
Anna Keating reviews Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.
Catechesis
Saint Bernard: Unlikely Patron of Christian Unity
Charles Ridley draws on Saint Bernard as an unlikely resource for ecumenism.
How to Read Mark's Gospel
Ron Hansen takes you on a tour of how to read Mark's Gospel.Rehabilitating Saint Simeon the Stylite
Elizabeth Klein debunks characterizations of Simeon Stylites as a fanatic.
Catholic Education
The Love of Learning and the Lay Desire for God
Margarita Mooney takes the monastic approach to learning without heading for the hills.
What's Next After Catholic Colleges Decline?
Timothy O'Malley argues for experimentation, rather than perpetuating the status quo, in Catholic education.Anchoring Authority
Leonardo Franichi navigates seemingly competing claims.
Catholic Imagination
A Protestant Integralist?
Peter Leithart recalls the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin.
The Houston Astros, Digital Espionage, and the Harsh Demands of Justice
Kevin Clarke breaks down the many sins of the 2017 Houston Astros.When Nobodies Write Spiritual Memoirs
Kenneth Garcia chews over who has earned the right to write a spiritual memoir.
Liturgy
Advent's Binding of Isaac
Kristen Drahos explains Advent's sacrifice of money and riches.
You Gotta Confront Who You Are!
Travis Lacy, ND PhD Candidate in Systematic Theology, confronts the unsettling reality of monastic prayer.A Priest for James Carroll
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, describes what the abuse scandal looks like from the inside.
Monsters
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.Nietzsche Between Christianity and Greek Myth
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, envisions how Nietzsche would view two Greek myths differently than Simone Weil.
News
A Divided Society Is Already Conquered
Tim Kelleher on Putin, identity politics, and stardust.
Stop Looking for a Francis Effect in the Numbers
Timothy O'Malley celebrates the pope's birthday by taking another look at the "Francis effect" controversy.London Real Estate and a Cardinal: How a Dull Deal Became a Conspiracy Theory
Gladden Pappin & Edoardo Bueri reset the conversation around Peter's Pence and the Vatican's finances.
Notre Dame Press
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.
Pro-Life
Why Get Over It Isn't Enough for Victims of Clerical Sexual Abuse
Philippa Martyr on what it takes to bring true healing to victims of the sexual abuse crisis.
To Be Befriended: A Meditation on Friendship and the Disabled
Stanley Hauerwas disarms fears of the abled about those who are disabled.The Chief Target of the New Totalitarianism
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature at John Brown University, introduces the struggle between the family and the soft totalitarianism.
Saturdays with the Saints
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.God, Country, and Joan of Arc
Ann Astell, ND Professor of Theology, explains Joan of Arc's significance in terms of God, Country, and Notre Dame.
Science and Religion
An Alternate History of Modern Science
Christopher Graney imagines how the Copernican Revolution might've avoided the science and religion wars.
Does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Shed New Light on Theological Anthropology?
Christopher Baglow examines the theological potential of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.The Redemption of Scientific Reason
Carlo Lancellotti argues faith can help science rediscover its original impetus.
Tech and Media
Marxism Died in the East Because It Realized Itself in the West
Augusto Del Noce ponders the fate of Communism after 1989 in his last publication.
What Lies Beyond Cutting-Edge Power Games?
Jeffrey Bishop on liturgy's resistance to technological will-to-power.Our New World Without Kith or Kin
Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," breaks down the Second Demographic Transition's plague of lonely deaths.
Theology
The Phenomenology of Christ in Flesh and Bones
Emmanuel Falque on the possibility of thinking a truly fleshly Incarnation and Resurrection.
Richard Dawkins Discovers His Ideal Idiom and Audience
David Bentley Hart reviews Richard Dawkins's Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide.The Consumer's Regress
Scott Beauchamp on the spiritual twists and turns of crass consumerism.
