The Afterlife of Bergman's The Seventh Seal
David Griffith on watching the cinema classic after the death of Max von Sydow and during a pandemic.
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Arts
Camus and the Great Conundrum
Steven Garber on The Plague—a surprise recent bestseller.A Society Riddled with Suspicion and Paranoia
Suzanne Wolfe writing in a genre in which crime and punishment are alive and well.
Catechesis
Co-Responsibility: An Antidote to Clericalizing the Laity?
John Cavadini on how to avoid the development of a lay clericalism.
The Mass Is Still With Us Even Under Quarantine
Timothy O'Malley argues that Catholics can no more escape participation in the Eucharist than they can escape their human bodies.Love Provides a Last Chance
Hans Urs von Balthasar comments on the call to repentance in the Parable of the Fig Tree.
Catholic Education
Dear Students: There Is No Afterwards
Leonard DeLorenzo's letter to students on life after the pandemic.
Education Should Aim at God, Not the Job Market
Daniel Drain takes education back to its roots.The Love of Learning and the Lay Desire for God
Margarita Mooney takes the monastic approach to learning without heading for the hills.
Catholic Imagination
A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last?
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy's fiction and the experience of catasrophe.
Reasons for Reading the Decameron Even After Coronavirus Is Over
Stephen Metzger on what Boccacio's classic has to say theologically.A Catholic Reading of the Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
M. Shawn Copeland explores the Nobel Prize winner's affinity for material Catholic devotional life.
Liturgy
What If We're Waiting for Jonah?
Leonard DeLorenzo on an empire whose ways had run afoul of the Lord.
The Church's Response Is Saying ‘No’ to Death's Dominion
Timothy O'Malley on how the Church's COVID-19 response is building a culture of life.The Origins of Quarantine in Lent
John Panteleimon Manoussakis on the Quarantine, Venice, and a sui generis Lent.
Monsters
The City Is Sick
John Panteleimon Manoussakis on contagion in the literary works of Sophocles and Camus.
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
Two Contradictory Principles of Social Life
Charles Taylor on Fr. Józef Tischner and the need for solidarity.
Roberto Esposito: Philosopher of Community and Immunity?
Robert Wyllie on whether Roberto Esposito picks up the baton Giorgio Agamben dropped.The Feminine Mystique Revisited
Angela Franks revisits and updates the critique of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
Notre Dame Press
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.
Pro-Life
The Theobiology of a Mother's Voice
Kristin Collier explores theological analogies to the mother-child relationship.
Amidst Plagues: The Church's Call to Foster Care and More
Holly Taylor Coolman makes the case for foster care as one model for the Christian life.The Gift of the Body Versus the Violent Impulse
Laura Bramon on the gift of the body and the struggle to affirm it against genocide and human-trafficking.
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
St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time
Stephen Barr considers the intersection between modern physics and St. Augustine.
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.
Tech and Media
How Much Dreck Would a Yellow Check Check?
Gladden Pappin and Gregory Caridi answer the critics of their proposal for a yellow check system.
Friendship in a Time of Cyberattack
Michael Baxter reports from the frontline of the Regis Jesuit University cyberattack.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.
Theology
You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
Eugene McCarraher on the pecuniary theology of neoliberalism.
Friendship With God After a Time of Tragedy
Jane Peters on friendship in the life and philosophy of Raïssa MaritainFrom Jansenism to Humanae Vitae: The Long History of Catholic Dissent
Shaun Blanchard analyzes modern theological crises caused by dissent.
