John Banville and the Redemption of Art
Cyril O'Regan on the novel and whether art saves.
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Arts
Grace Must Come for the Debased and Unworthy
Morgan Meis on the Rubens family, betrayal, and forgiveness.Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth Sermon
Adam Horn on a forgotten masterpiece and a particularly American brand of Manicheanism.
Catechesis
Only Reconciliation Can Cancel Transgressions
Leonard DeLorenzo on forgiving the unimaginable and unimaginable forgiveness.
Don’t Panic If You Feel Fear
Sr. Mary David OSB on the spirituality of endurance.When Nothing Helps
Jonathan Heaps on Mr. Rogers and why there will always be helpers.
Catholic Education
Classical Secularity Versus Liberal Secularism
James Hankins on a model of secularity that isn't secularist.
Before Academic and Religious Freedom
Justin Stover on drastically different ways of thinking about religion and education.Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Homeschooling Isn't All Risk
Ken Garcia on the possibility for solidarity and subsidiarity in homeschooling.
Catholic Imagination
The Mark of a Sacramentalist
Scott Beauchamp on Homer, time, and the Welsh poet David Jones.
The Cross-Examination of Christianity
Rida Vaquas on Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, the working poor, and the Cross.Ernest Hemingway's Dark Night of the Soul
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on Hemingway's and O'Connor's paths through Catholicism.
Liturgy
The Materialistic Civilization That Now Prevails in the West Has Consequences
Cardinal Robert Sarah on the consequences of the dictatorship of noise.
Fear as a Lack of Faith?
Alex Fogleman on celebrating Easter and life in the midst of death.Fátima and Perseverance in Trials
Margarita Mooney on what hope means in the midst of unbearable trauma.
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
COVID-19 and the Race That Nobody Sees
Kimbell Kornu on the theology of Asian Americans in a Black and White America.
Is the Decision to Turn the Hagia Sophia Into a Mosque an Obstacle to Interreligious Relations?
Gabriel Reynolds on how Christians might come to see Turkey's decision.The Gift of Blackness to the Church: An Interview with EWTN’s Gloria Purvis
Samuel Rocha interviews Gloria Purvis about white supremacy in the Catholic Church.
Notre Dame Press
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.
Pro-Life
Aristotle's Irredeemable Ableism
Christopher Frey on Aristotle's immoral arguments for natural slavery.
Groundbreaking National Study Shows That Americans Struggle to Think Coherently About Abortion
Jessica Keating on the real need for Pro-Life education programs.If Men Could Get Pregnant Wouldn't They Demand Something Better Than Abortion?
Jessica Keating on the pro-life movement after June Medical Services v. Russo.
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
Problems of Conceiving Human Origins
Kenneth Kemp on Adam and Eve and evolution.
Evolution and the Human Soul
Christopher Baglow on human origins and the porous boundaries between science and religion.Catholic Creationism as a Conspiracy Theory
Brett Salkeld on teaching evolution and the theology of the Church.
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
Was Vatican II a Bad Seed?
John Cavadini on Archbishop Viganò's recent criticisms of the Second Vatican Council.
Gratitude as a Virtue
Jessica Hooten Wilson on being thankful even for fleas.A Very Short Introduction to Aquinas
Herbert McCabe on what you should know about the Angelic Doctor's thinking.
