Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita?
Erik Eklund gives Lolita, and the metaphysics of writing, back to Nabokov.
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Arts
The Universe as It Should Be
Jason Baxter travels with the Desert Fathers, Dante, and Merton into natural contemplation.Byung-Chul Han's Sinking Cargo Cult of Meaning
Scott Beauchamp plumbs Byung-Chul Han's new direction.
Catechesis
Transubstantiation Isn't a Disconnected Doctrine
Brett Salkeld illustrates how to overcome misunderstandings about transubstantiation.
In the Storm: An Ordination Homily
Peter Leithart gives advice about walking on water.The Difference Between Consuming Flesh in the Market and During the Liturgy
Matthew Tan on what happens when capitalism cuts the flesh off from transcendence.
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
Social Reform Isn't the Goal
Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
Tracing Ghosts in the Theological Tradition
Andrew Kuiper searches two millennia of theology for ghosts (and finds them).The Scattered Alumni Who Return to Campus Posthumously
Andrea Antenan Peecher puzzles about the two cemeteries on University of Notre Dame's campus.
Liturgy
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.The Spiritual Desert Isn't Optional
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, looks for a preaching that can resound in our desertified spiritual landscape.
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.
Notre Dame Press
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.Nuclear Peace as the Mock Version of the Gospel
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford University Professor of French and Political Science, demythologizes nuclear deterrence.
Pro-Life
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.Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies
Kristin Collier, University of Michigan Medical School Assistant Professor, delves into the philosophical and theological implication of fetomaternal microchimerism.
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
A Patron Saint of Evolution?
Berta Moritz, science writer, examines Newman's relationship to Darwin's discoveries.
Scientific Mythology Threatens Both Religion and Science
Christopher Clemens, UNC Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, looks at the "conflict" between science and religion from a new angle.The Cry of the Earth in Pan-Amazonia
Lucas Briola, Assistant Theology Professor at Saint Vincent College, unearths striking CST developments in a pre-synod document on the Pan-Amazonian region.
Technology
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.
War Is Boring
Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming Did You Kill Anyone?, on the boredom of war and modern life.What Will a Future with Androids Among Us Look Like?
Jordan Wales, Hillsdale College Assistant Professor of Theology, looks at what we will do to AI and what AI will do to us.
Theology
When a Pope Writes and the Church Rebels
Richard Yoder reflects upon a not uncommon scenario.
Is Democracy Moral?
Zbigniew Stawrowski argues that modern democracy is moral but unethical.This Is Your Mind on Scriptures
Gabriel Reynolds, Francesca Murphy, Mun'im Sirry, and Tzvi Novick on the importance of minding scripture(s).
