The Immaculate Conception: A Dogma of Consent
Renée Roden on freedom to love.
Articles
The Problem of Experience
What happens when experience is treated as an end unto itself? Madeline Running thinks about how young people might properly understand experience in college.
Stories of Grace: Episode 7
"Like performing and articulating music, we are meant to develop our relationship with God so that we can perform mercy and articulate love to all of humanity." We all have bad habits. Nail biting, hair twirling, maybe midnight snac...
Burial of the Dead: Opportunities and Challenges
Brian McMichael of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend suggests that the pastoral rites for the dead are an occasion for practicing the virtue of hope.
Black Friday, Advent, and a Nativity Set
Timothy P. O'Malley offers a way to get ready for the season of Advent. Forget heading to the malls with the crowds on Black Friday and instead set up a Nativity Set.Domus Dei, Domus Ecclesiae: Sacred Space and the Liturgy
We can convey a lot by how we choose to decorate our homes. Growing up, guests to our home could learn (at least on a surface level) that my family was Catholic, that we were Mexican-American, and that we were huge Notre Dame football fa...
Lectio Divina with Middle Schoolers
Sami Burr learns to encounter Jesus Christ in Lectio Divina as a teacher. The teacher isn't just facilitating an activity. The teacher must also pray.
Teaching As If the Kingdom Has Come
Alex White on how the theology teacher can't be complacent as an educator. The theology teacher is to teach as if the kingdom of God itself has come.
Stories of Grace: Episode 6
"I cannot even begin to express how much that small bit of empathy meant to me. My idea of this monster I've been fighting for so long was beginning to be transformed by just five words." …
Abstraction, Contemplation, and the Architectural Imagination
The Question: The Story at the Heart of Faith: Can abstraction call the person into the fullness of humanity? The Working Definitions: Contemplation/Contemplative Imagination: The total imagination involving all of our faculties: thinkin...