Renewing Nouvelle Théologie
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, makes evident why nouvelle théologie answers the questions raised by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age.
Articles
Gripping the Book of Nature's Reality
Scott Beauchamp follows the guidance of Simone Weil to come to grips with how reality grasps us.
The History of Natural Right
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, continues his series by surveying the history of natural right.
The Chief Obstacles to Good Spiritual Direction
Peter Andrastek, Senior Consultant for The Evangelical Catholic, outlines the main obstacles to consistently good spiritual direction on the parish level.
The Darkness of Hope
Kristen Drahos, Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, considers how Thérèse of Lisieux challenges Walter Benjamin's wreck of history.
The Anti-Catholicism of Heidegger's Black Notebooks
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, argues that the Black Notebooks reveal more about Heidegger's anti-Catholicism than about his anti-Semitism.
Confessions of a Feminist Heretic
Abigail Favale reflects on abortion.
When the State Kills
Charles C. Camosy, Life and Dignity Writing Fellow, highlights some very disconcerting facts about the death penalty in the United States.
The Political Pawning of Saints
John Michael Hogue, Su Casa Catholic Worker community member, looks back at the polarization that followed the canonizations of Sts. Romero and Paul VI.
Church Life Journal's Best of 2018
Artur Rosman, Managing Editor of Church Life Journal, reviews our journal's most-read essays of 2018 and looks forward to 2019.
Does the Mass Say Christmas Is About Justice?
John O’Callaghan, ND Associate Professor of Philosophy, questions the liturgy to see whether Christmas is about justice or... something else.
A Commonplace Christmas
Anne Horcher, University of Notre Dame English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, meditates upon G.K. Chesterton's poem "The Nativity."
Fourth Sunday of Advent: Someone Is Hidden in This Dark
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director, revisits the Jessica Powers poem "Advent" on the last Sunday of Advent.
Fear the Innocence of Children
Georges Bernanos imagines what an agnostic would preach to a congregation of ordinary believers.
Faith Is Not a Big Electric Blanket
Jordan Haddad, CUA Ph.D. student in Systematic Theology, discusses Flannery O'Connor's channeling of John the Baptist's freakish Advent spirit.
Love Is Always Conditional
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, on the conditions that make the human condition what it is.
The Four Waves of the U.S. Catholic Abuse Crisis
Kim Daniels, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought & Public Life Associate Director, puts the 2018 crisis in historical perspective & looks for a way forward.
Third Sunday in Advent: A Call to Surrender
Anne Horcher, University of Notre Dame English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, analyzes John Keble's “Third Sunday in Advent.”
The History of Natural Law
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, continues his series by laying out the history of natural law.
Fitting a Saddle Onto a Cow
Brooke Tranten, ND MTS history of Christianity student, observes how and why communism failed in Poland because of the Church.