The Benedictine Charism of Slow Evangelization
Br. Stanley Rother Wagner, OSB, a junior monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, on how ritual slowly cultivates the inner-longing of our hearts.
Articles
Desanitizing Christianity After St. Benedict and After Virtue
Gregory Floyd, Core Program at Seton Hall instructor, gets to the bottom of what Alasdair MacIntyre wanted to say about St. Benedict in After Virtue.
Remembering Creation Through the Saturday Sabbath
Fr. Matthew Dallman, pastor of the Parish of Tazewell County, recommends taking the Sabbath to contemplate the Lord through his wondrous works of creation.
Justice Kennedy, Judge Kavanaugh, and Our Two Supreme Courts
Richard Garnett, ND Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, pulls back the curtains to reveal how the Supreme Court really works.
The Horror Inherent in Leisure
Bo Bonner on the overlooked horror-inducing quality of leisure and its orientation toward transcendence.
The Personalist Awakening in 20th Century Catholic Moral Thought
Jay Martin, McGrath Institute Science & Religion Initiative Co-Director, sheds light on the ressourcement of the human person in recent Catholic thought.
The Mocking of Christ by the Glittering Spectacles of Consumerism
Alexander Pyles, writer and philosopher, takes a look at the "Gifts Glittering and Poisoned" of Ancient Rome and how the Eucharist defeats them.
Byung-Chul Han and the Subversive Power of Contemplation
Robert Wyllie mines the philosopher's theories for the reasons why even leisure burns us out in the Internet age.
Alexander Schmemann's Rejection of Orthodoxism
David Fagerberg, Notre Dame theology department professor of liturgical studies, looks at what Schmemann thought the liturgy is and what it is not.
Work: A Four-Letter Word?
Charles Kestermeier, SJ, instructor in the English department at Creighton University, reflects on the Christian ambivalence towards the world of work.
The Sacramentality of Time
Katherine Infantine, Roncalli HS theology teacher, demonstrates how sacramental practices give us leisure from the constant busyness of the late modern world.
Josef Pieper's Critique of Western Civ
Elias Crim, founder of Solidarity Hall and host of Dorothy's Place, reflects upon the subversive legacy of Josef Pieper, philosopher of leisure and culture.
The Digital Displacement of Transcendence at Concerts
Roberto De La Noval, ND PhD candidate in Theology, observes how the emergence of the "flattered self" obliterates secular analogues of transcendence.
How Should the Pro-Life Movement Address Charges of Racism?
Charles Camosy recommends the pro-life movement look to its past to see where it needs to go in the future.
The Patron Saint of Media Studies
Brett Robinson, Director of Communications at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, argues that the Eucharist drove McLuhan's techno-theological criticism.
The Idolatry of Work
Carole Baker, visual artist and ThD candidate at Duke Divinity, on resisting the temptation to imagine we live our lives outside of work when we clearly don't.
Prayer Begins in Pointlessness and Stupidity
Edmund Waldstein on praying from within our distractions.
The Unimaginable
Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, probes the penumbra between the imagined & the unimaginable where the mystery of God is made known to us.
Walker Percy and the Racist Tragedy of Southern Stoicism
Randall Rosenberg, professor of theology at Saint Louis University, writes about the battle between Christianity, Stoicism, and racism in Walker Percy's soul.
The Post-Liberal Spirituality of John Rawls
David Walsh, Catholic University of America Professor of Politics, argues John Rawls was no liberal Rawlsian in his lifelong commitment to thinking religion.