A Prayer for the Rich?
Julia Smucker, theologian, translator, & activist, builds the case for a more universal application of DB Hart's debt-driven reading of the Lord's Prayer.
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The Polish Romantic Messianism of Saint John Paul II
Paweł Rojek, Jagiellonian University Institute of Philosophy professor, argues that you can only understand John Paul II through his Polish Romantic Messianism.
Reason’s Shadow: Romanticism's Impact on Catholic Thought
Kristen Drahos, Postdoc Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, testifies to what Catholicism learned from Romanticism.
Musical Mystagogy: St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director, gives a musical introduction to the history of the Sacred Heart devotion.
Must Catholics Hate Hegel?
Jordan Daniel Wood & Justin Shaun Coyle rebut the claim that Hegel's philosophy ruined German Catholicism.
Christ Doesn't Save Us by Words First of All, but by His Body
Emmanuel Falque, phenomenological philosopher from the Catholic University of Paris, brings the chaos of the body back into philosophy through theology.
Emmanuel Falque: Eucharistic Crossings Between Philosophy and Theology
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, delivers a paean to Emmanuel Falque's Eucharistic contribution to the theological turn in French philosophy.
A Prayer for the Poor
David Bentley Hart, theologian and translator of the New Testament, imagines the Lord's Prayer anew by analyzing its historical context of debt slavery.
The Mass: Heart of the Church and Academia
Leonardo Franchi, lecturer in Religious Education at the University of Glasgow, discusses the importance of the liturgy to Catholic academic life.
The Assumption and Gender
James Waalkes, transitional deacon for the Diocese of Arlington (VA), examines what the dogma of the Assumption of the BVM tells us about reality.
Our Lady of Lourdes and the Pathologizing of Pain
Artur Rosman on the Lourdes-based Catholic resistance to the anesthetic revolution.
Fund-Raising Is Always a Call to Conversion
Fr. James Junípero Moore, O.P. and Christopher Hanzeli argue conversion is key for fundraisers in order for them to not treat their parishioners like ATM machines.
It's More Effective to Attract Than to Simply Chastise
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, on the interior life that made St. Philip Neri so attractive and effective.
The Alarm of War
Hans Tolpingrud, veteran of Afghanistan and Lutheran vicar, gives us a Memorial Day reminder from Jeremiah that the time of destruction is coming.The World Was Made for the Sake of the Church
John Cavadini, Director of the ND McGrath Institute for Church Life, thinks through baptism and the Church in a premodern, multi-dimensional, way.
Voucher Programs: Problems and Promises for Catholic Schools
Brett Bertucio, UW-Madison PhD student in education policy, uses historical examples to weigh the pros and cons of state funding for Catholic schools.
Let's Not Ignore Scientific Faith
Noelle Johnson, MICL intern in the Science & Religion Initiative, enlists Michael Polanyi to discuss the faith and beliefs that undergird science itself.
The Practice of Catholicism and Modern Identity
Justin Brophy, OP on the Cartesian mind/body split.
There Is No Salvation Through the University
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, on the insignificance of law school admissions and entrance into MBA programs for salvation.
The Eschatological Marian Image
Thomas Pfau, Duke University Mary Baldwin Professor of English, on why van Eyck's paintings occupy a liminal space between iconography and realism.