Articles

  1. The Sacraments of Love and Death

    Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, examines married life and the end of life in her series on the sacraments.

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  2. Dante and the Liturgical Formation of Desire

    Randall Rosenberg, professor of theology at Saint Louis University, unveils the deep liturgical roots of Dante's poetic re-integration of desire and love.

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  3. Why the Eucharist?

    Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, explains why and how the Eucharist loves us into being.

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  4. Skin in the Game

    Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, analyzes the demanding formational theology of the film Paul, Apostle of Christ.

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  5. Why Baptism and Confession?

    Kathryn Thompson (Notre Dame 2017), medical student at the University of Chicago, on what God does with us in the sacraments of baptism and confession.
  6. Amor Ergo Sum: Sacramental Personhood

    Christina Condyles, editor with Liturgy Training Publications, on the need for our daily life to reflect our participation in the Body of Christ.
  7. The Annunciation and Vocational Fear

    Samuel Bellafiore, seminarian for the Diocese of Albany, NY, looks to the Virgin Mary to show us how to approach priestly celibacy in sex-saturated times.

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  8. Why the Sacraments?

    Kathryn Thompson (ND '17), first year medical student at the University of Chicago, on Christ drawing near through the sacraments.
  9. Why Must We Go to Church on Sunday?

    Christina Condyles, editor with Liturgy Training Publications, on why does it matter if we go to church on Sunday, rather than praying on our own?
  10. Resetting the Synod

    Leonard DeLorenzo, McGrath Institute for Church Life lecturer, counsels avoiding antagonisms in debates about Synod 2018 by modelling mercy.

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  11. Being Liturgical

    Timothy P. O'Malley, Director of the University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, on the kind of formation that is essential to the post-modern age.

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  12. Holy Saturday: Healing through the Crucified One

    Michael Altenburger, PhD candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, on why Christianity is not a solution to suffering in this life.

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  13. Good Friday: Creation Always Exists in Darkness

    Domenic Canonico, MTS student at the University of Notre Dame, contemplates the Trinity through William Congdon's depiction of Good Friday's sublime suffering.

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