Articles

  1. An Ethic of Listening

    I love to write and speak—definitely a verbal processor—but I wouldn’t say I’m naturally a good listener. This double-edged sword makes me an effective rhetorician but also a candidate for what St. Paul refers to ...

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  2. Globalized Secularity: An American-British Problem

    Editor’s Note: This week, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and the editor of Church Life is visiting the United Kingdom to give a series of talks on liturgy and secularization. He is also beginning an inter-discipl...

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  3. Westminster Cathedral and the Secular

    Editor's Note: This week, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and the editor of Church Life is visiting the United Kingdom to give a series of talks on liturgy and secularization. He is also beginning an inter-disciplinary ...

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  4. Can Liturgy Heal a Secular Age?

    Timothy P. O'Malley on how liturgy can be healing of a secular age. But only if we understand secularity and ritual well.

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  5. Can We Get Lent Wrong?

    Timothy O'Malley on the various ways that we can get Lent wrong.

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  6. 5 Lenten Practices that Aren't Giving Up Chocolate

    With Ash Wednesday now come and gone, Catholics everywhere embark on their journey of Lenten disciplines. Lenten penitence can quickly begin to feel rote. While there is still great spiritual benefit in denying ourselves dessert or Netfl...

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  7. Stories of Grace: Episode 12

    "It's a messy business, drowning in God's love and grace."  Humility After Pride On the 29th morning of October in the year 1994, my mother lost her favorite…

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  8. New Orleans and the Catholic Imagination

    Today is Mardi Gras. Timothy P. O'Malley treats the celebration of Mardi Gras as a way of understanding how to keep Holy Lent. Not with sadness but with hope.

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