Church Life Journal

Official page for theology, culture, & pastoral posts from @McGrathND Institute's online journal. Where higher learning meets faithful service.

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What is missing from mottos celebrating bonum, verum, and pulchrum is the first transcendental esse, being.
--Terence Sweeney

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Mercifully, holiness is not contingent on worldly credentials, and Servant of God Columba O’Neill (1848–1923) reached his heights while mending shoes and handing out Sacred Heart badges to generations of Notre Dame students.
--Meg Hunter-Kilmer

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My work has been concerned with discerning just what postmodernism means for theology, Christian philosophy, and the lived practice of the church’s worship and discipleship.
--James K.A. Smith

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Even as many cultures began distinguishing more clearly among the human dead, non-human spirits, and the gods, belief in ghosts persisted and indeed intensified.
--Brendan Case

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The bizarre idea that biological sex is “assigned” at birth for everyone is one of several myths about sex that have gained widespread acceptance in our time. These myths tend to cluster together, like one trapdoor that opens into another.
--Abigail Favale

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I have been conscious that the most substantive contributions I will likely be able to make to ongoing conversations about the Catholic novel will be, precisely, Catholic novels, or as some would have it, novels written by a Catholic.
--Katy Carl

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Many who take the course identify as atheist, but some are Christians who want to know more, while others are struggling with their beliefs. The course, it turns out, is a series of surprises for all.
--Paul Heck

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This implies that the research or inquiry proper to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition has an end that none of the disciplines can fully perform in and of themselves, but that each one is enhanced as it participates in the wider quest or inquiry.
--John Cavadini

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In giving up on or reducing our institutional identity we undermine actual (intellectual) diversity even while we talk more about diversity.
--Terence Sweeney

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Feelings, including our wonder which is materially identical with the desire for God, can be reclaimed through the process of self-appropriation in intellectual conversion.
--Roberto De La Noval

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What are the challenges that Catholic higher education faces at a global level? While a partial depiction of the phenomenon, Catholic identity is threatened at such institutions in a twofold manner.
--Timothy O'Malley

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This is the soul of Catholic higher education. It is the belief that students should have more than job training. They should have an opportunity to learn and think about themselves, their families and neighbors, the common good, and creation.
--Jason King

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Cather’s work, then, can and clearly has been embraced and appreciated as embodying an expression of the “Catholic Imagination.” But is it?
--Amy Welborn

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Why does Dante matter today? Why, among all the ten thousand things you could do should you face Dante? Well, you can know the tree by its fruit.
--Stephen Gregg

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What was supposed to be my response in this situation? What were supposed to be my words of comfort for my children? “What ought to be a Catholic parent’s response?” I wondered.
--LuElla D'Amico

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For Catholic communities of color, this crisis, and the ensuing dialogues regarding race in America, has created an urgent desire for the Church to deliver a pastoral response.
--Cary Dabney

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Cather’s work, then, can and clearly has been embraced and appreciated as embodying an expression of the “Catholic Imagination.” But is it?
--Amy Welborn

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In the Christian heritage, the feast par excellence is the Eucharist. One of the most artful allegories of the Eucharist in film is Babette’s Feast.
--Michael Breidenbach

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Many thanks to @cosmostheinlost and @ChurchLifeND for picking this up!

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If Catholic higher education has nothing to offer that is distinctive from what secular educational institutions offer, what is the point of its existence? This leads to a larger—and less practical—question: what does Catholicism itself have to offer the world of ideas?
--Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

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