The risk associated with composing a pre-national championship panegyric on the University of Notre Dame’s football team in a Jesuit publication is above average.
Timothy P. O'Malley
Timothy P. O'Malley is managing director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life and academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Why Eucharistic Presence Matters
The doctrine of Real Presence is important for many reasons, not least because it is through the presence of love itself that every Catholic may discover anew the art of self-giving love.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Denying Communion to Joe Biden won’t bring people back to Mass. The U.S. bishops likely know this.
Denying Communion to Joe Biden will not get Catholics back in the pews — or bring together a church whose members are sometimes more likely to bend the knee to an elephant or donkey than to the eucharistic Lord.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My 8-year-old son has taught me—a sacramental theologian—how to love the sacraments again.
I needed my beloved son to teach me once more to gaze with desire upon the Blessed Sacrament, to receive with joy the body and blood of Our Lord.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Why did so many Catholics leave after Vatican II?
What makes ‘Mass Exodus’ a must-read is careful attention to the qualitative analysis related to disaffiliation from the church.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
3 reasons the adoption tax credit shouldn’t be cut from the Republican tax plan
The tax credit helps eliminate the stigma of adoption, works on the principle of subsidiarity and prevents adoption from becoming nothing but the sale of children.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Catholics, Lutherans and the Eucharist: There’s a lot to share
“Pope Francis is not wrong to say that Catholics and Lutherans share much in common relative to Eucharistic Faith.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The sacramentality of adoption
Adoption is sacramental, revealing to humanity the possibility of divine love.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Waiting for Gabriel: Learning to Pray Through Infertility
How can you say to a complete stranger, a trusted teacher, a college classmate: “We’re infertile”?