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The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
In 2022, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that the Church in this country would undertake a Eucharistic Revival, as a way to bolster Catholics’...
View EventThe Church, The Healing Community
In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development called upon the Church to live out its call as a healing community. Today, when one in...
View EventAddiction and Recovery: Accompaniment Toward Wholeness and Healing
Join the McGrath Institute and Catholic in Recovery for a discussion with leading thinkers in addiction recovery, psychiatry, and theology. Drawing on their respective experiences...
View EventYouth Mental Health: Belonging and Hope in an Age of Loneliness
In 2021, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory on the crisis of mental health among American youth. Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental illness...
View EventWho Is My Neighbor? Racism and the Catholic Social Tradition
A conversation about race relations with Ernest Morrell, Center for Literacy Education and John Cavadini, McGrath Institute for Church Life, moderated by Diane Desierto, Keough...
watch videoOppenheimer, with Leonard DeLorenzo, Phil Sakimoto, and Ted Barron
In 1965, in an NBC News documentary, J. Robert Oppenheimer reflected on his role in leading the Manhattan Project that yielded the first nuclear weapons by saying this: “We knew...
Listen to PodcastConversations That Matter | Virtual Apocalypse: Renewing Christian Culture in a Digital World
Episode 2: The Virtue of Art Explore how the experience of making and enjoying art reminds us what it means to be human in a world of increasing automation and artificial...
watch videoConversations That Matter | Virtual Apocalypse: Renewing Christian Culture in a Digital World
Episode 1: The Art of Virtue Explores the relationship between the ways that technology is shaping our experiences of faith and community and the virtues required to live well...
watch videoA Culture of Life in Post-Dobbs America
Join the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity and the Notre Dame Right to Life Club as they welcome Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and...
View EventRenewing the Parish through Eucharistic Reverence: A Retreat Guide for the Parish Staff
This resource from the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy is a template for a day-long retreat in which parish leadership (staff, members of the parish council, etc.) communally assess...
Read ArticleSt. Nicholas of Myra
Gabriel Radle, the Rev. John A. O’Brien Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, presents the engaging and lively story of the 4th century bishop St....
watch videoInto Life
The Sisters of Life and the McGrath Institute for Church Life teamed up with CampCampo Films to create original 12-part video series Into Life based on the work of the Sisters...
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