Church Life Today
Hosted by Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo, of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame (http://mcgrath.nd.edu), Church Life Today features conversations with pastoral leaders and scholars from around the country and covers issues that matter most to Church life today. Church Life Today is an OSV Podcasts partner.
Episodes
228 episodes
True Genius: The Mission of Women in Church and Culture, with Abigail Favale
Thirty years ago, in both Evangelium Vitae and his Letter to Women, John Paul II issued a clear call for the genius of women to be “more fully expressed in the life of society as a whole, as well as in the life of the Church” ...
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Church Life Today Rewind: C.S. Lewis's ‘The Great Divorce’: a discussion with Josh McManaway
You can’t take a souvenir from Hell into Heaven; likewise, you can’t fit the realities of Heaven into Hell. That is Gospel truth for C. S. Lewis, especially as he imagines the separation between Heaven and Hell, vice and virtue, corrupt loves a...
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Praise Her in the Gates: Telling the Pro-Life Story, with Brian Kennedy
“The Gospel is not some vague palliative, it’s a man raised from the dead.” The Pro-Life Movement has, for several decades now, remembered the dead, principally those children lost ...
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The Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence and Our Humanity, with Stephanie DePrez
Agentic AI is a term that will be new to many people. If we were to think of artificial intelligence in waves, the first wave was about making predictions and the second wave was about generating content. This third wave, known as Agentic AI, i...
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How Many Students Are Studying Theology?!, with Anthony Pagliarini
When people hear about the undergraduate theology program at the University of Notre Dame they are genuinely astonished. They had no idea that that many students were choosing to study theology. Each year, the number of students grows....
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Rethinking Sex, with Christine Emba
For years now, modern-day sexual ethics has held that “anything goes” when it comes to sex—as long as everyone says yes, and does so enthusiastically. So why, even when consent has been ascertained, are so many sexual experiences filled with fr...
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Saints Who Flew, with Carlos Eire
Flying is impossible. Well, not strictly impossible, because we fly in airplanes and hot air balloons, but you know what I mean: human beings can’t fly. It’s impossible. Except here’s the thing: a good number of people –– hundreds, ...
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Dilexit Nos – Part 2, a conversation with Abigail Favale and Brett Robinson
Notre Dame professors Abigail Favale and Brett Robinson join me today to talk about Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Dilexit Nos
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Dilexit Nos – Part 1, a conversation with Joshua McManaway and Melissa Moschella
Notre Dame professors Melissa Moschella and Joshua McManaway join me today to talk about Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Dilexit ...
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The Catholicity of Montessori Education, with Beth Capdevielle
In her 1936 book, The Secret of Childhood, Maria Montessori writes that “We must wake up to the great reality that children have a psychic life whose delicate manifestations escape notice and whose pattern of activity can be unconsciou...
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The Vigil Project, with Andrew Goldstein
The Vigil Project is a nonprofit Catholic apostolate and collective of musical artists dedicated to leading people to an encounter with God through music. Their work stretches from the liturgy to everyday life, from Sunday worship and Feast Day...
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Graham Greene’s ‘The End of the Affair’: a discussion with Josh McManaway
College students really love The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. Both Josh McManaway and I have taught this book in undergraduate courses, with great success. Josh has used this book in a theology course on “Conversion,” and I have...
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What Young Adults Are Seeking in Faith and Life, with Jeff Keuss
Purpose and meaning, healing and growth, community and fellowship—these values have traditionally been found in church. Though they are leaving the pews in droves, young adults are still seeking these spiritual benefits. Based on five years of ...
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Nationwide Study on Faith and Relationships, with J.P. De Gance
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if the most current social science research discovered not some new and unheard-of things but rather ancient and even biblical truths? The nonprofit organization Communio is reporting that this is indeed what is happe...
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Parenting as Complex and Beautiful Vocation, with Holly Taylor Coolman
“The call to parenting will never be an easy one. To have your heart walk around outside your body means that your heart will be bumped and bruised along the way. It is not a vocation to be pursued in isolation. What parents need is a networ...
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Prioritizing Faith in College
In this special episode, we share nine practical tips for how to prioritize faith when you go off to college. This is different than just trying to “keep your faith,” which is itself possibly a losing proposition. Rather than trying to “keep...
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The Monastery, the Boardroom, and Daily Life, with John Cannon
“Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these other things will be given to you besides.” When the Lord speaks to his disciples about anxieties, about busyness, about the hustle and bustle of the world, he does not lead them to abandon everythi...
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Behold God’s Love: A Eucharistic Musical, with Carolyn Pirtle
“I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit” (John 15:5).Disciples are Christ’s branches. We grow from him. His life courses through us. The fruit we bear is the sign of his love.A...
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From Possessiveness to Gratitude, with Tania Geist
The Lord gives us what we cannot make or do for ourselves. Our first task in life is to receive. And from what we receive, we are to be changed. The mystery of the Eucharist abides in that exchange: receiving, becoming.In a new book titl...
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Memoirs, Ghostwriting, and Deep Listening, with Jessica Bross
Jessica Bross helps people find their stories, craft their stories, and tell their stories. In fact, she usually writes out other people’s stories in their own voice. Jessica ghostwrites memoirs. She listens to people, she listens more, she hel...
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Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America, with Ken Craycraft
It’s hard—and getting harder—to discern the proper relationship between our Catholic faith and American political life. Perhaps it is time to reset the framework for how we engage politics as Catholics, even by broadening our understanding of o...
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C.S. Lewis's ‘The Great Divorce’: a discussion with Josh McManaway
You can’t take a souvenir from Hell into Heaven; likewise, you can’t fit the realities of Heaven into Hell. That is Gospel truth for C. S. Lewis, especially as he imagines the separation between Heaven and Hell, vice and virtue, corrupt loves a...
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In Search of a Full Life: A Practical and Spiritual Guide
Because of Christ, the spiritual life is practical, and the practical life is spiritual. The Incarnation guarantees that. In this special episode, Leonard DeLorenzo shares some of the fruits of his newly published work,
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