Church Life Journal

06/03/2026

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

06/03/2026

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

06/02/2026

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

06/02/2026

Amidst the dark clouds haunting education, there is a real flourishing of the light. What unites this flourishing is that these institutions commit themselves—usually explicitly but sometimes implicitly—to the transcendentals of the good, the true, and the beautiful. These structure the educational approach and goals of these institutions, and this is excellent. But there is something missing from these three, something that must come before them, especially in our era of smartphones, social media, and AI. What is missing from mottos celebrating bonum, verum, and pulchrum is the first transcendental esse, being.
--Terence Sweeney

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06/02/2026

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

06/02/2026

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

06/02/2026

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

Terrence Sweeney on fundamental ontology. 

06/02/2026

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

Amy Welborn on literature.

06/02/2026

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

Stephen Gregg, OCist on hell and other people.

06/02/2026

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

LuElla D'Amico on fairy tales and faith formation.