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Church Life Today

Hosted by Dr. Lenny DeLorenzo, Ph.D., 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 a... Read more

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Kristin Collier on TheoBiology

Kristin Collier on TheoBiology

Were there long-term consequences for Mary who carried the Son of God in her womb? We can actually say something about t... Read more

19 Oct 2019

28mins

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John Cavadini on Dorothy Day and Devotion to the Saints

John Cavadini on Dorothy Day and Devotion to the Saints

Dorothy Day was a lot of things, but is she a Saint? By her own words, we should save her from the honor. She once blunt... Read more

3 Nov 2018

28mins

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Aimee Shelide Mayer on Loving God and Neighbor

Aimee Shelide Mayer on Loving God and Neighbor

Today we want to talk about the whole Gospel, and by that I mean contemplation and action, the Lord’s love and our respo... Read more

3 Aug 2019

29mins

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Ernest Morrell on Values-Based Education

Ernest Morrell on Values-Based Education

In this episode:Dr. Tim O’Malley interviews Dr. Ernest Morrell, Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the Uni... Read more

2 Jun 2018

28mins

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Bishop Robert Barron on the Religious Disaffiliation of Young People

Bishop Robert Barron on the Religious Disaffiliation of Young People

In this episode:Leonard DeLorenzo, Director of Undergraduate studies at the McGrath Institute of Notre Dame, interviews ... Read more

30 Apr 2018

28mins

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Abbot Austin Murphy OSB on Monastic Life and Human Ecology

Abbot Austin Murphy OSB on Monastic Life and Human Ecology

Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB, a Benedictine monk & superior of his religious community, talks on the Benedictines, Life ... Read more

7 Jul 2018

26mins

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Brad Wilcox on the State of the Family in America

Brad Wilcox on the State of the Family in America

What is the state of the family in the United States? What is the good news? What’s the bad news? And what does the Chur... Read more

10 Aug 2019

27mins

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Kristin Collier and Charlie Camosy on the COVID–19 Outbreak

Kristin Collier and Charlie Camosy on the COVID–19 Outbreak

Today I welcome a medical doctor and a bioethicist to talk about the developing situation surrounding the coronavirus ou... Read more

14 Mar 2020

27mins

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John Carr on Lessons for Moving Forward from the Sexual Abuse Crisis

John Carr on Lessons for Moving Forward from the Sexual Abuse Crisis

We welcome John Carr, Director of the initiative on Catholic Social thought and public life at Georgetown University. He... Read more

9 Feb 2019

28mins

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Geoffrey Keating on Beauty and Carpentry in the Catholic Life

Geoffrey Keating on Beauty and Carpentry in the Catholic Life

How important is beauty to Catholic life? What about the physical spaces where we worship? Engage in the liturgy and enc... Read more

23 Sep 2018

27mins

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Abigail Favale on Sex, Gender, and Feminism

Abigail Favale on Sex, Gender, and Feminism

Do you know how to talk about “gender” today? Does the Church? We might find ourselves caught up in language because we ... Read more

11 May 2019

28mins

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Anna Keating on Catholic Devotional Life at Home

Anna Keating on Catholic Devotional Life at Home

In this episode:Dr. Tim O’Malley interviews Anna Keating, author of The Catholic Catalogue and coordinator of Catholic L... Read more

7 May 2018

25mins

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Samantha Povlock on FemCatholic

Samantha Povlock on FemCatholic

Samantha Povlock doesn't believe you have to choose between being Catholic and being a feminist. She's even got a popula... Read more

2 Feb 2019

27mins

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David Fagerberg on C. S. Lewis and 'The Chronicles of Narnia'

David Fagerberg on C. S. Lewis and 'The Chronicles of Narnia'

Each year the McGrath Institute for Church Life hosts a lecture series that runs through Lent and Easter. Which invites ... Read more

16 Feb 2019

29mins

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Brandon Vogt on 'Why I Am Catholoc'

Brandon Vogt on 'Why I Am Catholoc'

In this episode:Dr. Tim O’Malley interviews Brandon Vogt, author of ‘Why I am Catholic (and You Should Be Too)’. In the ... Read more

14 May 2018

25mins

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Medi Volpe on a Contemplative Theology of the "In Between"

Medi Volpe on a Contemplative Theology of the "In Between"

Have you ever felt in between not quite sure where to fit? Today's guest on our show, she gets that. Except that, for he... Read more

21 Jul 2018

24mins

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Mary Mirrione on the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Mary Mirrione on the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

What if you could teach children to entrust themselves to the love of God throughout their entire lives? no matter what ... Read more

14 Jul 2018

25mins

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Joy Clarkson on Seeing, Creating, and Pursuing Beauty

Joy Clarkson on Seeing, Creating, and Pursuing Beauty

It was Fyodor Dostoevsky who famously said "Beauty will save the world", but do we take time to notice beauty? Will we c... Read more

26 Jan 2019

28mins

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Gloria Purvis on Revamping 'Morning Glory' (with a Social Justice Coda)

Gloria Purvis on Revamping 'Morning Glory' (with a Social Justice Coda)

"Morning Glory" is getting revamped so that it can be focused on more serious topics and less on the news. Then Lenny an... Read more

11 Jan 2019

28mins

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Audrey Assad on Faith, Doubt, and Longing for God

Audrey Assad on Faith, Doubt, and Longing for God

To write music about God, or to God, how much do you have to believe in God? Can you doubt? Can you struggle? And it is ... Read more

29 Sep 2018

28mins

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