Church Life Journal

To explain the collective body of Christ, St. Paul transports us to the more familiar terrain of the biological individual body and its parts, but does so in order to make us take a new look and to reorganize this terrain itself. --Jean-Louis Chrétien  hubs.ly/Q04xXQfz0

The dead rise again, if only momentarily before the general resurrection, in our memory on All Souls’ Day. --Julia Banasikowski-Weir hubs.la/Q04C-7vT0

Love is the only act which directs itself not towards an object, but towards another act; and, in this way, all resistance and limitation can be finally transformed into reciprocity. --Luisa Andrade Enabnit  hubs.la/Q04C-83t0

Many of us teaching at institutions that highlight the good, the true, and the beautiful do not necessarily spend a lot of time fleshing out the metaphysics.  --Terrence Sweeney  hubs.la/Q04C-7BV0

The human subject refers, cognitively and morally, not so much to objectified entities, but to her own duty; to who she is to be, since she exists. --Artur Grabowski hubs.la/Q04C-7y30

For Marcel, mystery does not name what philosophy fails to understand but a dimension of existence in which the knower is born into relationship to that which is otherwise. --Jacob Saliba  hubs.la/Q04C-7tn0

Love is the only act which directs itself not towards an object, but towards another act; and, in this way, all resistance and limitation can be finally transformed into reciprocity. --Luisa Andrade Enabnit  hubs.la/Q04C-7r00

Rather than offering us a comforting glimpse of eternity, Dickinson jolts us into confronting the afterlife as something real, something we must one day encounter ourselves, not simply something that happens to other people. --LuElla D’Amico hubs.la/Q04CS8tb0

Full-time motherhood apart from academia—the normally expected realm of creativity—made me more creative, not less. --Nadya Williams hubs.la/Q04CRGfZ0

Poetry, please believe me, often surprises its own maker: the end creation brings a surprise to its creator. --Krzysztof Koehler hubs.la/Q04CRG5Q0

The saints are our only hope for Christianity to be seen or listened to in the modern age, because of their Christological form, and ultimately because of the Cross.  --Cyril O’Regan hubs.la/Q04CRGfL0

Rather than offering us a comforting glimpse of eternity, Dickinson jolts us into confronting the afterlife as something real, something we must one day encounter ourselves, not simply something that happens to other people. --LuElla D’Amico hubs.la/Q04CS8t20

The arms of the Crucified are spread out to draw you to his heart. He wants your life in order to give you his. --Edith Stein hubs.la/Q04CRG5z0

Southwell invites his sixteenth-century English reader, along with me and my students, not to flee the tension of the suspense and “amazement” in which we find ourselves.  --Emily Ransom hubs.la/Q04CRGfy0

Modernity’s monstrosity is not past redemption: the life and selfhood it seeks can be found in the divine source of both. --Angela Franks hubs.la/Q04CRG6K0

Rather than offering us a comforting glimpse of eternity, Dickinson jolts us into confronting the afterlife as something real, something we must one day encounter ourselves, not simply something that happens to other people. --LuElla D’Amico hubs.la/Q04CS8lJ0

If we can overcome an individualistic, instrumental, consumerist, and dataist approach, will it help us recruit students and attract support? --Heidi Bostic hubs.la/Q04CKKBL0

What is needed for institutional diversity is not primarily aiming for diversity but aiming for the true and good as best you understand it.  --Terence Sweeney hubs.la/Q04CJpZK0

Catholic education provides a real and true intellectual option in American higher education, badly needed in a time in which our culture has a lost an “ear” for mystery. --John C. Cavadini  hubs.la/Q04CJq1f0

Sheen considered teaching to be sacred, a process capable of communicating the divine at any turn. --Troy Kassien hubs.la/Q04CJq310