--- title: Essays – Church Life Journal | Timothy O'Malley description: "Timothy P. O’Malley is the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, where he engages in scholarship that seeks to retrieve biblical, catechetical, and liturgical insights that facilitate a renewal of the Church’s liturgical imagination. He is also an associate professional specialist in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses on preaching, catechesis, liturgical theology, and the Scriptures. In addition to authoring numerous articles, the book Liturgy and the New Evangelization, and a forthcoming monograph entitled On Praise: Worship and the Eschatological Imagination, O’Malley is the founding editor for Church Life." --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ESSAYS ## Timothy O'Malley ![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Tim-OMalley-e1454529580605.jpg) Timothy P. O’Malley is the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, where he engages in scholarship that seeks to retrieve biblical, catechetical, and liturgical insights that facilitate a renewal of the Church’s liturgical imagination. He is also an associate professional specialist in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses on preaching, catechesis, liturgical theology, and the Scriptures. In addition to authoring numerous articles, the book Liturgy and the New Evangelization, and a forthcoming monograph entitled On Praise: Worship and the Eschatological Imagination, O’Malley is the founding editor for Church Life. ### Recent Posts [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/OMalley-Marriage-1-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-sacrament-of-marriage-and-the-healing-of-desire) ## [The Sacrament of Marriage and the Healing of Desire](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-sacrament-of-marriage-and-the-healing-of-desire) Published by [Timothy O'Malley](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/timothy-omalley) Within Catholicism, there is a significant vocation crisis, and it relates to the sacrament of marriage. In 1970, there were 426,309 sacramental celebrations of marriage in the United States with a Catholic population of 51 million.[\[1\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/timothy-omalley#_edn1) In 2015, there were 148,134 marriages with a Catholic population of 81 million. While quantitative data does not tell a narrative, it remains the case that sacramen... 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Is it ensured through an emphasis on tangible C... 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