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## [Moral Virtue, The Grace of God, and Discipleship](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/08/16/moral-virtue-the-grace-of-god-and-discipleship)
Published by [William C. Mattison III](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/william-c-mattison-iii)
Moral theology has traditionally explored how people act in the world (“moral”) in the context of their faith in God (“theology”). This volume purposely examines morality in the context of Christian belief. What difference does faith make in how a person lives his or her life? Surely a person of faith engages in certain distinctive activities, such as going to church, praying, and reading the Bibl...
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## [The Dangerous Art of Becoming](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/08/01/the-dangerous-art-of-becoming)
Published by [Colleen Moore](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/colleen-moore)
I stopped writing cursive in the sixth grade. If I were to handwrite this sentence for you, you would likely find my penmanship immature, unrefined, and inefficient. Its unwieldy form and bubbly profile—adorned with loopty-loops and fancy curls—would sit fat, proud, and unapologetic upon the page, the way a toddler wears her protruding belly. Such is my cursive, hopelessly stuck in the grasp of my...
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## [The Pedagogy of Faith](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/08/01/the-pedagogy-of-faith)
Published by [Gerard F. Baumbach](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/gerard-f-baumbach)
Blessed be God!
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## [On Teaching Christianity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/08/01/on-teaching-christianity)
Published by [John Cavadini](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/john-cavadini)
Did you ever wonder how the Apostle Paul might have been evangelized? He gives us a hint in a famous passage in 1 Corinthians 15:
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## [Thoughts on a Theology of Teaching: “You give them something to eat”](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/08/01/thoughts-on-a-theology-of-teaching-you-give-them-something-to-eat)
Published by [M. Joseph Pedersen, C.S.C.](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/m-joseph-pedersen-c-s-c)
When I found out that I got a job teaching high school theology, I began to ask all of the teachers I knew what advice they had for me. I heard all kinds of things about classroom management and lesson plan preparation. However, the one piece of advice that has stayed with me came from a professor at Notre Dame.
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## [The Liturgy: Work of the Holy Trinity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/07/18/the-liturgy-work-of-the-holy-trinity)
Published by [Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/abbot-jeremy-driscoll-o-s-b)
It is well known that the reforms of the liturgy associated with Vatican II had as their goal greater participation on the part of all. Many things changed in the external celebration of the rites designed to facilitate this, and those changes have borne abundant fruit. But the renewal of the liturgy also wished to provide a fresh understanding of the meaning of the rites, a deeper theological gra...
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## ["Verbum Domini": Preaching and the Personal Encounter with Christ](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/07/11/verbum-domini)
Published by [Most Rev. Michael J. Byrnes](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/most-rev-michael-j-byrnes)
The Synod on the Word of God in October 2008 represented a theological and pastoral preparation for the Synod on the New Evangelization in 2012. Pope Benedict XVI begins the apostolic exhortation deriving from the former by expressing his desire “to point out certain fundamental approaches to a rediscovery of God’s word in the life of the Church as a wellspring of constant renewal” (*Verbum* *Domini,...*
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## [Preaching as Worship: Progress and Ongoing Issues in Roman Catholicism](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/07/11/preaching-as-worship)
Published by [Michael Connors, C.S.C.](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/michael-connors-c-s-c)
# Introduction: The Catholic Turn of the Word
The year is 1961. Father Smith, longtime Irish pastor of St. Mary’s Parish, has just concluded the reading of the Gospel—in Latin, of course. The people are seated, and Smith begins the announcements. “The Knights of Columbus will be having their monthly Fish Fry this Friday. . . . The Ladies’ Sodality is collecting canned goods for the poor. . . . Don’t...
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