---
title: Essays – Church Life Journal | Culture (2)
description: Culture | (2)
---
Search
[](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
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/04/04/the-dignity-of-a-human-person-a-catholic-doctrine)
## [The Dignity of a Human Person: A Catholic Doctrine](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/04/04/the-dignity-of-a-human-person-a-catholic-doctrine)
Published by [Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/cardinal-timothy-m-dolan)
If perchance there might be a person in this audience from Wisconsin, Missouri, or New York, whom I had the honor of confirming, be patient with me, please, for, odds are that I used this same story during my sermon that day.
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[April 04, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/04/04/the-dignity-of-a-human-person-a-catholic-doctrine)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/cardinal-timothy-m-dolan) / [doctrine](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/doctrine) / [human dignity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/human-dignity)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/healing-and-culture)
## [Healing and Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/healing-and-culture)
Published by [John O’Callaghan](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/john-ocallaghan)
> He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn and cared for him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, “Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.” Which of these, in your opinion, was neighbo...
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[March 07, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/healing-and-culture)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [healing](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/healing) / [liturgy](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/liturgy) / [bioethics](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/bioethics) / [johnocallaghan](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/johnocallaghan)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-healing-power-of-beauty)
## [The Healing Power of Beauty](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-healing-power-of-beauty)
Published by [Jennifer Newsome Martin](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/jennifer-newsome-martin)
# A Triptych of Short Fiction, Sacred Art, and Modern Poetry
This is an essay about vision and blindness, about seeing and the failure to see, about wholes and fragments, sickness and healing, light and darkness, about nativity and the rebirth to eternal youth, about a mode of beauty that does not and cannot exclude ugliness, the nocturnal, suffering, and death but rather fundamentally transfigures ...
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[March 07, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-healing-power-of-beauty)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/hans-urs-von-balthasar) / [jennifernewsomemartin](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/jennifernewsomemartin) / [Matthias Grünewald](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/matthias-grunewald) / [Raymond Carver](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/raymond-carver) / [T.S. Eliot](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/t-s-eliot) / [theological aesthetics](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/theological-aesthetics)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-idea-of-a-catholic-university)
## [The Idea of a Catholic University](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-idea-of-a-catholic-university)
Published by [Timothy O'Malley](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/timothy-omalley)
Those privy to conversations in Catholic higher education in the last twenty years are well aware of the contentious status of discourse regarding Catholic identity among these institutions of higher learning.[\[1\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture/page/2#_edn1) Does the Catholic identity of such schools relate primarily to the prominence of theological and philosophical education in the curriculum? Is it ensured through an emphasis on tangible C...
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[March 07, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/the-idea-of-a-catholic-university)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [Catholic education](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/catholic-education) / [John Henry Newman](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/john-henry-newman) / [timothypomalley](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/timothypomalley)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/palliative-care-and-dignity)
## [Palliative Care and Dignity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/palliative-care-and-dignity)
Published by [Phillipa Knaggs](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/phillipa-knaggs)
To be healed does not mean to be cured. Cure restores a former state of being, an expected state, a comfortable state. Medical treatment and prayers for miracles of cure are powerful and sometimes effective. Healing, however, encompasses a much greater and deeper change in someone’s life. Cure may be part of this, but is not a necessary part. Healing opens up a new life, a new way of understanding...
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[March 07, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/03/07/palliative-care-and-dignity)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [phillipaknaggs](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/phillipaknaggs) / [human dignity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/human-dignity) / [palliative care](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/palliative-care)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/an-interview-with-anna-keating-of-the-catholic-catalogue)
## [An Interview with Anna Keating of The Catholic Catalogue](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/an-interview-with-anna-keating-of-the-catholic-catalogue)
Published by [The Editors](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/the-editors)
"Being Catholic means living a life. The practice precedes the theology."
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[February 10, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/an-interview-with-anna-keating-of-the-catholic-catalogue)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [annakeating](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/annakeating) / [4.1](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/4-1) / [editors](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/editors)
[](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/matter-matters)
## [Matter Matters: On the Need for a Pastoral Theology of Radical Particularity](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/matter-matters)
Published by [Tania Geist](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/tania-geist)
We like to pretend as if we have total control. “Measureless acquisition, consumption, or economic growth in a finite environment is a literally nonsensical idea; yet the imperative of growth remains unassailable, as though we did not really inhabit a material world,” writes Rowan Williams in “Embracing Our Limits,” an analysis of Pope Francis’ encyclical *[Laudato Si’](http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html)*. “The plain thereness of the p...
Share
- [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)
[February 10, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/02/10/matter-matters)
[Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays) / [Culture](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture) / [taniamgeist](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/taniamgeist) / [4.1](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/4-1)
[Next Posts](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture/page/1)
### Share
[](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dfacebook) [](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dlinkedin) [](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&source=tweetbutton&text=Essays%20%E2%80%93%20Church%20Life%20Journal%20%7C%20Culture%20%282%29) [](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail%20&body=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fmcgrathblog.nd.edu%2Fcategory%2Fessays%2Ftopic%2Fculture%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail)
### Categories
- [Essays (36)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/essays)
- [Culture (17)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/culture)
- [Theology (10)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/theology)
- [Practice (9)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/practice)
- [Archive (8)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/archive)
- [Pope Francis (8)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/pope-francis)
### About the ICL
The Institute for Church Life animates the University of Notre Dame’s direct service to the Church through outreach in theological education, research, faith formation, and leadership development.
### Church Life Journal
- [About](http://churchlife.nd.edu/about/)
- [Archives](http://churchlife.nd.edu/archives/)
- [Contact](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contact/)
- [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/)
- [Journal Submission Guidelines](http://churchlife.nd.edu/journal-submission/)
### Follow Us
-
-
-
Copyright © 2016 University of Notre Dame | Institute for Church Life