

McGrath Institute for Church Life
Director of Education; Academic Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy; Editor, Church Life Journal
OSV News
November 24, 2023
Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, emphasized that much of the church’s year has historically been penitential.
USA Today
April 09, 2023
"Easter's roots (date back to) a day in the week in which Christ rose from the dead. It would have been the first day of the week after the Jewish Sabbath, which was Saturday," Timothy P. O’Malley, a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life, told USA TODAY.
Our Sunday Visitor
July 25, 2022
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Catholic News Service
July 12, 2022
Put another way: “Journalists and communicators have a role to play here, to let the eucharistic mystery of the church manifest itself for the life of the world,” said Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
June 20, 2022
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
KJZZ
Audio
February 16, 2022
According to Tim O’Malley, the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, this has happened before, "Now there's records of what was said. There's recordings. It gets out, it gets on the internet. People hear about it," said O’Malley. "So, I think this is something the church is going to have to discuss, how to govern the sacraments in a digital era."
National Catholic Reporter
January 01, 2022
A few months before the bishops' document was presented, Timothy O'Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, told CNS: "If you pay attention to what the bishops are saying to recent revisions and outlines of drafts of the document, you don't see it 'being sort of political.'
Religion News Service
November 18, 2021
Tim O’Malley, academic director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy, noted that Catholic liturgies don’t often rely on pronouns for God — though they are masculine, when present — and they frequently implement the trinitarian language of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Our Sunday Visitor
November 15, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
November 08, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
The Washington Post
November 02, 2021
For Timothy O’Malley, academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, the national controversy about Biden and Communion distracted from the fact that U.S. bishops had been working before his election on a plan to renew the Eucharist.
Our Sunday Visitor
November 01, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Crux
October 14, 2021
Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life who researches and teaches in the areas of marriage and family, explained that he believes society might be reaching a point of stasis in how far marriage will decline in the U.S.
Our Sunday Visitor
October 11, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
October 04, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
September 20, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
September 13, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
The Wall Street Journal
September 09, 2021
Some of the distinctive features of the Latin Mass can be applied to the new Mass, according to Timothy O’Malley, an expert on liturgy who teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
September 06, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
America
September 03, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
August 23, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
August 16, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
August 09, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
America
August 05, 2021
Timothy O’Malley, the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, provides a valuable contribution to the debate over the bishops’ upcoming document when he writes, “Even catechesis around the doctrine of real presence is insufficient for a robust affiliation with the Eucharistic Church.”
Our Sunday Visitor
August 02, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Slate
July 17, 2021
The issue, according to Timothy P. O’Malley, the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, was that many of the clergy and faithful who were drawn to the traditional mass also believed that the Latin Mass was the only authentic and valid way to worship.
National Catholic Reporter
July 07, 2021
"This is the great reckoning for the institutional church," said Timothy O'Malley, academic director of the Center for Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life. "A pandemic is never just about illness. Pandemics are about society" and they bring long-simmering areas of conflict to the front burner.
Our Sunday Visitor
July 01, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
America
June 22, 2021
On my podcast this week, professor Timothy O’Malley offers this insight: “If you want to know how Timothy O’Malley deals with this question of eucharistic coherence: Timothy O’Malley is very concerned about Timothy O’Malley.” This kind of self-reflection is essential for navigating the current debate.
Our Sunday Visitor
June 07, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
May 17, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
May 10, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Crux
May 07, 2021
Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life, identified economics as another factor that contributes to a declining birthrate.
Crux
April 28, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley is director of online education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life and academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
Our Sunday Visitor
April 05, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Crux
April 03, 2021
“It’s really important that the church over the next three, four weeks, five weeks, as we start to think post-pandemic more intensely, and even more over this summer period, doesn’t just get back to business as normal, but thinks very carefully about the strategy for cultivating and enriching this communal life right now,” Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life told Crux.
Catholic News Service
April 01, 2021
“The poll doesn’t note that fewer than 50% of American’s don’t believe in God. It’s important to note that across society institutional belonging is not high right now,” said Timothy O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
America
April 01, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley is director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life and author of Real Presence: What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter (Ave Maria Press, 2021).
Our Sunday Visitor
March 01, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, told Our Sunday Visitor that he believes the next 10 years will be “an extremely challenging” period for parish life in the United States.
Sojourners
January 11, 2021
“This sponsor would be involved in the process of one's religious formation, vouching that one was in fact ready for admission into the church,” theologian Timothy O'Malley told Sojourners.
Our Sunday Visitor
January 04, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
December 31, 2020
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
December 07, 2020
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
November 30, 2020
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.