Timothy O'Malley
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Director of Education; Academic Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy; Editor, Church Life Journal
- Catholic Church
- Catholic liturgy and sacraments
- Catholic spirituality and formation
- Catholic doctrine on marriage and family
- Catholic identity in educational institutions
- St. Augustine
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Our Sunday Visitor
Is Latin a sacred language?
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
Catholic journalists urged to face media, church distrust head-on
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
Hand or tongue? Kneeling or standing? Either way, receiving the Eucharist should be an act of communion
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
Thousands of baptisms may be invalid because Phoenix priest used the wrong phrase
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
US bishops stress need for Catholics to deepen understanding of Communion
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
What are God’s pronouns? How the church today is (or isn’t) gendering God
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
Opening the Word: Jesus, the king
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
Opening the Word: A serious end
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
Draft of U.S. Catholic bishops’ Communion document doesn’t mention Biden or abortion
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
Opening the Word: Giving all
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
U.S. Church strengthening support for marriage
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
Opening the Word: The final misunderstanding
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
Opening the Word: Give it up
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
Opening the Word: Whoever gives
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
Opening the Word: Jealousy and ambition: The root of sin
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
The Power of the Latin Mass
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
Opening the Word: The hidden Messiah
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
Opening the Word: The hidden Messiah
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
Opening the Word: Defiled heart, defiled hands
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
Opening the Word: Bread of life discourse: Parts 4 and 5
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
Opening the Word: The feast of the Assumption
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
The U.S. bishops’ document on the Eucharist could benefit young Catholics
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
Opening the Word: Bread of Life discourse — Part 3
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
The Seemingly Minor Change the Pope Just Made That Is Freaking Out Conservative Catholics
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
What will your parish look like post-pandemic? It may depend on how it responded to coronavirus
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
Opening the Word: The return to basics
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
It’s legitimate to debate President Biden receiving Communion. But we should consider our own worthiness, too.
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
Opening the Word: The supreme generosity of new life in God
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
Opening the Word: ‘Not mine but yours’
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
Opening the Word: Witnesses on earth
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
Sharp decline in U.S. birthrate worrying to Church leaders
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
New book looks into the importance of the Real Presence in life of the Church
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
Opening the Word: One heart, one mind
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
Church ponders the pastoral ‘now’ awaiting post-pandemic future
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
Poll finds church membership continues downward trend in 21st century
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
My 8-year-old son has taught me—a sacramental theologian—how to love the sacraments again.
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
What will Catholic community look like after COVID?
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
From Tertullian to Disney: 2,000 years of Godparenting
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
Opening the Word: Beloved, come
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
Opening the Word: The mystery of family life
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
Opening the Word: Lessons from John the Baptist: ‘I am not’
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
Opening the Word: Awaiting redemption
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.