Timothy P. O'Malley
@timothypomalley
Theologian inspired by Augustine, Romano Guardini, and all the medievals. Leader and scholar in Catholic higher education. My heart is in the Smokies. I tweet.
The cover for my most recent book in the @avemariapress and McGrath Institute series is a book of meditations on the life of Mary.
"During the summer, we have more free time in which to gather our thoughts and reflect, and also to travel and spend time with each other. Let us make good use of this, by leaving behind the whirlwind of commitments and worries in order to savour a few moments of peace, of…
Pope Leo XIV: It's summer. We're too busy. Spend time with God and each other. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
At this stage, if you go to Jurassic Park, you deserve what happens to you.
I’m celebrating my 15th year as a faculty member at Notre Dame this month. It’s been among the great gifts of my life that I’ve had the opportunity to teach and research as an alum of this institution.
Two fun things recently came in the mail. The first is a book I blurbed on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist from The Catholic University of America Press, edited by Michael A. Dauphinais, Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP, and RogernSusie Van Vickle Nutt. It's really an indispensable…
There once was a time when national unity was possible. It was the early 90s: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg-9Hy…
🏆 25 CMA Awards! 🏆 We’re thrilled to share @avemariapress has been honored with 25 awards, including 6 #firstplace, from the @cm_association. Please join us in congratulating all of our authors and team members who had a hand in creating these #awardwinningbooks! 👏…
It will be at St. Gregory’s.
Can’t wait to be in Chicago to give this talk (which I had to postpone in April because of sickness).
Can’t wait to be in Chicago to give this talk (which I had to postpone in April because of sickness).
Putting finishing touches on a book I’m co-authoring on Catholic higher education with Routledge. It’s titillating to imagine the possibilities for renewal in a technocratic age based on our reading of Pieper. Also I think July will release me from writing bankruptcy for…
Manifold are the questions. I know academia is full of changes--but the idea that you simply take away a job without previously speaking to the person who occupied that job is an occasion of injustice. And it's bad for the kind of intellectual friendship that should characterize…
Now for some personal news: today is my last day as Dean. I was stunned to be informed by our new provost there will no longer be a Dean of Honors, period. Nor an Assistant Dean. Rather, I was told there will be a “director” of honors--but that person will not be me. (12/21)
I'm grateful to @CM_Association for recognizing my Romano Guardini-inspired book Behold, Believe, Become with first place honors @avemariapress.
"Only education as an introduction to the human and cosmic reality, in light of a hypothesis that is offered by a 'history' or 'tradition,' can systematically prevent young people from taking a first step that is disoriented and dissociated precisely on account of the…
