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Tim Dulle, Jr.

Tim Dulle, Jr. is a Manresa Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Ignatian Service at Saint Louis University. He works as a cultural historian of American Catholicism, with an emphasis on Catholic identity and practice since the Second Vatican Council. His primary research project has focused on the American Pop artist and longtime Roman Catholic nun Corita Kent, and he has taught courses in American Religious History, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and Ignatian Spirituality.

Essays

Corita Kent and “A Sort of Growing Up”

This essay presents some historical sources for tracing and understanding Corita Kent’s departure from Catholic religious life and the institutional Catholic church. This effort to make sense of Corita’s spiritual trajectory sheds light on wider trends in Post-Vatican II U.S. Catholic life.

In Memoriam:                                                                      Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?