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Leonard J. DeLorenzo

Leonard J. DeLorenzo, PhD, is the director of undergraduate studies at Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life.

Kneeling in the pigpen: Human connection in the age of efficiency

January 7, 2026
By Leonard J. DeLorenzo
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

It’s easier than ever to pull away from people with minimal consequence: ghost someone, block, unfollow. We’ve built technologies that make disconnection frictionless.

Corridors of gratitude

December 7, 2025
By Leonard J. DeLorenzo
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

God doesn’t wait for us to get our spiritual act together before he moves on our behalf. He just asks us to turn toward him with whatever we’ve got, however inadequate it feels.

Beauty as truth?

October 3, 2025
By Leonard J. DeLorenzo
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary

Sarah Clarkson’s book, “This Beautiful Truth: How God’s Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness,” is a remarkable corrective to our persistent urge to “make sense” of evil and suffering.

All creation gives praise: Seeking God — and wonder — in cosmos

August 31, 2025
By Leonard J. DeLorenzo
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Wonder takes time; it is more than surprise and interruption. Wonder is a relationship of intimacy, where you find yourself in awe at something that is beyond you, which becomes more fascinating the longer you dwell with it.

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