Posts Tagged ‘Notre Dame’
Notre Dame pro-life initiatives
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 17, 2009
Fr. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, is proposing some pro-life initiatives at the university. He is also planning to march in the January 22 March for Life in Washington. LifeSiteNews.com has the story. Jay Anderson has more at First Thoughts, including links to other commentary.
Book note: What Happened to Notre Dame?, by Charles E. Rice
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 3, 2009
Barb at SFO Mom has info on a new book that looks at (among other things) how Notre Dame came to abandon Christian principles, and what might be learned from its recent scandals, and what might be done to restore this ‘Catholic’ university in the wake of its decision to defy Catholic teaching by honoring the most pro-abortion [...]
On dialogue, and evil, and ‘compassionate’ and ‘subtle’ violence
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: June 5, 2009
David L. Schindler, in asking questions about Notre Dame’s present of an honorary degree to President Obama, puts some of the controversy into moral and historical perspective. Schindler is an editor at Communio: International Catholic Review, and is a faculty member at John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. hat tip: Alliance Alert
Fr. John Corapi on the Notre Dame scandal
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: May 8, 2009
Seeing past the present controversy
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: May 6, 2009
Zenit has an interview with Mariangela Sullivan, the founder of a new law student coalition at Notre Dame called Notre Dame Action Coalition. In the interview, Sullivan takes a long view, addressing the years-long divisions in the Catholic church that have now come to a head, and looking forward. While the discussion is aimed primarily at Catholics, there’s [...]
More Notre Dame commentary, and related
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: May 5, 2009
Patrick O’Hannigan is Defending Mary Ann Glendon (The American Spectator, May 4, 2009). Not that she needs it, but that she deserves it. Glendon graciously, and with integrity, declined an award from Notre Dame, and bowed out from speaking at this year’s graduation. There is a link to a reprint of her open letter, in [...]
Peaceful boycott planned at Notre Dame
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: May 5, 2009
My thanks to those students who are trying to find ways to constructively deal with the outrage of a pro-abortion politician being asked to give their commencement speech at a Catholic university. (You might be glad to hear that plans to hold a Mass at the same time as commencement have been cancelled, it having [...]
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