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‘This is more than one issue’: Students gather to protest Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation

Mariah Rush | Friday, October 30, 2020

A crowd of hundreds of students carrying handmade signs and LGBTQ+ pride flags gathered on Library Lawn Thursday evening to protest the Monday confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. With security present, demonstrators gathered by the Acousticafe stage to make their voice heard by protesting Barrett’s confirmation and her some of her views involving sexual

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Bishop McElroy addresses SMC community, invites audience to vote faithfully

Genevieve Coleman | Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Saint Mary’s hosted Bishop Robert McElroy who spoke in a lecture titled “Voting as an Authentic Disciple” Tuesday evening — a talk centered around voting and considering political issues as Catholic voters. The event was sponsored by Saint Mary’s Campus Ministry, the Office for Civic and Social Engagement, the Center for Spirituality and Notre Dame

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Art installation protesting immigrant treatment disappears, prompts search, conversation

Isabella Volmert | Friday, October 9, 2020

At the end of South Quad by O’Shaughnessy Hall lays the shape of a small body covered with a thin foil blanket within a wire cage. Posters asked passersby, “What are you voting for?” The visual demonstration, created by the Student Coalition for Immigration Advocacy (SCIA), was constructed to spark conversation about immigration injustice in

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Let’s be honest, practicing Catholics

Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 5, 2020

As Catholic Christians, we understand full well the importance of good works, which we know to be integral to our salvation. In fact, we stand apart from many of our fellow Christians in this regard, the majority of whom maintain that faith alone is adequate justification for God’s pardon. Frequently, such works are associated with

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What would Jesus do?

Ashton Weber | Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Growing up as an attendee of Catholic school and Sunday mass, I became quite familiar with Bible stories, especially the narration of episodes in Jesus’ life that are found in the New Testament. Of these recorded episodes in Jesus’ life, one has always been especially confusing to me: the story of the rich young man.

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PrismND officers advocate for LGBTQ+ community

Genevieve Redsten | Thursday, October 17, 2019

October is LGBT History Month, celebrating the history and resilience of the LGBTQ community. But PrismND, Notre Dame’s only official LGBTQ+ student organization, is committed to promoting pride and allyship year-round. As they plan for the year ahead, PrismND’s officers said they want to facilitate love and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community on Notre Dame’s

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Church leaders deliver lectures on preferential option for the poor

Mary Steurer | Monday, March 25, 2019

Catholic leaders Cardinal Charles Maung Bo and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez urged the Church for a greater devotion to the poor in the Center for Social Concerns’ 2019 Catholic Social Tradition conference, titled “Engaging Social Tradition: Option for the Poor.” The seminar, which took place from Thursday to Saturday, hosted a number of presentations, lectures and

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A fuller picture of pro-life

Diversity Council | Tuesday, November 13, 2018

“I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.” – Audre Lorde, 1983 Yesterday, I had the opportunity

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Envisioning a just wage economy

Daniel Graff | Monday, November 5, 2018

Economic inequality should be considered the most pressing issue of our time, but unfortunately two generations of politicians and policymakers have failed to confront it, in marked contrast to Americans of the New Deal era (the subjects of my two prior columns). At all levels, from individual households to titanic corporations, problems of pay demand

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Professor discusses nuances of autism

Mary Steurer | Thursday, March 22, 2018

Professor Michael Waddell, director of the master of autism studies program at Saint Mary’s, called for a more complete understanding of autistic identities — acknowledging both the struggles and gifts of individuals with autism — during a presentation Wednesday. In the lecture, Waddell read from his personal work exploring autism in relation to the Catholic

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