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-51 posts tagged "Catholicism"
Brennan Buhr | Monday, November 18, 2019
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” It is quite ironic that this historically momentous yet philosophically preposterous proclamation was made by an American Catholic, the now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the 1992 Planned Parenthood
Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Saint Mary’s Better Together club hosted on Monday night “Craft Your Spiritual Journey,” an event designed to engage the campus community in interfaith dialogue through the accessibility of crafting and conversing with friends. Senior and Better Together club president Sophia McDevitt said the goal of the event was to open up interfaith dialogue to every
Brennan Buhr | Monday, September 30, 2019
Sophia Sheehy recently submitted a column that gratuitously lambasts the significance not only of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, but also of human artistic achievement more generally. I was disappointed that Sophia took this direction. Toward the beginning, the article was well-researched and argumentatively sound in discussing the tragedy of forest fires in the Amazon,
Maeve Filbin | Friday, September 20, 2019
In her novel, “The Ninth Hour,” award-winning author and professor Alice McDermott explores the Catholic faith through the lens of multiple generations of women, telling the story of a young widow, her daughter and the group of religious sisters who care for them. Before appearing at Thursday’s Christian Culture Lecture to discuss her written works,
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 18, 2019
My phone’s built-in news app proffered this piece by Ellie Gardey, an undergraduate student at Notre Dame, that was posted today. Gardey reports on current efforts by some students to reduce heteronormativity at Notre Dame. In case you haven’t seen that particular tongue twister before, Gardey has done us the favor of giving the Oxford
Mariah Rush | Monday, April 1, 2019
The Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s (GALA-ND/SMC) awarded their biannual LGBTQ Leadership Awards Saturday evening to South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Notre Dame law alumnus John Sullivan and Fr. James Martin. Since 1996, GALA — independent from the University and College — has awarded honors to members of the community
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 1, 2019
On Wednesday, the LGBT Law Forum at the law school hosted an event featuring Jim Obergefell, Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon, plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which mandated that every state recognize same-sex marriage. The talk was co-sponsored by student groups as well as the Mendoza College of Business. It is the
Letter to the Editor | Friday, March 29, 2019
Notre Dame is an unabashedly Catholic place, and I thank God for that. However, in my relatively short time here, I have observed many different interpretations of what that means, or what it’s supposed to mean. Undeniably, its Catholic identity makes Notre Dame different from other universities. And I’m forthright in my position that it’s
Gary Caruso | Friday, March 1, 2019
As a child, Easter was the second-grandest giveaway holiday that uniquely features sugary treats. From a child’s limited, but all-absorbing perspective, Easter is solely about finding eggs, chasing bunnies or brightly dyed chicks (fortunately, PETA has campaigned against this tradition) and counting jellybeans. But as time passes by, we grow to learn that the holiday burdens us
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 12, 2019
I read The Observer column titled “Catholicism at Notre Dame” with a sense of being challenged. I’m one of those weird people who thinks that Notre Dame, “Catholic Disneyland” as I’ve heard it called, is not Catholic enough. What could that mean, at a school with over a hundred Masses a week, a leading Theology