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Notre Dame’s Catholic duty

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

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A Catholic case for same-sex marriage

Letter to the Editor | Friday, September 16, 2016

In yesterday’s Tocqueville lecture, Archbishop Chaput spoke of the implications of religious liberty for the Church’s teachings on marriage and family. Putting aside the complicated question of religious liberty in America, I would pose a different question: Why does the Catholic Church choose to defend a limited interpretation of its teachings on marriage? The teachings

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Archbishop of Chicago reflects on Pope Francis’s teachings

Jack Rooney | Friday, March 7, 2014

Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, came to Notre Dame Thursday evening to lecture on mercy in the teaching and ministry of Pope Francis and how the Pope’s Argentinian origins inform his leadership in the Vatican. “The three themes or attitudes that surround his teaching on mercy and flesh it out are dialogue as encounter,