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‘Satan was able to destroy a wonderful organization’: Right to Life is without president, faces internal turmoil

Isa Sheikh | Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Members of the University’s largest student group, Notre Dame Right to Life, received a series of two letters dated April 2, 2023, addressing turmoil and turnover in the club’s ranks. The correspondence capped a constitutional debate that lasted for weeks within the anti-abortion group, and an even longer period of interpersonal strife in the club’s

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Notre Dame Right to Life Club hosts annual ‘You Are Loved’ week

Reyna Lim | Monday, April 11, 2022

The Notre Dame Right to Life Club hosted its annual “You Are Loved” (YAL) Week last week. The week is hosted every spring by the club with the intention of bringing in new members and advocating against abortion. “Our commitments are to protect and uphold the sanctity of all life, and most importantly, to remind

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Community members organize to protest attorney general’s visit to Notre Dame

Mary Steurer | Monday, October 14, 2019

Dozens gathered at the intersection of Eddy Street and Angela Road to protest Attorney General William Barr’s visit to Notre Dame on Friday. The protest, which took place from 4 to 5 p.m., was organized by graduate student Andrew Cary and local activist groups MoveOn North Central Indiana, Indivisible Indiana and Northern Indiana Atheists. At

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Attorney General William Barr to speak on religious freedom at Notre Dame Law School

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, October 10, 2019

This report was updated at 5:11 p.m. U.S. Attorney General William Barr will deliver a closed lecture to the Notre Dame Law School and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at 4 p.m. Friday in the McCartan Courtroom. Barr will discuss “religious freedom,” University spokesperson Dennis Brown told the South Bend Tribune. The U.S.

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University awards 2020 Evangelium Vitae Award

Observer Staff Report | Monday, October 7, 2019

Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture announced in a Sunday news release it will award the 2020 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae medal to Vicki Thorn. Thorn founded Project Rachel, a post-abortion care program, and is currently executive director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing, the release said. “Vicki Thorn’s

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Sorin Fellows program aims to aid in student formation

Sophia Lauber | Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Since its founding by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (dCEC) in 2014, the Sorin Fellows Program has expanded programming and grown in size. The program, established in conjunction with the bicentennial anniversary of Fr. Sorin’s birth, was created as a student formation program within the dCEC and shares the center’s dedication to