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Vatican Museums director Barbara Jatta addresses University community in annual Keely Vatican Lecture

Luciana Thomas | Thursday, April 29, 2021

The University’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies hosted its yearly Keely Vatican Lecture on Wednesday. Director of the Vatican Museums Barbara Jatta spoke at the event in a talk titled “The Vatican Museums: Future Perspectives.” Jatta’s lecture covered the newly restored artworks of Renaissance painter Raphael and the management of the Vatican Museums during the pandemic.

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Jenkins announces theme for 2021-2022 Notre Dame Forum

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, April 22, 2021

The theme for the 2021-2022 Notre Dame Forum will be “Care for Our Common Home: Just Transition to a Sustainable Future,” University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in an email Thursday. Jenkins said the purpose of the annual forum, which started in 2005, is to bring in multiple perspectives to talk about a topic important

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The power of community at Notre Dame

Clark Bowden | Thursday, March 18, 2021

After the University made the controversial decision to remove the Zahm community from campus, I have heard a lot regarding community, family and support. People in Zahm House, their alumni and many people within the greater Notre Dame community are outraged by the University’s actions. There have been petitions, on campus protests and Zahm residents

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What we can learn from Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq

Vince Mallett | Friday, March 12, 2021

Last week, Pope Francis became the first Catholic pope to visit Iraq. Throughout his visit, he gave a series of remarks that repeatedly emphasized one theme: peaceful fraternity between different religious groups. The Pope pulled no punches and made no equivocations about the absolute need for peace in the search for justice, remarking in his

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Concerns raised over United States Conference of Catholic Bishops partisanship sparks calls for Vatican investigation

Maria Luisa Paul | Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Sixty years after President John F. Kennedy said to an audience of skeptical Protestant ministers that he was “the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic,” President Joseph R. Biden has become the second Catholic to lead the nation. His presidency comes at a time marked by increased polarization of politics

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‘There is not anything illicit about it’: Community reflects on pope’s support for same-sex civil unions

Gabrielle Penna | Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Pope Francis was featured in the documentary “Francesco” at the Rome Film Festival on Oct. 21. Interviews included in this documentary addressed issues of poverty, migration, racial equality and environmental sustainability. In addition to addressing these issues, the pope vocalized support for same-sex civil unions, becoming the first pontiff to do so. “Homosexual people have

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Same-sex civil unions and my radical hope

Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 23, 2020

In her virtual Hesburgh Lecture at Notre Dame two weeks ago, Dr. Angela Davis asked the question: “How can we educate ourselves so we have the capacity to think beyond what exists in the present?” Dr. Davis suggests that this radical hope for what is possible in the future is what grounds us in the

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Saint Mary’s to offer new program for ’Laudato Si’ anniversary

Olivia Traxler | Tuesday, September 15, 2020

In light of Pope Francis’s announcement of the special anniversary celebration of the ‘Laudato Si,’ the Center for Spirituality of Saint Mary’s College is sponsoring a new study-faith-in-action program. The program consists of one to two environmentally-related service projects or immersion experiences, one lecture related to ‘Laudato Si’ and one to two prayer experiences related

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University professor appointed to pontifical commission by Pope Francis

Isabella Volmert | Tuesday, March 3, 2020

In 2017, theology professor Gabriel Reynolds was one of 15 academics who was invited to work with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) in preparation for Pope Francis’s historic visit to Cairo, Egypt. Now, three years later, Reynolds has been officially invited by Francis and head of the PCID, Cardinal Miguel Ayuso, to serve

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An excellent apostolic exhortation

Brennan Buhr | Monday, February 17, 2020

Just a few months ago, I became concerned that Pope Francis was slowly embracing a new vision of the Church that is beholden to liberal German wealth and does not submit itself to the abiding witness of the Holy Spirit. The recent Amazon synod seemed to have all the markings of a subterfuge whereby liberal-minded

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