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-42 posts tagged "religion"
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,
Brennan Buhr | Monday, September 16, 2019
St. Ignatius of Antioch, martyred for his faith in the second century, remains one of the most compelling witnesses to the truth of Christ in Church history. Although very few biographical details are known about this great saint, Ignatius wrote a series of letters to various local churches in the eastern Mediterranean region describing the
Genevieve Redsten | Thursday, April 25, 2019
Members of different faith communities gathered for Mass on Wednesday evening in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart to remember the victims of the Sri Lanka Easter bombing attacks and their families. University President Fr. John Jenkins presided. The bombings, which killed over 350 people, targeted Christians celebrating Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. The attacks
Aaron Benavides | Monday, March 25, 2019
Notre Dame’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) kicked off their annual Islam Awareness Week for 2019 last Saturday. The week is designed to share aspects of the Islamic faith with students across campus, sophomore and MSA president Muhammad Abubakar Mian said. “The main purpose of Islam Awareness Week is really just exposure,” Mian said. “It’s providing
Mary Clare Donnelly | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Notre Dame Forum’s first lecture of the year, titled “The Catholic Artistic Heritage: Bringing Forth Treasures New and Old,” featured Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson. In a discussion moderated by English professor Susannah Monta, Robinson spoke on themes such as religion and beauty in her novels and how these themes immerse themselves in contemporary society and culture.
Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In 2014, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier took us to church. Now, four years later, he continues to preach his gospel of soul with his newest EP, “Nina Cried Power.” The title of the EP is a reference to the singer, Civil Rights activist and high priestess of soul, Nina Simone. The four-song EP evokes the sentimentality
Andrew Rebholz | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Heinrich was a little disheartened when he approached those pearly gates, because he’d spent the entirety of his life making fun of such silly notions. “Son of a—” Suddenly all those jokes at his mother’s pious colloquialisms had come back to bite him in the buns. But then, he quickly came to a fun idea.
Maria Leontaras and Kelly Burke | Tuesday, September 4, 2018
This semester, students at Saint Mary’s College will be able to join a new club called Better Together. The club is focused on promoting interfaith dialogue throughout campus. Sophomore Jackie Rojas, the secretary of Better Together, said the goal of this club is to demonstrate how people with different perspectives and religious traditions can work
Gina Twardosz | Monday, August 27, 2018
Saint Mary’s students will have the opportunity to travel by bus to New York City on Sept. 22 to see The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition, a display of fashion and medieval art. The exhibition aims to examine the effects of fashion on Catholicism over time, the Metropolitan