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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
Gina Twardosz | Friday, January 26, 2018
Saint Mary’s will host “Building an Interreligious Community,” an interfaith conference on Feb. 2 and 3 in Rice Commons that will allow students, faculty and staff to engage in peaceful religious dialogue. Sophomore Sophia McDevitt said the goal of the conference is to produce citizens who are better informed about religion. “It’s through an organization
Sara Schlecht and Julianna McKenna | Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Saint Mary’s joined the United Religious Community to host an Interreligious Conference, which marks the beginning of Saint Mary’s involvement in the Interreligious Student Community. The United Religious Community (URC) is “a collaboration of a wide range of local congregations and religious communities,” religious studies professor Anita Houck said in an email. Within the URC
Gina Twardosz | Friday, November 3, 2017
Saint Mary’s held a Belles of Different Faiths panel Thursday, during which five students discussed their faiths, practices and some of the misconceptions behind their religions. Sophomore Iman Omar, senior Colleen Zewe, senior Taylor Thomas, sophomore Emily Barr and sophomore Abbee LaPlace were on the panel. Editor’s note: Omar and Zewe are News Writers for