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-19 posts tagged "Vatican"
Observer Staff Report | Friday, October 8, 2021
President Joe Biden nominated Joe Donnelly, who holds two degrees from Notre Dame, as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. Donnelly earned an undergraduate degree in political science in 1977 and graduated from the Notre Dame Law School four years later, in 1981. He served as Indiana’s senator from 2013 to 2019 and will now oversee
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
Mary Steurer | Thursday, November 14, 2019
Charles Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta and face of the Vatican’s fight against clerical sex abuse, spoke with members of the tri-campus community on the Church’s sexual abuse crisis Wednesday evening in the Dahnke Ballroom. The event was part of the 2019 ND Forum, “Rebuild My Church: Crisis and Response.” John Allen, Vatican reporter and editor
Observer Staff Report | Friday, June 14, 2019
University President Fr. John Jenkins and Cardinal Peter Turkson, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, cosponsored a Vatican-sponsored dialogue on energy transition from June 12-14, the University announced in a press release. The dialogue was titled “The Energy Transition and Care for Our Common Home.” On Friday, Pope Francis addressed
Jack Lyons | Friday, March 22, 2019
When describing relations between the Catholic Church in America and the Vatican, John L. Allen Jr. compared the climate to a game where two men take turns kicking each other until one of them gives up. “We are not actually engaged in a patient search for understanding,” he said in a lecture at Holy Cross
Observer Staff Report | Saturday, February 16, 2019
Notre Dame is rescinding former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s honorary degree, the administration announced in a statement Saturday. The decision comes in response to the results of the Vatican’s canonical trial, which defrocked McCarrick on Saturday after finding he had broken his vows as a priest by sexually abusing minors and adults. “The Vatican has announced
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, December 7, 2017
This month in Vatican City, Rome, I was honored to meet Pope Francis and hear him deliver a powerful, historic message. He spoke in the context of a conference on the challenge of nuclear disarmament, with United Nations ambassadors, Nobel laureates, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) representatives and many other scholars and experts. Yes, in
Selena Ponio | Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Twelve Notre Dame students and recent alumni and five faculty members travelled to the Vatican to meet the pope and attend a conference on a topic that continues to dominate headlines: nuclear weapons. “This was probably the most public and high-level event on this issue since the end of the Cold War,” Gerard Powers, director
Katie Galioto | Wednesday, April 19, 2017
ROME — The alarm was set for 4 a.m. on Easter morning. Juniors Annie Richelsen, Elizabeth Crimmins and Derek Meyer — all studying abroad in Dublin for the semester — got up, got dressed and began the trek to St. Peter’s Square with a couple other students from the Ireland brigade. The group arrived at the Vatican
Letter to the Editor | Friday, March 3, 2017
We all want what we can’t have. If we have brown hair, we want to be blond. If we’re good at math, we wish we could write better. If we’re Lutheran, we wish we were Catholic. At least when Communion rolls around. We recite the words along with everyone else but halfheartedly, because we know