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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
Emily McConville | Friday, April 1, 2016
ROME — Though Easter Mass with Pope Francis didn’t start until 10:15 a.m., dozens were already lined up Sunday outside Vatican City at 6:30 a.m, determined to get some of the limited seats near the front of St. Peter’s Square. About 130 of these people, according to Campus Ministry, were Notre Dame students and their
Jack Rooney | Thursday, April 9, 2015
DUBLIN — As the clouds parted and the rain stopped in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican last Sunday morning, more than 100 Notre Dame students were on hand to celebrate Easter Sunday Mass, led by Pope Francis. The Mass, part of a pilgrimage organized by Notre Dame Campus Ministry, brought together juniors currently studying abroad
Jack Rooney | Thursday, March 5, 2015
DUBLIN — When news of University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore “Ted” Hesburgh’s death broke shortly after 1:00 a.m. Friday, hundreds of students had a uniquely Notre Dame instinct: go to the Grotto, light a candle and pray. For hundreds of other students studying in one of Notre Dame’s over 30 study abroad programs, the warm