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Lou Holtz and Our Lady on the Dome
Lou Holtz hated to lose at football. Texas A&M’s 35–10 victory over his Notre Dame team in the 1988 Cotton Bowl deeply discouraged him. His team’s 8–4 record was...
A Crisis of Catholic Fidelity at Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame does not have a problem outlining its ambition to be the world’s leading Catholic university, but it faces perennial problems in fulfilling this goal....
Mayor Pete at Notre Dame
In late June the University of Notre Dame announced that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend and sometime 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, had been named a 2020-21...
