Inclusivity at Notre Dame

by W. Joseph DeReuil

If the university meets the next generation of students at the door with the contradictions and false premises of woke “inclusivity,” how will they learn to pursue goodness and truth? Continue Reading »

23 Nov 2021

Mayor Pete at Notre Dame

by Wilson D. Miscamble

Pete Buttigieg’s appointment at Notre Dame illustrates that the university’s leadership has embraced a defective understanding of Notre Dame’s Catholic mission. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2020

God, Country, Notre Dame

by Charles J. Chaput

Father Wilson Miscamble’s biography American Priest captures the complicated genius of Father Ted Hesburgh.  Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2019

Notre Dame Students Against Porn

by Jim Martinson

Despite student wishes, Notre Dame has refused to implement an anti-porn Wi-Fi filter.  Continue Reading »

16 May 2019

Ever Devotedly in Notre Dame

by Michael J. Baxter

American Priest should be commended for inciting conflict concerning a host of important questions. Continue Reading »

10 May 2019

His Excellency

by Paul V. Mankowski

American Priest:  The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh by wilson d. miscamble, c.s.c.  image, 464 pages, $28 In 2008, Father Theodore ­Hesburgh (1917–2015) gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he said, “I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

The March for Life in Year 44

by Charles J. Chaput

Forty-four years after Roe, a reverence for the sanctity of human life still burns in the spirit of far too many people to ignore. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2017

Notre Dame’s Deal with the Devil

by William Dempsey

Tim Kaine is a Harvard Law graduate, but he and other pro-choice Catholic politicians owe much to Notre Dame. As Matthew Franck has observed in First Things, Mario Cuomo’s 1984 “personally opposed but won’t impose” speech at the university was a “watershed moment” for pro-choice . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2016

Weak Goals at Notre Dame

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Following on from my article about the Curriculum Review at the University of Notre Dame, I can report that the draft recommendations of the Curriculum Committee call for the retention of the current two theology course requirements. It recommends adding a core course called “Catholicism . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2015

Notre Dame's Core Curriculum Review

by Bianca Czaderna

Much has already been written on the University of Notre Dame’s current core curriculum review—and on its toying with the idea of dropping the two undergraduate theology requirements. The question has been addressed from a number of angles: Margaret Blume, a doctoral student in theology at ND, . . . . Continue Reading »

9 May 2015