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Notre Dame’s First-Year Sex Ed

Today we bring you deeply disturbing portions of a video about the University’s diversity policy that was shown to this year’s first-year students and that radically undermines the Church’s teaching on sex and gender. It speaks for itself, so we will add but a few introductory comments. The video is

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A Notre Dame Racial Justice Misfire

A Failure to “Foster Social Cohesion” Racism is a grave sin, and the roiling controversy over its persistence in the country’s institutions and in the hearts and minds of its citizens is a grievous wound to the nation’s sense of community – a wound that, the Pontifical Council for Justice

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NDDay 2022

Vote for Catholic Identity In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — is underway with early giving and will end at midnight, Monday, April 25, 2022. This is an opportunity for members of the Notre Dame community and others who value the school’s formative mission to get

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Easter Message 2022

by Father John Raphael, ’89 Though we celebrate the Easter Mystery every year, each year it has deeper meaning for us, as each year we draw closer to that moment when we will stand before the Risen Lord in all his splendor. It seems to me, however, that there is

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Besmirching Black History Month with Critical Race Theory

We defer our planned follow-up to our last bulletin on Notre Dame’s “Day for Life” to tell you how the administration, in the course of purportedly celebrating Black History Month, has instead sullied it by embracing Critical Race Theory. Before describing the particulars of the administration’s action, we relate briefly

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Notre Dame Day for Life

Although Notre Dame cancelled the student trip to Washington only nine days before this year’s January 21 March for Life in Washington, D.C., the Notre Dame Right to Life students succeeded in organizing a successful parallel event on campus. Both the national and the campus events testified to the vitality

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“War Over Woke Catholicism”at Notre Dame

With the permission of National Review (copyright reserved), we reproduce below the recently published article “Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism” by Alexandra DeSanctis (ND ’16) and Carl R. Trueman. The article is an especially compelling analysis of the controversy triggered by the editorial by Mary Frances

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The Irish Rover Barks!

“How is it that a Notre Dame undergraduate understands this, but Father John Jenkins, the university’s president, does not.” (Rod Dreher) This bulletin is devoted to describing just what it is that a Notre Dame undergraduate understands but Father Jenkins does not. The bulletin’s unusual length reflects the importance of

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