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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender, and “Questioning” Alumni Given Their Own Official Notre Dame Alumni Group
We opened our last bulletin by observing that, ever since Father Jenkins scuttled long-standing University policy in 2012 by approving a student LGBTQ club, the risk has been that the aim of treating homosexuals with “respect, compassion and sensitivity,” as the Church enjoins, would morph into acceptance of same-sex marriage and
Notre Dame Embraces LGBTQ Pride Month
Ever since Father Jenkins scuttled long-standing University policy in 2012 by approving a student LGBTQ club, the risk has been that the aim of treating homosexuals with “respect, compassion and sensitivity,” as the Church enjoins, would morph into acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual sex, “acts of grave depravity,” as the Church teaches. That
President Biden Dodges President Jenkins
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden return to the White House from a weekend at Camp David in Washington, DC, USA, May 23, 2021 [Notre Dame’s Commencement Weekend] [Photo via Newscom] Most readers know that President Biden was not this year’s Notre Dame Commencement speaker, but many
Mid-Year Message 2021
This message from Bill Dempsey [su_highlight background=”#fffd9c”](click the image above)[/su_highlight] was taped just before Notre Dame’s Commencement and provides a brief mid-year report on Sycamore Trust with remarks about Father Jenkins’s invitation to President Biden to be commencement speaker, the university’s unprecedented decision to withhold from alumni information about Catholic representation
Notre Dame’s Student COVID Vaccination Mandate
The university is requiring all students, except those exempted for “documented” religious or medical reasons, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for attendance in the fall, while faculty, staff, and campus service employees remain free to choose for themselves. This requirement raises issues relating to Notre Dame’s Catholic
Notre Dame Day 2021
Vote for Catholic Identity In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — is underway and ends just after midnight tomorrow, Monday, April 19, 2021. Please be as generous as you can. The students who fight daily for Notre Dame’s Catholic mission and their organizations need your help.
Biden’s Hit Man, an Unexpected Laetare Awardee, & Zahm House Blues
The University has announced an unforeseeable selection for the Laetare Medal, thrown up its hands in its efforts to bring law and order to Zahm House, and remained silent as to the 2021 Commencement speaker as evidence of President Biden’s unsuitability continues to mount. Here are the details: Biden and Same
Easter Message 2021
Christ the Lord is Risen, Alleluia!He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia! by Father John Raphael, ’89 There are no more glorious, no more wondrous, no more powerful words than those of the Church’s great Easter acclamation, Christ the Lord is risen, Alleluia! This is because there is no more glorious, no
Biden, Abortion, and Notre Dame Commencement Redux
We open this bulletin with the first pro-abortion dividend of President Biden’s opposition to the Hyde Amendment and continue with some additional information we have just come across that bears upon our Open Letter to Father Jenkins urging him not to invite President Biden to be Commencement speaker. (We reproduce
The Equality Act, A Fourth Strike Against Biden
The House of Representatives has just endorsed an especially pernicious anti-religious freedom component of President Biden’s agenda, and accordingly we write you again about how ill-advised it would be to for Notre Dame to invite him to be Commencement speaker. Review Before describing this development, we review briefly what we’ve
The “First Anti-Catholic ‘Catholic’ President” and Notre Dame
The transmogrification of Joe Biden from a defender of Catholic Church teachings to our “first anti-Catholic ‘Catholic’ president,” in the words of Catholic author and commentator Dr. Robert Royal, spells big trouble for the Church, persons of conscience, and the innocent unborn and their defenders. In this Bulletin, we trace
Students Leftward Ho! and Jenkinsgate
We pick up where we left off before the holidays in chronicling events involving politics and public figures bearing on Notre Dame’s Catholic identity. In our last bulletin we described administration and faculty pro-Biden partisanship and faculty opposition to Judge Amy Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination. We now report more developments along
