Hide and Seek
SOUTH BEND, IN — This bulletin is an important preface to a coming bulletin in which we will review comprehensively the weakening of the Catholic presence on the faculty so radical that, as we have shown before, the school no longer meets its own test of Catholic identity. Here, our principal subject is the damaging and […]
Missing The Point
SOUTH BEND, IN — In a recent Irish Rover article, Father Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C., professor of history at Notre Dame, former chairman of the department, and president of Notre Dame Faculty for Life, describes why “there is good reason to believe” that the Chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, Richard C. Notebaert, “is ill-suited […]
Identity Crisis
SOUTH BEND, IN —In this bulletin we describe, among other happenings, the University’s role in the distribution of pornography to students. First, however, we offer some introductory comments about the disparate messages sent by various of the University’s actions. Notre Dame is beset by an identity crisis, neither truly Catholic nor fully secular. It fails […]
Carter Snead to Lead The Center for Ethics & Culture
SOUTH BEND, IN — We are very pleased to bring to you the news just released by the University that the successor to Dr. David Solomon as Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture will be Professor O. Carter Snead of the Notre Dame Law School. We have had our say about the dark […]
He Thought I Meant What?
SOUTH BEND, IN — In this bulletin we discuss two events: The first is Notre Dame’s protest of the government’s proposed regulation that would require the University to provide contraception and sterilization coverage in its employee health insurance policies. While Notre Dame’s move is laudable, in important respects Fr. Jenkins’s statement is not. The second […]
How Else Can You See It?
SOUTH BEND, IN — In the recent bulletin in which we disclosed the departure from the Notre Dame Board of Trustees of a prominent proponent of embryonic stem cell research (hereafter “ESCR”), Dr. Marye Anne Fox, we said we would examine the University’s record respecting this research in a future bulletin. That is what we […]
RALLY SONS OF NOTRE DAME
David Solomon and Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C at the March for Life in Washington DC. SOUTH BEND, IN — With this bulletin we provide to you “Saving Notre Dame’s Soul,” an extraordinary interview of Father Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C. by Kathyn Lopez of the National Catholic Register. Father Miscamble, a former rector of Moreau Seminary and Chair […]
AS IF NO ONE WOULD NOTICE
SOUTH BEND, IN —We are pleased to report that there has been another departure from the Notre Dame Board of Trustees that is even more significant than the recent resignation of Roxanne Martino, a supporter of pro-abortion organizations whose inexplicable appointment and speedy resignation we have chronicled in recent (see Beating Around the Bush, Just […]
Beating Around The Bush
In this bulletin, we describe the misdirection employed by top leaders of the University in their effort to salvage the appointment to the board of trustees of a long-time supporter of pro-abortion organizations and what this sorry episode means in the struggle for the soul of the University. SOUTH BEND, IN —While the resignation of […]
Whats our Story Today?
We have now studied the Agreement that ended the ND88 criminal prosecutions. Together with the preceding events, it tells an instructive story that we recount in this bulletin. SOUTH BEND, IN — The obvious question is why the University reversed course after two years of supporting the prosecutions. The University seems to suggest that it […]
