The Pope vs. The Professors
NOTRE DAME, IN – The Pope celebrates Catholic identity; Notre Dame’s Mission Statement requires it; the Notre Dame Faculty Senate sidelines it. “The University should not compromise its academic aspirations in its efforts to maintain its Catholic identity.” Notre Dame Faculty Senate, April 9, 2008 On April 17, 2008, the Pope, in his address to […]
Would ND welcome a Professor Ratzinger on its faculty?
NOTRE DAME, IN – As Notre Dame reflects on its heritage in anticipation of the Pope’s comments on Catholic higher education, could it be that the students are the most Catholic part of the University left. In a Wall Street Journal feature opinion essay titled “The Weekend Interview: Rev. John I. Jenkins, Catholicism, Inc., deputy […]
V-Monologues Despoil Easter Week
NOTRE DAME, IN – Bishop D’Arcy denounces Father Jenkins’s decision to permit the Vagina Monologues Easter week. It is with profound regret that we report that Father Jenkins, having authorized multiple student performances of The Vagina Monologues, has also permitted those performances to take place during Easter Week. They are to be held on each […]
Vagina Monologues 2, Bishops 0
NOTRE DAME, IN – Father Jenkins disappoints again. The Vagina Monologues will, after all, be performed on campus later this month. We recently reported that some 50 bishops had moved their conference off campus because the play might be produced. Father Jenkins has now decided it will be. He says this “best serves the distinctive” […]
Decision Pending as Project Sycamore Petitions Father Jenkins
NOTRE DAME, IN – Project Sycamore sends petition with 940 alumni signatures to Fr. Jenkins. In this bulletin we reproduce the letter we have sent to Father Jenkins respecting The Vagina Monologues, and we also provide additional information respecting both the current state of affairs and the recent episode involving the bishops that was the subject of […]
Bishops Shun Notre Dame
NOTRE DAME, IN – Vagina Monologues in, bishops out, parents in the dark. Last year’s respite from on-campus performances of The Vagina Monologues has evidently ended. The play has departmental sponsorship and is slated for performance on March 24-26. In an even more startling development, Father Jenkins has refused the request of the U.S. Bishops’ […]
University Declines to Release Hiring Results
NOTRE DAME, IN – New faculty hiring policy undermines Catholic identity as University declines to release hiring results. We deeply regret bringing you news of a new hiring policy that, unless changed, will soon fatally compromise Notre Dame’s Catholic identity. Here are the facts: As we have stressed, all studies confirm that a university’s religious […]
Who Cares if Non-Catholics Predominate on Notre Dame’s Faculty?
We bring you a trilogy of articles that should be required reading for all members of the Notre Dame family. In these articles, two of the University’s leading scholars exchange contrasting views respecting the question whether Notre Dame’s Catholic identity is threatened because of the precipitous decline in the proportion of Catholics on the faculty. […]
Faculty Site Promotes Material Hostile Catholic Character
NOTRE DAME, IN – Faculty group website recommends pro-abortion organizations, urges more lesbian and homosexual faculty, and provides other noteworthy insights. An organization of women faculty at Notre Dame called ND Watch has a website that, while providing useful information for new women faculty members, also contains material hostile to the Catholic character of the University. We […]
Must Read Article by Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C.
NOTRE DAME, IN – Prominent Notre Dame professor publishes “must read” article on University’s secularization. In the September 10, 2007, issue of “America,” Father Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., describes in compelling detail the extent to which the Notre Dame faculty has been secularized. “America” deserves praise for publishing, and Father Miscamble for writing, this courageous […]
