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 and Peace reminds us in […]

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 the history of Black History […]

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 of the pro-life movement as […]

“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 Myler, the editor-in-chief of the […]

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 the subject. We ask your […]

Biden Debases Laetare Medal As Students Bolster Notre Dame’s Catholic Identity

Following our last bulletin about an Irish Rover investigative report, we write today principally about Notre Dame’s Catholic student organizations, but the recent feticidal outburst by Notre Dame honoree President Joe Biden claims priority of place. President Biden, the debasing of the Laetare Medal, and a lucky break for Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal […]

Notre Dame’s Non-Heteronormative Welcome Week

In our last two bulletins, we cited the University’s embrace of Pride Month and the Notre Dame Alumni Association’s establishment of an official alumni LGBTQ “affinity group” as evidence of a cultural shift at the University from treatment of homosexuals with “respect and compassion,” which the Church demands, toward acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual sex, […]