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 identity because of the vaccines’ […]
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 Sex Marriage (Cont.) A new […]
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 that Letter below and invite […]
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 said so far. Two weeks […]
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 Biden’s metamorphosis, describe how his […]
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 these lines together with a […]
Notre Dame Day 2020
Vote for Catholic Identity In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — begins Monday, October 26 at 6:42 pm ET. But there’s no need to wait for the broadcast to make your donation. The site is open now and closes a little after midnight Tuesday, October 27. Be as generous as you […]
Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Lou Holtz, Amy Barrett, and Father Jenkins
In this bulletin we report on recent developments bearing on the appointment of Pete Buttigeig to the Notre Dame faculty; the reproof by Fr. Jenkins of Lou Holtz for his criticism of Joe Biden; voter education on campus; and a divided Notre Dame faculty on the Barrett nomination. And we propose again for your signature […]
Thanksgiving for Barrett’s Nomination
Bearing Faithful Witness Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 […]
Father Jenkins, Lou Holtz, & Joe Biden
Strange Happenings in Father Jenkins’s Office There have been strange and revelatory happenings in the President’s Office at Notre Dame during the political conventions just ended. Pete Buttigeig First, as we noted in our last bulletin, during the Democratic convention Pete Buttigeig, a newly appointed Notre Dame Faculty Fellow, pressed the case for Joe Biden and […]
