Call for Unity and Justice
A few days ago on June 1, several hundred members of the Notre Dame community gathered on campus in prayerful reflection on the death of George Floyd while in police custody and on similar past episodes. Father Pete McCormick, C.S.C., the Director of Campus Ministry, presided, and Father Jenkins was the principal speaker. You can watch […]
COVID-19 Turnabout
Several weeks ago, there was a burst of publicity when a number of wealthy universities declared they wouldn’t apply for federal grants to help them defray the expenses of students caused by school closings. When Notre Dame declined to join them, Bill Dempsey wrote Father Jenkins expressing Sycamore Trust’s disappointment and observed: [quote]I am frank […]
Gender Studies Program on the Loose
Gender Studies Program on the Loose With regret, we follow our recent sunny report about the law school with an uncommonly discouraging report about the Gender Studies Program (“GSP”) and the administration. The episode we describe below centers on a recent panel presentation sponsored by GSP that was emphatically hostile to the Church’s teaching on […]
Easter Message
An Easter Like None Other!!! by Father John Raphael, ’89 I believe that it is fair to say — an understatement even — that this year’s was truly a Holy Week Like None Other! But the fact of the matter is, for our Jewish brothers and sisters, it was a Passover Like None Other!And for […]
Remembering Joe Reich, ’57
Joe Reich, ’57, a founding board member of Sycamore Trust, our long-serving Vice President, and good friend to many, has died, and we want to say a few words in tribute and gratitude about this fine man and loyal son of Notre Dame. After graduation from Notre Dame and service as a Naval officer, Joe […]
Good News at the Law School
As Sycamore Trust has often observed, the Notre Dame Law School, with a much stronger Catholic faculty presence than the University’s other schools, is both the most Catholic and one of the best law schools in the country. We are pleased to report that its excellence in both respects is mirrored in the appointment of […]
Diversity Disruption
Our recent reports have described a growing number of actions and events that are hostile to Church teaching on sex and gender. In this respect, the University is rapidly coming to embrace one of the most corrupting features of almost all of the rest of academia. This development has its roots in the elevation of “diversity” to a pre-eminent goal […]
Woke Dorms?
In our last bulletin we reported that one of the goals of Student Government’s new Director of Gender Relations is “PARIETALS ‘reform’ (REMOVAL).” Within a few days, some 30 students conducted a sit-in in a men’s dormitory between 2 and 5 a.m. in support of that demand until they finally left under threat of expulsion. For […]
Diversity & Tolerance — Of What?
Notre Dame’s student government led off the new school year by handing all students free subscriptions to the New York Times (and no other newspaper) and bringing on a director of gender relations with a history of hostility toward Catholic teaching. We describe these decisions below and examine other recent actions in Notre Dame’s gender relations […]
BULLIES 3, NOTRE DAME 0
The bewildering silence of the priest-president of Notre Dame in the face of a malignant and incendiary assault in word and image by Notre Dame students on fellow students and others for upholding Church teaching on homosexual sex and gender continues to draw fire. Laura Ingraham opened her recent TV interview of Bill Dempsey with […]
