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 […]
Student Slander and Provocation Unchecked
In one of the most indefensible, and perhaps consequential, decisions of his tenure, Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins has declined to condemn, or even criticize, a vile and inflammatory assault via poster and video by a group of students on other students, alumni and faculty for upholding the Church’s teaching on homosexual sex. The […]
Father Hesburgh Redux
In our current bulletin, with the permission of Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute where it appeared initially, we reproduce an especially valuable review by Professors John M. Breen and Lee J. Strang of Father Wilson D. Miscamble’s biography of Father Theodore Hesburgh (“American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre […]
Mayor Pete at ND — “Friends in High Places”
Last March, Notre Dame gave the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association of Notre Dame (GALA) and its gay marriage agenda a boost by allowing GALA to honor Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg and to stage a panel supporting same-sex married teachers in Catholic high schools. We describe these events below and take a look at the […]
Lead Us [Not] Into Temptation
We regret to report that Father Jenkins has denied the student-initiated petition for a filter to curb the torrent of pornography it funnels to students via its Internet service. We reported on the genesis of this student movement in earlier bulletins: Notre Dame, Pornography Middleman and Cover Columbus! Show Porn!. Now, with the permission of […]
“American Priest” by Rev. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C.
With the permission of First Things (copyright reserved), we reproduce below an arresting review by Rev. Paul Mankowski, S.J., of the just-published biography by Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C., of Fr. Theodore Hesburg: American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh. As Mankowski observes, Miscamble, an award-winning historian, “brought to the task […]
The Clock Runs Out
With the imposition by the Vatican upon former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the most severe penalty that can be imposed on a cleric – dismissal from the clerical state — Notre Dame issued a terse statement announcing that McCarrick’s honorary degree has been rescinded: [quote]The Vatican has announced the conclusion of the adjudicatory process against […]
