Academic Freedom Run Amok
The pro-choice student organization Irish 4 Reproductive Health (“Irish 4”) is hosting a talk this evening on campus by the noted pro-abortion advocate Katherine Watson. The event has no Notre Dame sponsor. Irish 4 is an unrecognized student group that is suing Notre Dame to require it to provide free abortifacients to students and employees […]
Evangelizing Students
The SEEK conference that Mackenzie Kraker describes in the article below, which we reprint with permission from The Irish Rover, was sponsored by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), a remarkable organization dedicated to Catholic evangelization on college campuses by trained and dedicated young Catholic graduates. Its missionaries now serve at some 170 campuses, […]
“Obstinate Misdiagnosis”
The soul of the Catholic Church is being pierced, day after day, by a seemingly endless scandal of sexual abuse. And it must be hoped that, as many secret thoughts—and temptations, and, worst of all, actions—are being revealed, this piercing is an unavoidable and necessary part of a great process of purification: the purification that […]
Student Leaders to Father Jenkins
Notre Dame student body leaders entreat President Jenkins to rescind ex-Cardinal McCarrick’s honorary degree before he is compelled to act by a Vatican decision.
Cover Columbus! Show Porn!
Father Jenkins has just decided to cover up the Main Building murals celebrating Christopher Columbus bringing Christianity to the New World because they are offensive to Native Americans while he remains silent on the students’ petition for a filter to stem the torrent of pornography the University funnels to students 24/7 through its Internet service.
Notre Dame, Pornography Middleman
[quote]God’s given us the choice of whether we’re going to be sinners or not, you know! (Paul Browne, Vice President Communications, explaining why Notre Dame doesn’t filter Internet pornography it transmits to students.)[/quote] We reproduce below a moderately shortened letter from some 90 “Men of Notre Dame” presenting their petition to the University to install […]
Good Cop, Bad Cop
[bctt tweet=”Where are the Fighting Irish when the Church needs them? @NotreDame has yet to take a swing at the gross misrepresentations in the PA Grand Jury Report. #GoCatholicND” username=”sycamoretruts”] The Pennsylvania grand jury report that has reignited the clerical sexual abuse issue with a vengeance is just the beginning. So far, thirteen additional states have […]
Millstone II Alumni Analysis
Late Saturday night in American time zones, two English-language websites published the 11- page “testimony” of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016. The testimony is an unprecedented indictment of senior Church officials for conspiring to enable the now-disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, to […]
Conveniently Blind
[bctt tweet=”Blind to moral consequences, #NotreDame will operationalize Fr. Jenkins’s contraceptive culture through its wellness center. #GoCatholicND” username=”sycamoretrust”] The university has now disclosed the unsettling details of its contraception program. Coverage will include drugs that cause abortions; they will be prescribed and provided through the campus wellness center; and abortifacients will be provided free for […]
Notre Dame’s Faculty Misadventure Chapter II
Great Catholic colleges and universities have to be great on their own terms, not by the standards of those who do not understand the rationale, purpose, and mission of Catholic higher education. Dr. Christian Smith William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology, Notre Dame NOTRE DAME, IN — In our last bulletin we showed that Notre […]
