Statement of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades
[bctt tweet=”Bishop Rhoades rejects Notre Dame president Fr. Jenkins’s claim that his decision to have Notre Dame provide contraceptives to students and employees is “based on Catholic principles.”” username=”sycamoretrust”] Regarding the Notre Dame Decision on Contraceptive Coverage “I strongly support the decision of the University of Notre Dame to stop the government-funded provision, through its […]
Faculty For Life Open Letter to Fr. John Jenkins
[bctt tweet=”Notre Dame Faculty For Life expresses shock at the decision of the school’s president to continue the University’s involvement in the distribution of abortifacients and contraceptives when it no longer has to.” username=”sycamoretrust”] We reproduce below an important letter from the Executive Board of the Notre Dame Chapter of University Faculty for Life published […]
Just Who Do They Think They’re Fooling?
[bctt tweet=”Notre Dame’s president has led in putting contraceptives and abortificients in hands of its employees and students. He now plans to lead its delegation in the annual March for Life.” username=”sycamoretrust”] Just as Notre Dame’s response to the Obamacare abortifcient/contraceptive mandate began with misrepresentations to the courts, as we recounted in our last bulletin, […]
Students’ Open Letter to Notre Dame’s Administration
[bctt tweet=”Notre Dame students want their school to explain why it is doing precisely what it told the courts would violate its conscience and give scandal to them” username=”sycamoretrust”] While some Notre Dame students are calling for the removal of 12 iconic murals of Christopher Columbus that have been on campus since 1884, others are […]
Sorin’s Bold Vision & the Future of Notre Dame
[bctt tweet=”It is worth asking if the university Edward Sorin founded has been turned into a place where its denizens are immunized against hearing the true Gospel message (Fr. Bill Miscamble, C.S.C.)” username=”sycamoretrust”] By Fr. Bill Miscamble C.S.C. Father Edward Sorin has been the subject of renewed attention during this year celebrating the 175th anniversary […]
Alumni Lawyers to Fr. Jenkins
AN OPEN LETTER TO FATHER JENKINS FROM NOTRE DAME ALUMNI ATTORNEYS Dear Father Jenkins: We write as attorneys and Notre Dame alumni out of deep concern over what appears to be abuse by the University of the judicial process in its legal challenge to the Obamacare abortifacient/contraceptive mandate. This is a serious matter, and we do […]
Serpentine! Serpentine!
Under the pressure of public scrutiny, Notre Dame has backed off facilitating surgical abortion though its employee FSA. But so far they have held their ground with cut-rate sterilization, abortifacients, contraceptives. NOTRE DAME, IN — In the wake of our bulletin of yesterday disclosing that the university has made expenses for abortion, sterilization, abortifacients, and contraceptives […]
Notre Dame’s Conscience du Jour
In a stunning move, Notre Dame has just taken back the claim it made through years of litigation, in protest of the Obamacare mandate, that it couldn’t in conscience consent to the provision of abortifacients and contraceptives to its employees by its health plan administrator. That is now precisely what it is going to do. NOTRE […]
A (Mostly) Fine Commencement
Some 100-150 members of the class of 2017 “respectfully” walk out on Vice President Pence’s commencement address in an officially sanctioned demonstration. NOTRE DAME, IN — Except for a few minutes of university-sanctioned agitation by a handful of discomposed students, the 2017 Notre Dame commencement was a fine affair. As the sun broke through the threatening […]
It Depends on What They Mean by “Small”
With yet another tuition increase far exceeding inflation, the cost of a Notre Dame education balloons to nearly $70,000 next school year. NOTRE DAME, IN — In a February 17 press release, the university announced a tuition increase for next year: [box border=”full”]Undergraduate tuition and fees at the University of Notre Dame will increase 3.7 percent […]
