ND Right to Life Marches Again
Notre Dame students’ participation at the annual March for Life and their receipt of the Thomas King Award at Georgetown University’s Cardinal O’Connor Conference highlight their commitment to the pro-life cause, despite Father Jenkins’ notable absence for the third consecutive year and controversial honors to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
GO, IRISH Rover!
On Monday, the Notre Dame student publication The Irish Rover was vindicated and Notre Dame professor Tamara Kay was routed when Indiana Supreme Court Senior Judge Steven H. David categorically rejected each and every allegation by Kay of defamation by the Rover in its reports on Kay’s pervasive pro-abortion actions.
Notre Dame Professor Sues Student Paper
Notre Dame’s Keough School Professor Tamara Kay sues independent student newspaper The Irish Rover for defamation.
Bishop Rhodes
Academic freedom, cancel culture, and the proper ends of higher education have been much in the news lately. Recently, a video of law students at Stanford University shouting vulgar epithets at a sitting federal judge and refusing to let him speak (with the acquiescence, perhaps even approval of one of the law school’s associate deans) […]
Notre Dame Day 2023
Stand with those students who stand up for Notre Dame’s Catholic identity by supporting their organizations during Notre Dame Day now through April 26. They need our help. And we need theirs. Notre Dame Day is an opportunity for members of the Notre Dame community and others who value the school’s formative mission to get behind the […]
NDDay 2022
Vote for Catholic Identity In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — is underway with early giving and will end at midnight, Monday, April 25, 2022. This is an opportunity for members of the Notre Dame community and others who value the school’s formative mission to get behind the student organizations that […]
Notre Dame Day 2021
Vote for Catholic Identity In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — is underway and ends just after midnight tomorrow, Monday, April 19, 2021. Please be as generous as you can. The students who fight daily for Notre Dame’s Catholic mission and their organizations need your help. Your gift to Notre Dame […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Hesburgh Phenomenon
The Hesburgh Phenomenon by William Dempsey (Reprinted with permission from The Catholic Thing, copyright reserved.) Saturday, April 27, 2019 In the pantheon of Notre Dame superheroes, these three abide: Father Edward Sorin, the founder; Knute Rockne, the mythmaker; and Father Ted Hesburgh, the builder, but the greatest of these is Hesburgh. During his thirty-five years […]