Promoting Catholic Intellectual Life

Year End Campaign This is the season when we invite those who value Notre Dame’s Catholic identity and our mission at Sycamore Trust to contribute financially to our work. In whatever way you are able to support our common purpose — by giving of your time (especially in prayer), talent, or treasure — we are […]

The Rover on Prof. Kay’s Abortion Campaign

Abortion Part II In our current bulletin we continue a series about abortion attitudes and advocacy at Notre Dame following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. For this second installment we reproduced The Irish Rover article about The Keough School Professor Tamara Kay’s activities that triggered a wave of media reports and received the following praise […]

Prof. Tamara Kay Offers Student Abortion Help

Abortion Part I In this bulletin, we begin a series about pro-abortion and pro-life developments at Notre Dame in the wake of the Supreme Court decision returning the abortion issue to the state legislative branches and the consequent Indiana legislation restricting abortion. Notre Dame’s “Abortions Rights Expert” at Keough We begin with a deeply disturbing pro-abortion […]

A Notre Dame Racial Justice Misfire

A Failure to “Foster Social Cohesion” Racism is a grave sin, and the roiling controversy over its persistence in the country’s institutions and in the hearts and minds of its citizens is a grievous wound to the nation’s sense of community – a wound that, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace reminds us in […]

“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 […]

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 […]

(Don’t Look Now)

You thought at least Notre Dame would draw the line at surgical abortion? Wrong. NOTRE DAME, IN — Last week we reported how Notre Dame has decided to do voluntarily precisely what it insisted to the courts repeatedly it could not do in good conscience — allow its health care contractors to provide free abortifacients and […]

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 […]

“Regulation of Birth” at Notre Dame?

[sta_anchor id=”top”]Notre Dame has not accepted the exemption from the Obamacare abortifcient/contraception mandate made available by the Trump administration but instead has notified its employees that they will continue receiving free abortifacients and contraceptives in 2018 from the administrator of the university’s health insurance plan. There is time for Notre Dame to change its mind […]