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 […]
Goodbye, Columbus aka Custer, Jackson, et al.
We have earlier marked the irony of Father Jenkins’s deciding to cover the Christopher Columbus murals in the Main Building while refusing to cover, as it were, the torrent of porn the University funnels to students 24/7. Because the subject arose repeatedly during the recent Alumni Weekend, we expand upon our prior analysis. The indignation among […]
Outstanding Students
Every year at our Annual Breakfast during Reunion Weekend we recognize undergraduates who have made an outstanding contribution to strengthening Notre Dame’s Catholic identity. The award comes with a donation made in their names to a campus group of their choice. This year’s recipients are Mackenzie Kraker, ’19, and James Martinson, ’19. You can hear […]
Lead Us [Not] Into Temptation
Note: We reported on the genesis of this student movement in earlier bulletins: Notre Dame, Pornography Middleman and Cover Columbus! Show Porn! Introduction Now, with the permission of The Observer, we reproduce below an op-ed by the leaders of this campaign that describes what has happened since then. (The co-authors, Jim Martinson (’19) and Ellie Gardey (’21), are […]
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 […]
Support The Front Line
Sextuple Your Donation In case you haven’t heard, the 29-hour giveathon — Notre Dame Day — begins Sunday evening 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 at 3:00 AM ET on Tuesday morning. Be as generous as you can. The […]
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 […]
