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 […]
Gentleman of the Year
On Mar 1, 2019, at 9:54 AM, Alain Oliver wrote: Dear Bill & Jim, I imagine that you might have already peeked at the voting totals (2/28, at midnight). But it brings me great joy to see how the tally ended with Jim, clearly, in first place. Jim I am so very happy for you. […]
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
Add Your Heading Text Here 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.) We reproduce below a moderately shortened letter from some 90 “Men of Notre Dame” presenting their petition […]
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 […]
About Millstones
[bctt tweet=”#NotreDame is on the wrong side of the church’s sexual abuse scandal with Abp #McCarrick’s honorary degree around its neck. #GoCatholicND”] Father John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president, has decided to let stand the honorary degree it awarded Archbishop Theodore McCarrick pending a canonical trial.. Fr. Jenkins found “no reason to question” the […]
Follow The Leader
[bctt tweet=”#NotreDame should waste no more time in revoking the honorary degree it awarded Archbishop Theodore #McCarrick in 2008. #GoCatholicND”] On Tuesday, July 31, Bill Dempsey sent the following letter respecting the McCarrick affair to Father Jenkins and the other Fellows of the University on behalf of the officers and trustees of Sycamore Trust: [box]Dear Father […]
