Becoming Pro-Choice at Notre Dame
In our last bulletin we described the alarming abandonment of pro-life convictions by Notre Dame students, the evidence of pro-choice faculty sentiment, and the open dissent from Church teaching by prominent Notre Dame professors. But we promised better news the next time. So here it is: The March for Life Notre Dame participation in the recent […]
Did I Say Pro-Life?
The most prominent leader of pro-abortion Catholics welcomes statement of high profile Notre Dame ethicist and lawyer that abortion to protect the health or life of the mother and in cases of rape is morally justified and should be legally protected. According to an alarming recent study, a large number of students become pro-choice while at […]
Paying The Price For Non-Violence
Fr. Norman Weslin arrested at Notre Dame A professor, a priest, and counsel denounce as discriminatory and discreditable Notre Dame’s pressing criminal charges against pro-life demonstrators. Notre Dame’s support of the prosecution of the pro-life ND88 demonstrators was a major topic of discussion at last June’s annual breakfast meeting of Sycamore Trust at Notre Dame. […]
Notre Dame, The Pope, and Gays
SOUTH BEND, IN – Notre Dame administration denounces allegedly anti-gay cartoon but yawns at cartoon brutally lampooning the Pope as evidence surfaces of anti-Catholic pro-gay bias in faculty hiring. In a recent bulletin we displayed this vicious caricature of the Pope that was reproduced recently in the University-approved school paper, The Observer: click to enlarge Our purpose […]
Unfriendly Fire
Bill Kirk (’84, Law ’88) SOUTH BEND, IN – Notre Dame’s abrupt dismissal of a high-ranking, outspoken advocate for life dismays many as a sign of times to come. In a stunning development with ominous implications, the University has dismissed a long-time top officer, Bill Kirk, who was the only member of the Administration to […]
Pro-Gay Campaign at Notre Dame
SOUTH BEND, IN – The Student Gay Rights Campaign and Censorship of Church Teaching. In this bulletin we describe a student-led campaign for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the University’s anti-discrimination provision, and we also alert those in the Chicago area to a talk that Bill Dempsey, President of Sycamore Trust, will give at […]
Hidden Agendas?
SOUTH BEND, IN – Notre Dame absolves pro-gay and anti-military trespassers but supports prosecution of pro-life demonstrators; Father Hesburgh accedes to Speaker Pelosi’s request to call key Congressman about health care bill. We have learned that a few years ago the University dropped trespass charges against pro-gay and anti-military demonstrators. This contrasts sharply with the […]
Ralph McInerny, Requiescat in Pace
Dr. Ralph McInerny, an internationally acclaimed scholar who was for 55 years one of Notre Dame’s most beloved and influential teachers, died on Friday, January 29 at age 80. The feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, to whose work Dr. McInerny had devoted so much of his life, had just passed. Dr. McInerny was first […]
Update on the ND 88 & The Gay Rights March
SOUTH BEND, IN – The ND 88 and The Gay Rights March: Rationalizations and Silence. In this bulletin, we ask again that you consider a year-end donation to Sycamore Trust and we update our reports on two matters, the trespass prosecutions against the Commencement Day demonstrators (the “ND 88”) and the University’s support of student […]
How Pro-Life is Notre Dame?
SOUTH BEND, IN – Notre Dame Greets a New Pro-life Bishop While Father Jenkins Continues to Serve on a Pro-abortion Board. Father Jenkins declared that Notre Dame “engaged with” President Obama because “we care so much” about abortion and embryonic stem cell research. We will from time to time examine the nature and degree of this […]
