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 […]
Easter Message 2022
by Father John Raphael, ’89 Though we celebrate the Easter Mystery every year, each year it has deeper meaning for us, as each year we draw closer to that moment when we will stand before the Risen Lord in all his splendor. It seems to me, however, that there is a particular beauty and a […]
New Notre Dame LGBT Alumni Organization Promotes Same-Sex Marriage
Notre Dame’s new official LGBT alumni organization gets right to work promoting same-sex marriage.
Besmirching Black History Month with Critical Race Theory
We defer our planned follow-up to our last bulletin on Notre Dame’s “Day for Life” to tell you how the administration, in the course of purportedly celebrating Black History Month, has instead sullied it by embracing Critical Race Theory. Before describing the particulars of the administration’s action, we relate briefly the history of Black History […]
Notre Dame Day for Life
Although Notre Dame cancelled the student trip to Washington only nine days before this year’s January 21 March for Life in Washington, D.C., the Notre Dame Right to Life students succeeded in organizing a successful parallel event on campus. Both the national and the campus events testified to the vitality of the pro-life movement as […]
“War Over Woke Catholicism”at Notre Dame
With the permission of National Review (copyright reserved), we reproduce below the recently published article “Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism” by Alexandra DeSanctis (ND ’16) and Carl R. Trueman. The article is an especially compelling analysis of the controversy triggered by the editorial by Mary Frances Myler, the editor-in-chief of the […]
The Irish Rover Barks!
“How is it that a Notre Dame undergraduate understands this, but Father John Jenkins, the university’s president, does not.” (Rod Dreher) This bulletin is devoted to describing just what it is that a Notre Dame undergraduate understands but Father Jenkins does not. The bulletin’s unusual length reflects the importance of the subject. We ask your […]
Jenkins Praises Alumnus For Same-Sex Marriage High Court Win
Notre Dame gay alumnus reveals longstanding support of university president in his memoir on his “legal battle for marriage, equality, and inclusion,” published by Notre Dame Press.
Biden Debases Laetare Medal As Students Bolster Notre Dame’s Catholic Identity
Following our last bulletin about an Irish Rover investigative report, we write today principally about Notre Dame’s Catholic student organizations, but the recent feticidal outburst by Notre Dame honoree President Joe Biden claims priority of place. President Biden, the debasing of the Laetare Medal, and a lucky break for Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal […]
Notre Dame’s Non-Heteronormative Welcome Week
In our last two bulletins, we cited the University’s embrace of Pride Month and the Notre Dame Alumni Association’s establishment of an official alumni LGBTQ “affinity group” as evidence of a cultural shift at the University from treatment of homosexuals with “respect and compassion,” which the Church demands, toward acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual sex, […]
