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Reflection: Notre Dame celebrates the sanctity of life
Students and faculty from the University of Notre Dame packed into the Log Chapel for the Sanctity of Life prayer service on January 23. These men and women came together to offer their prayers for peace around the world, for a greater respect for life at all stages, and for the hundreds of thousands of mothers, fathers and children whose lives are affected each year by abortion. A large [...]
Center for Ethics and Culture Keynote Lecture Discusses Aquinas
The Center for Ethics and Culture's fall conference opened with Fr. John Saward's address ‘'Giving wisdom to little ones’ (Psalm 18: 8): St. Thomas Aquinas - Doctor of the Little Way.” Fr. Saward, an associate lecturer at Oxford and a parish priest of the church that J.R.R. Tolkien once attended, explained how Aquinas reflected and lived this ideal of retrieving simplicity. In Aquinas’ [...]
ND’s ECHO program: bridging the gap between church and academy
Professor John Cavadini recently delivered a lecture on “Bridging the gap between the Church and the Academy” to a packed Geddes Hall Chapel. He focused his discussion mainly on a Notre Dame program with the potential to reduce this gap: the ECHO Faith Formation Leadership Program. First, Cavadini expounded on the nature of catechesis. He stated that catechesis is essentially the [...]
Innocence of the Holy Father Upheld
As accusations increase and recognition of the priest abuse-scandal within the Church continues to grow, a number of recent reports have taken aim at the temporal head of the Church, Pope Benedict XVI. German news media have alleged that the future pope, Joseph Ratzinger, while Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982, oversaw the transfer and reassignment of a priest accused of an act of sexual [...]