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Engineering dean tackles Catholicism’s “really tough questions”
Peter Kilpatrick, McCloskey Dean of the School of Engineering at Notre Dame, spoke and fielded questions on “The Really Tough Questions about Catholicism.” Kilpatrick began his talk with a list of what he called “apparently tough questions,” which ranged from the Church's stance on homosexuality to whether science and religion necessarily conflict. These questions, he said, are worth [...]
Speakers reflect on personal call to consecrated life
At this year’s Edith Stein Project, representatives from three communities of sisters spoke about religious life. The panel focused on each sister’s personal calls to consecrated life. The first speaker was Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel from the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia from Nashville, Tennessee. Religion was not a major part of her life, she said, until she was a [...]
Stratford Caldecott lectures on beauty, truth, and education
In a "Beauty for Truth's Sake" sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, Stratford Caldecott stressed the need to focus on beauty in order to find truth. Caldecott is the editor of Second Spring, a British journal of faith and culture. The lecture, which was loosely based on Caldecott's book of the same name, explored the relationship between beauty and truth and what that relationship [...]