‘Sections’ Archives
ROVER exclusive: Interview with Ryan Bomberger
Exposing the “eugenics and racism” of the pro-choice movement THE IRISH ROVER brings an exclusive interview with Ryan Bomberg, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, he will speak on the disproportionate affect of abortion on the African American community in the United States on Friday, February 3. How would you summarize the [...]
Professor leaves Georgetown for Notre Dame
Georgetown University Government Professor Patrick Deneen recently announced his decision to resign from his position at Georgetown to join Notre Dame’s political science department this fall. On January 23, Deneen announced his decision on the online journal FrontPorchRepublic.com, citing his dissatisfaction with his experience at Georgetown and a personal desire to leave the Washington, [...]
Keeping the faith in matters of conscience
Something truly terrible emanated from the White House a couple of weeks ago. There are bad decisions, and there are evil decisions. There are evil decisions disguised with sophistication as progressive, or hidden in the riddles of the law; then there are evil decisions that rear their ugly heads and roar for recognition. This terrible emanation was neither hidden nor progressive; in fact, as [...]
Interfaith relationships: Christian unity or division?
Relationships can never be an easy task. Expectations, cultural backgrounds, and career goals matters that provide much meaningful formation towards our own identities, can also cause much division in romantic relationships. The Catholic Church also recognized the emergence of new concepts of love and marriage coexisting even within religiously diverse households. Even though the Church does [...]
What though the odds
Film remembers bus crash, celebrates community Plans for a new feature film about the Notre Dame community are currently underway. It is the third movie ever to be granted permission by the university to be shot on campus. Entitled TWO MILES FROM HOME, the film recounts the tragic bus crash of the Notre Dame women’s swim team on January 24, 1992. That night, the team’s bus slid on a [...]
Bishop Rhoades contemplates faith and reason
Students, professors, and other members of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese gathered together for Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades’ special visit to St. Mary’s College on January 26. The bishop spoke at St. Mary’s Fifteenth Annual Symposium on St. Thomas Aquinas. His lecture, “The Contemplation of Truth by Faith and Reason: St. Thomas Aquinas, Blessed John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI,” [...]
Campus Ministry holds Christian unity prayer service
On Thursday evening, January 26, an interdenominational service for Christian unity was held in the Keenan-Stanford chapel. Fr. Paul Doyle, CSC, presided over the service, which featured prayer, music, and scriptural readings and reflections. Luke Potter, a graduate student in the philosophy department, and Mary Atwood, an undergraduate senior, provided these personal reflections on the [...]
Heal. Unify. Enlighten.
New banners decorate campus “Heal. Unify. Enlighten.” This fall, a new set of posters and banners bearing these words were unveiled across campus this fall. Displayed prominently in the LaFortune student center, the dining halls, and on many poles and lampposts, these banners feature various images and quotations which, according to University Spokesperson Dennis Brown, reflect the mission [...]
Cheers and Jeers
Cheers 1. Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation – Bravo to this cancer foundation for snipping its ties with Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood called the decision “deeply disturbing and disappointing.” Wow, those sound like the adjectives we all use for Planned Barrenhood. Check out UNPLANNED, the story of former Texas Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson for struggle against [...]
Congregation of Holy Cross celebrates founder’s feastday
Around the world, the Congregation of Holy Cross celebrated the feast of their founder, Bl. Basil Moreau on 20 January. Rev. David T. Tyson, provincial superior of the United States Province of Holy Cross Priests and Brothers, offered the Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in honor of Blessed Moreau. At its conclusion, the Spirit of Holy Cross Award was conferred upon University of [...]
Owning beauty: The suburb in the American imagination, Part IV
Notre Dame’s School of Architecture is well known for its new urbanist tendencies, but I think what is more important is our unspoken credo that pretty much anywhere below the Arctic Circle can be made beautiful, comfortable, and prosperous; in short, a great place to live. To do so requires vision, and sensitive, informed development - but it can be done. Our endless outpouring of schemes [...]
“Women and Spirit” highlights contributions of women religious
“We offer you no salary; no recompense; no holidays; no pensions, but much hard work; a poor dwelling; few consolations; many disappointments; frequent sickness; a violent or lonely death.” So ran an advertisement for the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Aberdeen, South Dakota, penned by Mother M. John Hughes in the late nineteenth century. It captures the generous and courageous [...]
University confirms United Way meets charitable giving requirements
The university recently defended its yearlong campaign to raise $300,000 for United Way, a non-profit organization which sponsors initiatives that focus on education, income, and health. Though United Way has garnered criticism from pro-life activists for its ties to Planned Parenthood, University Spokesman Dennis Brown said that the charity’s St. Joseph County chapter meets the university’s [...]
Students, departments reflect on role of grad student teachers
Undergraduate complaints about graduate students’ teaching and grading are common. These courses are sometimes regarded as inferior to courses taught by regular faculty. Suzann Petrongolo, a film, television, and theatre major and Italian minor, said that a graduate student’s ultimate focus is his own coursework rather than those he is teaching. “I think that they’re students too [...]
ND student vets describe experience
Today, Notre Dame joins over 170 colleges and universities across the nation by including the National Roll Call in their observance of Veterans Day. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Clarke Memorial Fountain ("Stonehenge") with the presentation of the flag. Throughout the day, 62 members of the Notre Dame community, half of whom are members of the university’s Navy, Army, and Air Force [...]