TFP. Luiz Sergio Solimeo: As soon as the news of the fire began circulating, Chilean Jesuit priest Nemo Castelli, currently residing at Boston College, tweeted: “What a prophetic beginning of Holy Week! I know that it is a patrimonial wonder … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Notre Dame
Young Parisians Sing the Rosary as Cathedral Burns
Relevant: A correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo named Ignacio Gil captured this quietly heartbreaking video of Parisian onlookers singing “Ave Maria” as the light from the fires of the Notre Dame Cathedral reflects off their faces: A lovely … Continue reading
He Was Converted at Notre Dame, Now He Watches the Cathedral Burn
National Catholic Register, Charles Lewis: By the time I the trip was over, something was stirring in me. I knew for certain that I needed to be baptized and start to live another life, a Christian life — which is … Continue reading
Ex-Senator, Pro-Abortion Wendy Davis Given Standing Ovation at Notre Dame
Cardinal Newman Society: Davis — who rose to stardom in the political world following her 2013 filibuster of pro-life legislation in Texas — ran the gamut of pro-abortion, anti-Catholic talking points during an event Monday hosted by the University of Notre … Continue reading
Hesburgh and Rice: Notre Dame Loses Two Polar Opposites
John F. McManus has written a masterful evaluation in The New American comparing Father Theodore Hesburgh, a world renowned ND president and adversary to Catholic teaching, and Professor Charles Rice, a defender of the Faith and Catholic ethical philosophy. Both died withing … Continue reading
No Surprise: Notre Dame and Jesuit Universities Support White House ‘Accounting Trick’
Catholic Culture: The University of Notre Dame and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities have issued statements welcoming the Obama administration’s “compromise” on its mandate on contraception and sterilization coverage. The former statement acknowledged “unresolved issues,” while the latter … Continue reading
“Made in China” Products Banned at Notre Dame
AsiaNews: The University of Notre Dame, a Catholic university in the US state of Indiana, does not allow the sale of products made in China. T-shirts, mascots, license plate frames, cups and other items made in China cannot be sold … Continue reading
Homosexual and Anti-Military Activists Escape Prosecution for Trespassing at ND, Not Pro-Life 88
I am posting the news of this outrageous assault on justice which issues from this once hallowed Catholic university as a column rather than a news item in order to draw more attention to it. The South Bend University’s (I … Continue reading
Notre Dame U Continues With Charges Against Pro-Life Trespassers
This is astounding. What hypocrisy! ND’s president, Father Jenkins, will join the March for Life this March, but he won’t (or hasn’t yet) dropped charges against 88 pro-lifers who protested Barack Obama’s addressing the graduates last June. Catholic Online reports: … Continue reading
More on Father Hesburgh the Man Who Decatholicized Notre Dame
This is a very revealing article from The Latin Mass Network. I knew that Hesburgh was a long time member of the anti-American Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921 by Communist Edward Mandell House and globalist conspirator Paul Warburg, … Continue reading
The Root of the ND Problem
There is so much commentary about President Obama’s Notre Dame invitation on Catholic websites that little more can be said. It’s the “little more” that the Philosopher would like to contribute.
Alan Keyes Will Trespass For the Unborn at ND
In a passionate call for peaceful protest, presidential candidate, Dr. Alan Keyes invited pro-lifers to join him at Notre Dame where he expects to be arrested. Let the jails in South be filled with us, he said. “…I will go … Continue reading
ND Professor Rallies Protesters Against Obama Invitation
Philosophy Professor Alfred J Freddoso: SOUTH BEND (NDResponse) – I stand here today as a representative of that small group of faculty that supports “NDResponse” and stands behind the exemplary students who have organized it in reaction to the university … Continue reading
ND Alumni and Sycamore Trust Send Protest to University President
CatholicOnLine reports: “Statement Of: The Officers and Board Members of The Sycamore Trust together with associated Notre Dame Alumni and other members of the Notre Dame Family Addressed To: Father Jenkins and the University Fellows and Members of the Board … Continue reading
But Notre Dame Renounced Its Catholic Identity Forty-Two Years Ago
Diogenes, as always, has a discerning article in his “Off the Record” column for Catholic Culture website. All of the Catholic colleges that signed the Land O’Lakes declaration in 1967 should have changed their Catholic names at the same time.