Campus Crossroads Project: Monument To Identity Drift
Notre Dame alumnus John Lyon (’54, ’55) thinks the Campus Crossroads project is a mistake for the university.
Compliance Questions
Chris Damian discusses Notre Dame’s lawsuit against the federal government’s HHS mandate.
Rockne Mountain High
Reflections on the Campus Crossroads project: The institutional impact of the project is being actively marketed as an intersection between football, academics, student life and campus infrastructure; as such, it finds interest with virtually everyone who has ever been associated with Notre Dame.
L’Arche Communities: Fostering Faith and Dialogue
As part of the Irish Rover’s Alumni Column, this issue’s column is written by an Executive Editor Emerita on the L’arche Kilkenny communities.
Progressive Phrases And Preschool Practices
Katie Petrik reflects on “people first language”, arguments for social equality and “politically correct trends” in relation to her role as a teacher of preschool children.
The Julia Effect: Embracing Catholic Guilt
Campus Editor Emeritus Elliot Argue takes an insightful look at the relationship between Catholicism and guilt through the lens of Evelyn Waugh’s character Julia Flyte in his Brideshead Revisited.
A Catholic Common Core
Kevin Donohue disagrees with those who claim that the Common Core lowers expectations for students and is contrary to the Catholic intellectual tradition or dogma.
Family Matters: A National Problem in the Wake of National Tragedy
On September 16, 2013, our nation watched in horror as news of yet another mass shooting unfolded.
This time it occurred in a secure military facility in Washington, DC, at the Navy Yard. Now living in the DC area, I was glued to the radio for the minute-by-minute updates provided by local and national news. As the news came in I was seeing images of parts of Southeast DC, where I spend time on the weekends watching the Washington Nationals baseball team, whose stadium is mere walking distance from the Navy Yard. The nation’s collective mind, heart and prayers were with those in the throes of grief that morning.
Conundrums of a Catholic Conservative in the Capitol City
Jonathan Liedl, Managing Editor Emeritus As a young Catholic man, Washington, DC is in many ways the place to be….
The most interesting person I talk to ≠ myself
Mary Daly, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Do you remember Margery Williams’s childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit? The story is about a toy…
