Making Walls: An Ode to the Office Cubicle (by R. Smith with apologies to R. Frost)
Something there is about an office that loves a wall, That wants it up full to the ceiling, Not halfway…
Liberal Education and the Research Ideal
As an advancing research university, Notre Dame faces a unique challenge: to pursue knowledge while remaining committed to the framework…
Drawing wisdom from St. Ignatius of Loyola on the Solemnity of Christ the King
Delivered in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on November 21, the following homily concluded the Notre Dame Center for…
Taking on ‘Notre Dame, Our Mother’ in a New Way: Sociology professor becomes Catholic
What led sociology professor Christian Smith and his wife Emily to embrace the Catholic Church and convert from Protestantism this…
Does Catholic liturgical music have a universal value?
In Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an opera we study in my music class, there is a funny and yet quite…
An Academic “Ruling Class”
Fr. Norman Weslin, O.S., at the complaint of Notre Dame, was arrested in May 2009 and charged as a criminal…
Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy
A year and a half ago, when President Obama signed his executive order funding embryo-destructive stem-cell research, I argued in…
So Long Captain Kirk: A Personal Reflection
The decision by Father Tom Doyle, Notre Dame’s new Vice-President for Student Affairs to fire Bill Kirk from his position…
Sixty Years at Notre Dame: Vincent de Santis as Scholar, Teacher and Friend
Vincent De Santis took up his initial appointment as an instructor in history at Notre Dame in the Fall of…
