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Faculty Column

Notre Dame Trustees At A Crossroads: An Appeal

Father Bill Miscamble, CSC offers insight on the controversial Campus Crossroads project and the challenge it presents to the Notre Dame Board of Trustees.

Pope John Paul II: “Be Not Afraid!”

Professor Reimers explores St. Pope John Paul II’s exhortation to “Be not afraid!” on his canonization.

Educators In The Faith At Notre Dame: New Challenges For Holy Cross

Holy Cross has the responsibility to educate Notre Dame students in their faith.

The Church As Counter-culture

Patrick Deneen tells modern Catholics what must be done in the face of today’s society.

Notre Dame at a Crossroads: Misplaced Priorities and a Flawed Vision

“This Project must be opposed forcefully. Not only is it poorly conceived and designed, but it damages the true mission of the university.”

The Core Curriculum: One Opinion

So it seems to me that the core curriculum is the right sort of thing for the university to reexamine at this time, not because it of its faults but because of its potential … I doubt that much is to be gained in the seemingly low-risk strategy of minimizing our distinctiveness, scaling back the unique features of our curriculum.

What is the Mission of the Catholic Law School?

In this issue’s Faculty Column, Professor Richard Garnett asks the question and answers with his own question: what would it mean to think about law as a vocation?

The Wisdom Of Better Choices

Professor Laura Hollis explains the importance of the wisdom tradition and that “wisdom is not ingrained. It is learned, and therefore must be handed down.” This is written as a response to the current shift in emphasis on cultural wisdom to that of legality, which has devalued wisdom.

A Preliminary Bout: The Health Care Mandate

Professor Charles Rice has provided an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Contraception and Persecution, which will be published by St. Augustine’s Press in January, 2014.

Common Concern for the Common Core

Look at today’s newspapers and you will see that Americans are poised to fundamentally reform two huge sectors of our lives. The headlines on page one will tell you about the healthcare sector. Our government is even “closed” due to the fight over implementing “Obamacare.” That’s one. Look at one of the inside pages and you will likely read about the other wholesale reform, the one of K-12 education. This reform is more important than the healthcare changeover, even though it is less prominently reported.