This week’s Who’s Who is Hanh Pham. Hanh was born and lived in Vietnam until 1985, when she moved to […]
Bigger is Better
I can remember more than one occasion in my childhood when my mom or my dad was the recipient of […]
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 […]
The Fed’s Big Move
The day after mid-term elections, the Federal Reserve, led by its Chairman Ben Bernanke, announced it would buy $600 billion […]
Communion in the hand and the life of grace
Pope Benedict made some headlines a few years ago when, in his public Masses, he began only to distribute Holy […]
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 […]
Who’s Who: Tagen Gaul
This week’s Who’s Who is Tagen Gaul. If you have ever been to Starbucks in between classes you have probably […]
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 […]