Last year, the chief executive officers of several large American hotel chains received a respectful yet strongly worded letter from two academics, Robert George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. One year later—this September—the two wrote to the same CEOs to urge them to follow the example of a Scandinavian hotel owner, Petter Stordalen, who had stopped offering pornography in his hotel entertainment systems.
Patrick Deneen, Notre Dame professor of political science, led a September 30 discussion on building a culture of life as part of the Right to Life Club’s seminar series. These seminars are designed to engage undergraduates in conversation with faculty members about pressing contemporary life issues.
In our overzealous capitalistic society, the juxtaposition of excessive wealth with desperate poverty exists because of injustice within our government and economy. Never has there been such a discrepancy between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ in our society; there are too many people living without necessary services such as food, shelter and healthcare. My summer experience provided me the opportunity to see firsthand those in need and to glimpse how we as a community can help each other.
During his papacy, Bl. Pope John Paul II stressed a “universal call to holiness,” canonizing and beatifying hundreds of individuals as exemplars of the faith. Most if not all of them were bishops, priests, religious brothers and sisters or martyrs.
Rebecca Self, Religion and Ethics Editor Doctor Arthur Brooks, a leading scholar on American culture and a practicing Catholic, thinks […]
Michael Infantine, Staff Writer God is calling. How will you answer? This is the motto of Notre Dame Vision. Operated […]
Colin Devine, Staff Writer My mom found the bookmark while she was cleaning my room. Words can have an amazing […]
Santiago Legarre, Guest Contributor Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon was a student at the University of Chicago in 1963 when […]
Kristina Flathers, Staff Writer For those of you who know me, you may be aware that I am the newly-elected […]
Stephen Wandor, Staff Writer “The best way to defend life is to celebrate life.” This quote from Matthew Kelly became […]
