The University of Notre Dame announced on Monday that Father Robert A. Dowd will assume the role of president of the university next year. Father Dowd will succeed Father John Jenkins, who has served as president for the past 19…
Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., began his tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame by discontinuing student performances of the feminist Vagina Monologues and a queer film festival. It was a strong move substantiated by a clear articulation of…
The president of a self-described Catholic university is endorsing controversial drag shows on campus, despite students’ protests. Ahead of a drag show “symposium” scheduled for November 3rd at the University of Notre Dame, the school’s president Fr. John Jenkins is…
“I first watched porn when I was 15 years old,” writes University of Notre Dame senior Josh Haskell in the pages of the campus’s student newspaper, the Observer. Now, after battling through addiction, he’s telling his story and helping other…
On May 22, Tamara Kay, a professor of global affairs and sociology at the University of Notre Dame, filed a defamation lawsuit accusing the Irish Rover, a conservative student newspaper at the university, of lying when it claimed that she…
Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz once gave an apt description of the university he loved: “For those who know Notre Dame, no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.” Holtz is right….
The biblical command to “Go … and teach all nations” provided the inspiration for the creation of Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the country. John Carroll, the Jesuit archbishop who founded the college in 1789, chose a site…
The University of Notre Dame, which has struggled over how to voice support for gay marriage and transgenderism without outright betraying its Catholicism or enraging the local bishop, took a major step closer to explicit support on Thursday. (READ MORE:…
The culture war is usually a cold one. Conservatives and liberals have been facing off on social issues for generations, fighting proxy wars in the courts or newspapers. And as secular progressivism becomes increasingly dogmatic — you’re a bigot, a…
