- Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, to receive 2024 Laetare MedalClaire Babineaux-Fontenot, the chief executive officer of Feeding America, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2024 Laetare Medal — the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics — at Notre Dame’s 179th University Commencement Ceremony on May 19 (Sunday).
- McGrath Institute to host online seminars to help inform new USCCB pastoral statement on disability and inclusion in the ChurchThe webinars, which are free and open to the public, will begin Thursday (March 7) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST. Future sessions will take place on March 14 and 21 and April 11, 18 and 25.
- New Center for Liturgy initiative aims to foster children’s participation in worshipThe University of Notre Dame has received a grant of $1.25 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to create a three-year research and education initiative intended to foster children’s participation in worship in the context of late modernity. Lilly Endowment made the grant through its Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative.
- Breathe with both lungsNotre Dame's theology chair demonstrates Catholic character in a global context What comes to mind when you think about the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame? Likely, an image of traditional Roman Catholicism. But the Church is a global…
- University of Notre Dame to host Cardinal Mario GrechCardinal Mario Grech will visit the University of Notre Dame on Monday (Feb. 26) to offer a presentation titled “The Role of the Synodal Bishop.”
- Jennifer Newsome Martin to succeed O. Carter Snead as director of de Nicola Center for Ethics and CultureSarah Mustillo, the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of Arts and Letters, has appointed Notre Dame theologian Jennifer Newsome Martin to be the next director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She will succeed O. Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, who will conclude 12 years of service in this role on June 30.
- Notre Dame students, faculty, staff to participate in 2024 March for LifeThe University consistently sends one of the largest single contingents to the annual event through the support of the the Notre Dame Right to Life student club and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.
- Center for Literacy Education names ‘A Wish in the Dark’ 2023 Alexandria Award winnerThe Alexandria Award recognizes a middle grade or young adult book that advances Gospel values through the positive actions and portrayals of tenacious adolescents. It is named for St. Catherine of Alexandria, an adolescent Christian of the fourth century who was an eager student and a famed orator. Copies of the book will be given to schools across the country, including local schools in South Bend, and will be accompanied by a curriculum insert designed by an expert teacher offering a sample lesson plan.
- John and Sue Sobrato receive Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic EducationThe Alliance for Catholic Education awarded John and Sue Sobrato, known for their deep support of Catholic schools in the Bay Area and beyond, the 2023 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the Alliance for Catholic Education.
- de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture co-sponsors conference on legacy of Pope Benedict XVIThe de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, in partnership with the Ratzinger Foundation and the Benedict XVI Institute, is hosting a series of academic panels discussing “Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Unfinished Debates on Faith, Culture, and Politics,” with the first event to be held Wednesday (Nov. 29) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
- Notre Dame to observe 100th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Brother Columba O’Neill, C.S.C.The University of Notre Dame is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Brother Columba O’Neill, C.S.C., on Nov. 20 (Monday), with a series of events including a novena, a Mass and a spotlight exhibit at the Hesburgh Library.
- ND experts respond to ‘Laudate Deum’: Tackling climate change is ‘a fundamentally human and social problem’On Wednesday (Oct. 4), Pope Francis released “Laudate Deum,” an apostolic exhortation on climate change, intended as a follow-up to his 2015 environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si’.” Below, experts from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters and Keough School of Global Affairs offer their insight into the new document.
- de Nicola Center to award 2024 ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Elvira ParraviciniDr. Elvira Parravicini, founding director of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program and associate professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2024 Evangelium Vitae Medal — the nation’s most important award for heroes of the pro-life movement — at a Mass and dinner on April 27 at Notre Dame.
- ND Expert David Lantigua on Pope Francis’ forthcoming ‘Laudate Deum’: ‘Destruction of the planet inevitably leads to degradation of human dignity’University of Notre Dame associate professor of theology David Lantigua, the William W. and Anna Jean Cushwa Co-Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, anticipates that “Laudate Deum” will be an exhortation calling for a more urgent response to the climate crisis and offering bold proposals to address the accelerated climate change evident in recent events and environmental trends — including the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, hotter and more acidic oceans, rampant wildfires and extreme weather conditions.
- Notre Dame receives $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.The University has received a grant of $1.25 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to expand the work of the McGrath Institute for Church Life’s Holy Family Initiative for Family Catechesis, which offers parents, caregivers and Church leaders the tools they need to effectively pass on their Catholic faith to the next generation.
- Global works of art from Notre Dame Crucifix Initiative to be displayed at The History MuseumSelected works of art from the Crucifix Initiative will be on display in an exhibit on view starting Thursday (Aug. 10) at The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana. Launched in 2019, the initiative seeks to highlight the globalism of Catholicism — and to represent the diversity and internationalism of the University and its community — by building and displaying a collection of crucifixes from around the world.
- Carolyn Woo to speak at ACE CommencementCarolyn Woo, the retired CEO of Catholic Relief Services and former dean of the Mendoza College of Business, will serve as the keynote speaker at 2023 Commencement Ceremony of the Alliance for Catholic Education on Saturday (July 15).
- Notre Dame Vision program celebrates 20 years of in-person programmingFor the past 20 years, Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross students of different majors and walks of life have given their summers to empower high school students to ask big questions during one-week summer conferences on Notre Dame’s campus.
- de Nicola Center presents Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Robert P. GeorgeClick for a video profile of Robert P. George…
- Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism names new co-directorsAmerican studies and history professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings, who has led the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism for the past 11 years, will step down from the position in June, with Notre Dame historian Darren Dochuk and theologian David Lantigua becoming co-directors. Cummings, the Rev. John A. O'Brien College Professor of History, has been associated with the center for nearly 30 years, starting when she arrived at the University as a doctoral student in history.
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