Notre Dame
Notre Dame employees keeping free birth control coverage
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 7, 2017
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The university had fought the federal health care law's original mandate on religious grounds.
Notre Dame avoids Trump controversy as Pence to receive honorary degree
By David Gibson — March 2, 2017
(RNS) The decision to invite the vice president caps months of intense debate over the wisdom of bringing Trump to campus. But it raises other potential concerns.
In honoring Biden and Boehner, Notre Dame lives up to Pope Francis’ vision
By Yonat Shimron — May 11, 2016
(RNS) Notre Dame President John Jenkins is sending a message in line with the pope’s vision.
Notre Dame rebukes ugly politics, gives award to Biden and Boehner
By David Gibson — March 6, 2016
(RNS) The university's president said honoring the vice president and the former House speaker was a counterpoint to our "toxic political environment."
Richard McBrien, outspoken liberal theologian and Notre Dame scholar, dies at 78
By David Gibson — January 26, 2015
(RNS) In his media punditry and in a weekly column that ran in some diocesan newspapers, the Rev. Richard McBrien argued for the ordination of women, optional celibacy, and birth control, among other things.
Did Mario Cuomo pave the way for today’s conservative Catholic dissenters? (ANALYSIS)
By David Gibson — January 2, 2015
(RNS) As liberal Catholics eulogize the former New York governor, who famously elaborated a position by which Catholics pols could be “personally opposed” to abortion while still supporting abortion rights, it’s worth considering whether today’s conservative Catholics are benefiting from that same rationale when it comes to other policies.
Bishops object as Catholic universities offer same-sex benefits
By David Gibson — October 30, 2014
(RNS) Twenty-two Jesuit universities now provide benefits to same-sex partners.
Notre Dame signals welcome to gay athletes in new campaign
By David Gibson — May 8, 2014
(RNS) The Catholic Church has taken a lot of heat over its stance against gay rights and for policies that often bar openly gay people from participating in church life. But the University of Notre Dame, an icon of American Catholicism, is going against the flow by supporting student athletes who come out as gay.
Candida Moss debunks the ‘myth’ of Christian persecution
By Lauren Markoe — May 14, 2013
(RNS) Growing up Catholic in England, Candida Moss felt secure in life, yet learned in church that Christians have been persecuted since the dawn of Christianity. As an adult and a theologian, she wants to set the record straight.
Choosing a new pope? There’s a Spotify playlist for that
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 28, 2013
The cardinal who will choose the next pope will pray for guidance, but all believers need to pray along, says theologian Timothy O'Malley, director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
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