Stratford Caldecott at Notre Dame

 The Center for Liturgy is sponsoring the talk "Beauty for Truth's Sake" by Stratford Caldecott, Editor of Second Spring, on Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. in 138 DeBartolo Hall. To wet your appetite, here are some quotes from Caldecott:

"We must overcome the opposition between the 'cultures' of science and the arts by awakening the poetic imagination and reestablishing, for the sake of science as much as for the arts, a truly humane education."

"When we come to Mass... we should be able to experience a sense that here, at last, all the threads of our education are being brought together. If we don't, something is wrong with our education or our liturgy."

"The nature of Being as an expression of Love is the essential foundation for humane education."

"Truth is Being as known. Goodness is Being as willed. Beauty is Being as enjoyed."

"We have lost the ability to perceive the inner, connecting principles, the intrinsic relations, the logoi, of creation, which the ancient Christian Pythagorean tradition (right through the medieval period) understood in terms of number and cosmic harmony."

"Why do we desire truth? What makes truth attractive to us?"

"The nature of Being as an expression of Love is the essential foundation for humane education."

"A popular misconception has it that medieval man thought the world was flat, and modern science gave us a round world. ...But the truth is almost the opposite of this. Medieval man inhabited a three-dimensional cosmos which has now been largely replaced by a flat universe, with no ontological depth."

"Education begins in the family and ends in the Trinity. Praise (of beauty), service (of goodness), and contemplation (of truth) are essential to the full expression of our humanity."

Updated Conference Program Now Available

The updated program for our annual fall conference, Younger Than Sin: Retrieving Simplicity Through the Virtues of Humility, Wonder, and Joy, is now available on our website here. The conference takes place in McKenna Hall on the campus of Notre Dame, November 18-20. Register now!

Invited Speakers include:
-Rev. John Saward, Catholic priest from the Church of Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine in Oxford, England, and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
-Lawrence Cunningham, John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame
-H. Tristram Engelhardt, Rice University
-Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame, and visiting fellow at Princeton University
-Anthony Esolen, Providence College
-David Fagerberg, University of Notre Dame
-Daniel McInerny, Baylor University
-Margaret Monahan Hogan, University of Portland
-Jim Towey, former president of St. Vincent College and founder of Aging with Dignity
-Ralph Wood, Baylor University and visiting fellow at Providence College

Trip to Chicago for All Souls Day Requiem Mass at St. John Cantius Catholic Church

Again this year, Notre Dame Campus Ministry's Four:7 Catholic Fellowship is sponsoring a chartered-bus trip to Chicago to attend the All Souls Day Requiem Mass (Extraordinary Form) on Tuesday, November 2, at St. John Cantius Catholic Church. 

Date:  Tuesday, Nov 2
Check-in:  5:00pm at 114 Coleman-Morse Center
Bus departure from ND:  5:30pm sharp
Bus return to ND:  ~12:00am
Cost: $15 to help cover cost of bus


If you are interested in attending, reserve a spot by by Friday, Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. by e-mailing Campus Minister Brett Perkins at Perkins.26@nd.edu.

Your $15 (cash or check to Campus Ministry) can be brought by at any time to the Campus Ministry office on the 3rd floor of CoMo and given to Bobbi McMahon or to the student worker at the front desk. 

For a foretaste of the church and its beauty, check out the website at http://cantius.org

Fr. Jenkins to lead a Notre Dame Rosary for Life

On Tuesday, October 26^th, the Office of University Life Initiatives together with the Office of the President will host Notre Dame’s first “Rosary for Life.” A scriptural Rosary will be led by university president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., with scripture passages and meditations read by students, faculty and staff before each of the five decades of the Rosary.

The Rosary will be held in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, beginning at 6.30 PM.

October is observed as the month of the Rosary and Respect Life month. We would like to invite you to join Fr. Jenkins and the whole Notre Dame Family in praying for a greater respect for the dignity of all human life, from conception to natural death.  

TONIGHT: Dale Ahlquist to lecture on GK Chesterton

Please join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. for the second installment of GKC@ND, a lecture series celebrating the 80th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's historic visit to Notre Dame. Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society, Publisher of Gilbert Magazine, and host of the video series "G.K. Chesterton: the Apostle of Common Sense," will deliver the talk "What's Wrong with the World: A Chesterton Economic Solution"  in DeBartolo Hall, Room 140. The Center for Ethics and Culture co-sponsors this series with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and Notre Dame Vision.

Annual National Conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists to be held at Holy Cross College

Holy Cross College at Notre Dame will be holding the 19th annual national conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists October 22-23, 2010. Attendance is free for Notre Dame, Holy Cross College, and St. Mary's College faculty and students. The full schedule can be viewed here.

Deadlines Announced for Fellowships

The deadlines have been announced for applications for the Remick Fellowship and the Myser Fellowship at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture for the 2011-2012 academic year. Applications are due by January 15, 2011 and we will respond to applicants by February 15, 2011. The fellowships provide opportunities for scholars to carry out a proposed research project related to the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition. Read about the application requirements here.

Richard Doerflinger to Receive First University of Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life Evangelium Vitae Medal

Richard Doerflinger, Associate Director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Secretariat for Pro Life Activities, will receive the University of Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life Evangelium Vitae Medal.

According to David Solomon, Chair of the Fund’s governing committee and William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, “the Fund is establishing the annual Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to honor individuals whose outstanding efforts have served to proclaim the Gospel of Life by steadfastly affirming and defending the sanctity of human life from its earliest stages.  Richard Doerflinger’s unwavering commitment and heroic witness to life on Capitol Hill and beyond make him the perfect first recipient.” 

The Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, which will be announced annually on Respect Life Sunday, the first Sunday of October, consists of a specially commissioned medal and $10,000 prize, to be presented at a spring banquet.

A tireless leader in the pro-life movement for over 30 years, Doerflinger has been involved in every single life issue, including embryo research, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, at the very highest levels in federal and state governments. Doerflinger’s efforts were integral to the conception, passage, and continued vitality of parental notification and consent, unborn victims of violence, and born-alive infant protection laws, partial birth abortion bans, conscience protections, the Weldon Amendment (which prevents patenting of human embryos), and abortion funding restrictions, both domestic and internationally, such as the Hyde Amendment and the Mexico City Policy.  Doerflinger was also instrumental in the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to protect the unborn in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  In addition to this work, Doerflinger is a bioethics expert and consummate researcher, unapologetically and effectively communicating the moral basis of life issues.

The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life is an expendable fund at the University of Notre Dame dedicated to educating Notre Dame students regarding the dignity of human life, specifically at its beginning stages, and to encouraging relevant understanding, support, and involvement among the entire Notre Dame community on beginning of life issues.  The Fund is administered by a five-member committee.  The Committee members are David Solomon, Chair and Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture; Elizabeth Kirk, Associate Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture; Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture; O. Carter Snead, Associate Professor of Law and former Chief Counsel for the President’s Council on Bioethics; and Daniel Philpott, Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies.

Contact:  Angela Pfister at pfister.5@nd.edu or 574.631.1868.

From:  Michael O. Garvey, public information and communications

TONIGHT: Fr. Ian Boyd to lecture on G.K. Chesterton

Please join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. for the first installment of GKC@ND, a lecture series celebrating the 80th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's historic visit to Notre Dame. Fr. Ian Boyd, Founder and Editor of The Chesterton Review, and president of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture based at Seton Hall University, will deliver the talk "Chesterton at Notre Dame" at 7:30 p.m. in DeBartolo Hall, Room 140. The Center for Ethics and Culture co-sponsors this series with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and NDVIsion.