Religion
Just Lending a Hand
Day 1 When I walked into the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, people were everywhere — kids playing and running around, mothers nursing babies, teenagers chatting...
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Keeper of the Flame
Rev. Peter Rocca, C.S.C., grew up so Catholic he claims he didn’t know a single public school student, so Catholic that piano-teaching nuns taught him to “play” the organ as...
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Study Finds Muslim-Majority Countries Lack, but Hold Surprising Potential For, Religious Freedom
In his newest research, Daniel Philpott, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, examines conditions in 47 Muslim-majority countries and considers a...
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The Redeeming Grace of Manual Labor
For six months in 1961, I lived with four other men in the “men’s bungalow” of the largest convent in the Diocese of Pittsburgh – the five of us lost, one way or another,...
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Fr. Jacques Philippe on Interior Freedom
In this video: spiritual director, retreat master, and author Fr. Jacques Philippe talks of interior freedom. Philippe is a member of the Community of the Beatitudes (France), and...
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Fighting for Life in the Digital Age
This talk features Ernest Morrell. Morrell is the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is an...
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St. Nicholas: Miracle Worker and Gift Giver
Gabriel Radle, Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, presents on the life and cult of St. Nicholas of Myra. This lecture is the seventh of...
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A Heart for Muslims: Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Gabriel Reynolds, Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, presents on Bl. Charles de Foucauld. This lecture is the sixth of seven lectures in the 2018 Saturdays...
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Stability, Conversion, and Obedience
This talk features Christopher Fisher (Portsmouth Abbey) on “A True ’Benedict Option’: The 10th Century English Benedictine Reform and the Poetic Kingdom of Edgar the...
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From the Ideological Lie to Freedom as Self Restriction
This talk features Professor Daniel J. Mahoney (Assumption College). Session Chair: Gladden J. Pappin (University of Dallas, American Affairs). Presented at the Center for Ethics...
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Beyond the Soul and Barbed Wire: The Continuing Legacy of Solzhenitsyn
With Ralph Wood (Baylor University) on “The Uniquely Orthodox Character of Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Imagination,” David Deavel (St. Thomas University) on “Life, Liberty,...
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Authority, Rights, and Responsibilities
This session features Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School) on “Can the Modern Human Rights Project Be Saved?” and Patrizia Giunti (University of Florence) on “The...
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