A vacant Knights Inn in South Bend, Indiana, has been renovated as "Motels4Now," a project to offer immediate housing to persons experiencing homelessness. "It's only from a place of stability that you can work on other issues," its director said.
Timothy Busch and the Napa Institute's latest foray into Catholic higher education — funding a new lecture series at Notre Dame — is sparking a backlash from professors at the university, according to interviews with faculty over the past two months.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew told an audience at the University of Notre Dame that climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are interrelated crises. The dual crises raise "ultimate questions about life and death, sickness and suffering, as well as health care and justice," the patriarch said.
This body of water, which awakened my passion for sustainability, is choked by toxic algae blooms. Will my grandchildren play in her waters as I once did?
Phil Sakimoto, astrophysicist and director of Notre Dame's sustainability minor program, works on and off campus to address climate issues with Catholics. The former NASA officer shifted his gaze from the stars to the ground, focusing on Earth's needs.
Three Notre Dame University students organized a petition opposing a new Chick-fil-A restaurant on campus, citing concerns that included the company's history of donating to groups that "harm the LGBTQ community."
An increasing number of U.S. Catholic colleges and universities have required students to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus. But some major Catholic institutions have not, including the Catholic University of America.
Some two dozen Catholic colleges and universities have joined the growing list of institutions requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students returning to campus this fall, decisions that are not without controversy.
