Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ
"Challenges to Moral
and Cultural Renewal"
Cardinal Dulles gave this talk to mark the Center's fifth anniversary on September 28, 2004.
Robert P. Casey
Untitled Address, 1995
This is a speech given by Governor Casey on the Notre Dame campus in 1995. Governor Casey was one of the members of our advisory board when we founded the Center, and we keep his name on the list as a memorial to his service to the pro-life cause in this country.
Alasdair MacIntyre
"The Only Vote Worth Casting
in November"
An opinion piece on the upcoming election by the Center's Permanent Senior Research Fellow Alasdair MacIntyre.
Ralph McInerny
"It Should Rhyme with 'Laugh':
Humor in Waugh"
Prof. McInerny gave this paper on the life and work of Evelyn Waugh on October 12, 2004, as part of the Center's 2004 Catholic Literature Lecture Series. Learn more about the series at its site.
Nathan Hatch
"Achievement and the Fear of Being
Average"
Dr. Hatch is the provost at the University of Notre Dame. He gave these remarks at the opening Mass for the 2004-2005 school year. In this short piece, he notes that although we often judge ourselves and others by standards of excellence in achievement, we must not forget that the human person is valuable not because of his or her accomplishments but because he or she is a child of God, made in His image.
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.
"Catholic
Faith and the Secular Academy"
Cardinal George suggests that the relationship between the faith and secular academy is complex. Those coming from a faith position are urged not only to respect the goal of truth which the academy pursues or to critique the fragmentation of knowledge in the academy, but also to confidently create "common vocabulary" that may be accepted for dealing with our public and global concerns.
John Haldane
"Thomistic
Ethics in America"
Professor Haldane is a member of the Center's advisory board and gave this piece as part of our lecture series last July. It was subsequently published in LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture and is available at that site both in HTML and facsimile verions. The article suggests that both advocates and opponents of the 'new natural law' make an unwarranted assumption about what it would be for values and requirements to be 'derivable' from statements of natural facts. Haldane attempts to negotiate a 'third way' that removes it from the charge of favoritism.
Ralph McInerny
"Chesterton at Notre Dame"
Professor Ralph McInerny gave the inaugural lecture for the "G. K. Chesterton Returns to Notre Dame" week of our first Catholic Literature Lecture Series. Learn more about the series at its site.
John P. O'Callaghan
"Untimely Ruminations on Faith and Politics" (HTML)
(PDF)
Michael Sherwin, O.P.
" The Third Millenium and the Philosophical Life "
(HTML) (PDF)
"Four
Challenges for Moral Theology in the New Century"
Fr. Michael Sherwin (PhD in Moral Theology from University of Notre Dame) poses four challenges to moral theologians and philosophers: the challenge of understanding history, the challenge of working out a viable philosophy of nature, the challenge of appropriating a renewed conception of grace, and the challenge of developing a spirituality proper to the "trade" of moral theology.
Bernard Williams
"Philosophy
as a Humanistic Discipline"
Professor Bernard Williams suggests that philosophy has more to gain from drawing on perspectival studies, especially history, than emulation of the hard sciences.
Jennie Bradley
Jennie's diary from World
Youth Day and reflections from other Notre
Dame students.
Jennie graduated summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy and theology from the University of Notre Dame in spring 2004. She spent three years of her undergraduate career working as the Center's undergraduate assistant.
