The Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to once again sponsor students, faculty, and staff from Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, and Holy Cross College to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Visit the Notre Dame Right to Life Club's Facebook event…
Watch the 17-minute documentary which won the "Audience Choice Award" at the 2017 Notre Dame Film Festival. Debajo de los árboles (Beneath the Trees), produced and directed by CEC Sorin Fellow Crystal Avila '17, tells the story of a Mexican immigrant's journey across the Arizona border, as recounted by Jesús Villanueva to his granddaughter. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Free.…
Join Bishop Rhoades to pray for persecuted Christians and see the new documentary on Christians' responses to persecution, Under Caesar's Sword.
5:15 PM Daily Mass, Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Celebrant: The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades
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Since 2002, the Center for Ethics and Culture has sponsored the Catholic Culture Series, a series of lectures focused on prominent Catholic figures in literature and the arts. Through these lectures, the Center helps expose Notre Dame undergraduate students—and the entire Notre Dame community—to the richness of our vast Catholic cultural heritage.…
Recalling African theology’s origins,
envisioning its 21st century mission
This conference will gather the world’s leading experts, scholars, and theologians to reflect upon the 20th…
Recalling African theology’s origins,
envisioning its 21st century mission
This conference will gather the world’s leading experts, scholars, and theologians to reflect upon the 20th…
Recalling African theology’s origins,
envisioning its 21st century mission
This conference will gather the world’s leading experts, scholars, and theologians to reflect upon the 20th…
Recalling African theology’s origins,
envisioning its 21st century mission
This conference will gather the world’s leading experts, scholars, and theologians to reflect upon the 20th…
We invite both theoretical and applied papers that address key questions about the common good: Is the common good still relevant today? Which conception of the common good best illuminates our understanding of politics, ethics, economics, and other social institutions? What arrangements in family life, civil society, and politics will best foster the common good? Submissions are welcome from the perspective of any discipline of social inquiry, including but not limited to: philosophy, theology, political science, sociology, economics, history, and law.
We invite both theoretical and applied papers that address key questions about the common good: Is the common good still relevant today? Which conception of the common good best illuminates our understanding of politics, ethics, economics, and other social institutions? What arrangements in family life, civil society, and politics will best foster the common good? Submissions are welcome from the perspective of any discipline of social inquiry, including but not limited to: philosophy, theology, political science, sociology, economics, history, and law.
We invite both theoretical and applied papers that address key questions about the common good: Is the common good still relevant today? Which conception of the common good best illuminates our understanding of politics, ethics, economics, and other social institutions? What arrangements in family life, civil society, and politics will best foster the common good? Submissions are welcome from the perspective of any discipline of social inquiry, including but not limited to: philosophy, theology, political science, sociology, economics, history, and law.
This one-day symposium will feature the launch of the report, In Response to Persecution, of the Under Caesar’s Sword Project.
How do Christians respond to persecution? How can the rest of the world exercise solidarity with them? This day-long public symposium will propose concrete recommendations for action in response to these questions. It will feature globally prominent speakers on religious freedom and leading scholars of global Christianity. A highlight will be the launch of the report, In Response to Persecution…
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2017 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Jerome Lejeune Foundation on April 29, 2017.
The Jerome Lejeune Foundation was established in 1996 to continue the work of its saintly namesake, Professor Jerome Lejeune, by supporting groundbreaking research, advocacy, and healthcare for those with intellectual disabilities. With branches in Paris, Philadelphia, Madrid, and Dubai, the Foundation is the largest private funder of research into genetic therapies in the world. In addition to funding ethically-conducted research, the Foundation provides direct health care and education, and advocates for legal protections for persons with disabilities.…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is co-hosting a colloquium "On Secularization" at the Law School of the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, May 12–13, 2017. The conference marks the beginning of a new research collaboration on Christianity and the West, organized in collaboration with the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and the Centre d’études du Saulchoir.…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is co-hosting a colloquium "On Secularization" at the Law School of the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, May 12–13, 2017. The conference marks the beginning of a new research collaboration on Christianity and the West, organized in collaboration with the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and the Centre d’études du Saulchoir.…
Please join us to commemorate the extraordinary career and scholarship of Catherine Zuckert, the Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, who is retiring from the university at the end of this academic year. The conference will celebrate Professor Zuckert’s contributions to three areas of political philosophy on which her scholarship has focused. Each panel will engage her major works in these areas, addressing the questions that those works raise and the ways in which they have facilitated and advanced the study of political philosophy. Panels will feature outside scholars, as well as colleagues from the University of Notre Dame and former graduate students. Professor Zuckert will offer a response to each panel.…
Please join us to commemorate the extraordinary career and scholarship of Catherine Zuckert, the Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, who is retiring from the university at the end of this academic year. The conference will celebrate Professor Zuckert’s contributions to three areas of political philosophy on which her scholarship has focused. Each panel will engage her major works in these areas, addressing the questions that those works raise and the ways in which they have facilitated and advanced the study of political philosophy. Panels will feature outside scholars, as well as colleagues from the University of Notre Dame and former graduate students. Professor Zuckert will offer a response to each panel.…
Save the date to join us for food, fellowship, and fun at a Center for Ethics and Culture Tailgate! We'll cheer on the Irish before two home games this year: September 9 (vs. Georgia) and October 21 (vs. USC). Join us on the lawn south of Geddes Hall for this family-friendly event. We'll see you there. Go Irish!…
Fr. Julián Carrón, author of Disarming Beauty, will be the featured guest at a discussion about his bestselling book. The roundtable will feature Ross Douthat…
Save the date to join us for food, fellowship, and fun at a Center for Ethics and Culture Tailgate! We'll cheer on the Irish before two home games this year: September 9 (vs. Georgia) and October 21 (vs. USC). Join us on the lawn south of Geddes Hall for this family-friendly event. We'll see you there. Go Irish!…
Author and CEC Permanent Research Fellow George Weigel speaks about his experiences accompanying and reflecting on Saint John Paul II. Book signing and reception to follow in the Hesburgh Library's Scholars Lounge. Part of the CEC's Catholic Culture Series…
Each year on the campus of Notre Dame, the Center hosts its interdisciplinary Fall Conference, the most important venue for truly fruitful dialogue and exchange among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy. The Conference annually attracts more than eight hundred participants and features nearly one hundred paper presentations in disciplines ranging from philosophy, theology, political theory, and law to history, economics, science, and the arts. Recent past speakers include: Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Finnis, Mary Ann Glendon, Rémi Brague, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.…
Each year on the campus of Notre Dame, the Center hosts its interdisciplinary Fall Conference, the most important venue for truly fruitful dialogue and exchange among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy. The Conference annually attracts more than eight hundred participants and features nearly one hundred paper presentations in disciplines ranging from philosophy, theology, political theory, and law to history, economics, science, and the arts. Recent past speakers include: Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Finnis, Mary Ann Glendon, Rémi Brague, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.…
Each year on the campus of Notre Dame, the Center hosts its interdisciplinary Fall Conference, the most important venue for truly fruitful dialogue and exchange among the world's leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, on pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy. The Conference annually attracts more than eight hundred participants and features nearly one hundred paper presentations in disciplines ranging from philosophy, theology, political theory, and law to history, economics, science, and the arts. Recent past speakers include: Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Finnis, Mary Ann Glendon, Rémi Brague, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.…
Celebrating the vital pairing of faith and science in answering the grand challenges that affect our neighbors close to home, as well as those around the world.
Gold Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
5:15 P.M.
PRESIDER: Rev. Terrence P. Ehrman, C.S.C., Assistant Director, Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing
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Every semester since Spring 2009, the Center has hosted the Bread of Life dinner discussions. The event is designed to provide an opportunity for Notre Dame undergraduates and faculty to meet, reflect on, and discuss their attitudes toward beginning-of-life issues. Bread of Life is especially meant to attract students who might not already be strongly committed to the Church’s teachings on these issues but who are open to exploring them. The format for the evening is a brief fifteen-minute reflection offered by a professor on a topic related to beginning-of-life ethical issues. Following the reflection, professors, university staff, and students discuss the issue together and reflect on their own attitudes toward life issues over dinner. All participants receive a copy of Evangelium Vitae…
