Join us for a full day of instruction in the fundamentals of life issues with our world-renowned scholars in biology, philosophy, theology, and law. No prior knowledge of these disciplines is assumed or required; sessions are aimed at enthusiastic pro-lifers seeking to hone their skill and enhance their knowledge to better advance the Culture of Life.…
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.
“The End of Religious Freedom? Challenges from the Right, the Left, and Around the Globe” by Daniel Mark, Chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Daniel Mark is also a visiting research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, a visiting Tocqueville Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University.
Archbishop Warda is a leading international voice for the persecuted Christians of Northern Iraq and the chief administrator of pastoral care and relief services for nearly twenty thousand threatened Christian families in the region. This event is offered as part of the Under Caesar's Sword…
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Adam Seagrave (University of Missouri), and Peter Simpson (CUNY) will join author D. C. Schindler in a discussion of his book's critique of the modern notion of freedom. Cosponsored by the Constitutional Studies Minor at Notre Dame. Lunch will be provided beginning at noon, with the panel beginning at 12:30. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.…
Pope Paul VI's landmark 1968 encyclical explored the effects of then-new technologies on human reproduction, and reaffirmed the traditional Catholic anthropological teaching on the exclusive, permanent conjugal relationship of marriage as the fundamental building block of society. In the view of presenter Mary Eberstadt, Humanae Vitae…
Sarah Yaklic, director of the Grotto Network, joined the University in 2017 after five years as the director of digital media…
Join the World Religions World Church Area in the Notre Dame Department of Theology; the McGrath Institute for Church Life; and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study for a public lecture by renowned theologian Rev. Dr. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., entitled "St. Joseph in South India: When an 18th-Century Jesuit Retold the Story of the Holy Family."…
Join us for a free concert and conversation with the Sons of Bill, a Virginia roots-rock band featuring brothers Sam, Abe, and James Wilson. Influenced by their father Bill Wilson, a musician and professor of philosophical theology and Southern lit at UVA, the band's recent album Love And Logic…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is a co-sponsor of the annual Conference on Medicine & Religion. The 2018 conference (April 13–15) in St. Louis is entitled, "Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion." Registration is now open…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is a co-sponsor of the annual Conference on Medicine & Religion. The 2018 conference (April 13–15) in St. Louis is entitled, "Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion." Registration is now open…
The Center for Ethics and Culture is a co-sponsor of the annual Conference on Medicine & Religion. The 2018 conference (April 13–15) in St. Louis is entitled, "Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion." Registration is now open…
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America…
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The University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2018 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae…
A colloquium in collaboration with the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca, and the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. View the PDF of the poster here.…
A colloquium in collaboration with the Centre d'études du Saulchoir and the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. View the full PDF poster here.…
The #MeToo movement has generated widespread outrage over sexual harassment and the culture that condoned it. More broadly, it has prompted new questions about related harms to women and whether those harms share a common root in the sexual revolution.…
Now in its third year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and faculty in economics, finance, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought, starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory, firm and business ethics, wages, markets, globalization, poverty, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals, secondary sources, and relevant economics texts.…
The Center for Ethics and Culture, in concert with the Catholic and Dominican Institute at Mount Saint Mary College and the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies, is again co-sponsoring the 8th Annual Philosophy Workshop to take place June 14–17, 2018.…
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 1 (vs. Michigan) and September 29 (vs. Stanford). Join us on the lawn south of Geddes Hall for this family-friendly event. We'll see you there. No RSVP necessary. Go Irish!…
Saint Mary's College hosts the 2018 McMahon Aquinas Lecture, "The Poor, the Vulnerable, and the Common Good" by Cardinal Peter Turkson on September 11, 2018. The event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. During his years in the Roman Curia, he has also served as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and been a member of the Congregation for Catholic Education, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Turkson was born in western Ghana, and begain his episcopal career as Archbishop of Cape Coast.…
To kick off this year’s ND Forum, Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and champion of the integral relationship between faith and art, will be in dialogue with John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., and Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor, Susannah Monta (a member of the CEC's Faculty Advisory Committee…
“Soul and Barbed Wire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago’”, will take place at 4:00 p.m., Friday, September 21 at 1050 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls.
The lecture will be delivered by Daniel J. Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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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 1 (vs. Michigan) and September 29 (vs. Stanford). Join us on the lawn south of Geddes Hall for this family-friendly event. We'll see you there. No RSVP necessary. Go Irish!…
As a contribution to the Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame has convened a global panel of Synod delegates and young Catholics who will give personal reflections on the themes of the Synod in light of the Catholic Church’s positive offerings to the young people of the world, with a particular focus on the transcendentals of beauty, truth, and goodness.…
Join the Center for Ethics and Culture for a lecture by Congressman Dan Lipinski on remaining faithful while working in the world of public service. Known as a conservative and pro-life Democrat, Mr. Lipinski is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 3rd congressional district, a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, and the co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.…
What is the proper relationship between God, the human person, and the state? In a 1993 address, Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observed that, “having refused to recognize the unchanging Higher Power above us, we have filled that space with personal imperatives, and suddenly life has become a harrowing prospect indeed.” Twenty-five years after Solzhenitsyn’s address, and one hundred years after his birth, the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 19th Annual Fall Conference will consider how every human pursuit can be oriented toward higher powers and reflect on the true measures of social progress, the role of morality in law and politics, and the dynamics of liberty, dignity, self-sacrifice, and the good in public life.…
Every semester since Spring 2009, the Center has hosted 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. This semester's dinner will feature Professor Ernest Morrell, speaking on "Fighting for Life in the Digital Age: Media, Literacy, and the New Evangelization."…
It is now well-documented—if not well-publicized on this side of the Atlantic—that people on the spectrum have died by euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium and the Netherlands. In this colloquium, Dr. Michael Waddell will draw upon psychological and legal scholarship to examine ethical problems with euthanasia and assisted suicide for people on the spectrum, with a response from O. Carter Snead…
In several European countries, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia by lethal injection are being made available to psychiatric patients with non-terminal mental illnesses – commonly administered by their own treating psychiatrists. Canada now offers euthanasia by injection for patients who are not strictly terminally ill, and the nation is on the verge of making it available to those with psychiatric disorders only. This raises profound ethical questions, for psychiatrists in particular, who have a core ethos and skill set to prevent suicide, find alternative paths to a better future, and help patients cope with and even make meaning of suffering. …
