In 2019, the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture celebrated its twentieth year of sharing the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition both on campus and in the public square. It was truly a banner year, beginning with the announcement on January 8 that Tony and Christie de Nicola had made a transformative gift of $10 million to endow the dCEC's work…
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to announce the recipient of the Polking Family Fellowship for the 2019–20 academic year. Michael Bradley, who earned his Bachelor of Arts and a subsequent Master's in Theological Studies at Notre Dame, has returned to campus to begin studies at Notre Dame Law School, joining existing Polking Fellows Hope Steffensen (3L) and Aly Cox (2L).…
In the Queen's Birthday Honours announced on June 10, 2019, John M. Finnis, a Permanent Senior Distinguished Research Fellow of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, was appointed as a Companion [AC] of the Order of Australia. The honor was granted with the citation…
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to invite abstract submissions for its 20th annual Fall Conference, November 7–9, 2019. This year's conference will explore the theme of friendship, from its ancient understanding as "the crown of life and the school of virtue" (C.S. Lewis) to the present day. What does it mean to make the good of another one's own, and what might be the implications of losing such an understanding of friendship in the modern world?…
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame is cohosting a pair of colloquia in Paris to take place May 27–29, 2019, at the Law School of the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité and the Centre d’études du Saulchoir. The conferences are part of an ongoing research collaboration on politics and Christianity, under the theme of “The Two Cities,” sponsored by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, and the Centre d’études du Saulchoir.…
The University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture presented the 2019 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Women’s Care Center, the largest network of pregnancy resource centers in the United States, at a Mass and dinner attended by more than 600 guests and friends on April 27, 2019. The celebration can be viewed on the Center's YouTube channel here…
His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, was the principal celebrant and homilist at the dedication Mass for the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame on April 26, 2019.
The University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture will present the 2019 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Women’s Care Center Foundation at a Mass and banquet on April 27. The medal presentation was live-streamed on the Center's YouTube channel. The Evangelium Vitae…
O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, will present the 16th Annual John Collins Harvey Lecture, hosted by the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University on April 25, 2019. His talk is entitled "Remembering the Body: Towards a More Human Public Bioethics," based on the themes of his book manuscript by the same name (under contract with Harvard University Press).…
Established in 1999, the Center for Ethics and Culture has long been part of the University of Notre Dame’s wider efforts to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research and dialogue, both on campus and in the wider public square.…
