More than 1,200 scholars, students, and guests from around the world registered to attend the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture’s 24th annual Fall Conference, “Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination.” The conference, which begins Thursday, October 31, and concludes on November 2, will feature more than 175 papers, panels, and performances across three days of conversation on the enduring and inexhaustible nature of the Catholic imagination.

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Gary A. Anderson, the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Thought at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Fellow at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, has been awarded a 2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. The academy conferred the prize Wednesday (Oct. 23) in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2025 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal—the nation’s most important award for heroes of the pro-life movement—to Anthony J. and Phyllis W. Lauinger of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a Mass and dinner on May 3, 2025, at the University of Notre Dame.

“Tony and Phyllis Lauinger have worked side-by-side for more than 60 years to defend the inherent equal dignity of all members of the human family, born and unborn,” said Jennifer Newsome Martin, John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies, associate professor in the Department of Theology, and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. “Through their professional efforts and personal witness, especially in their local community and in their home state of Oklahoma, Tony and Phyllis have consistently modeled the self-emptying love that the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal was created to honor and celebrate.”

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The de Nicola Center is a founding…

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