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Notre Dame to Award 2027 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne

Author: Kenneth Hallenius

Nun with rosary at bedside of elderly woman.

The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to announce that the sixteenth annual Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, the nation’s most important award for heroes of the pro-life movement, will be awarded to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. The medal will be presented to the mother superior, Mother Marie Edward, O.P., on behalf of the Sisters at a special Mass and dinner at the University of Notre Dame on Saturday, April 24, 2027.

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Sorin Fellows Make Pilgrimage to Wisconsin Shrines

Author: Shea Nowicki

A group of students stands in front of a brick chapel with a cross on top.

Made possible through the generosity of friends of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, a September 5–6 pilgrimage brought 36 undergraduate and graduate members of the Center’s Sorin Fellows student formation program to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wisconsin, and the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere before the Notre Dame–Wisconsin football game at Lambeau Field.

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