In Memoriam: Michael Novak
The Center for Ethics and Culture lost a great friend upon the death of author, journalist, diplomat, and philosopher Michael Novak on February 17, 2017. "Michael was a kind man and influential Catholic thinker…
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CEC Director Snead Profiles the Pro-Life Legacy of US Rep Henry Hyde
In a featured article in the January 2017 issue of Columbia Magazine, CEC Director Carter Snead profiled…
New Graduate Student Fellowship Honors CEC Founding Director David Solomon
As the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's 17th Annual Fall Conference came to a close, William P. and Hazel B. White Director O. Carter Snead announced the establishment of a $1.25 million endowed graduate…
CEC Director Snead on Pope Francis' Pro-Life Vision
Ave Maria University Students Join in CEC Fall Conference
Ave Maria University's "Academics at AMU" blog recently featured an article about the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture sponsoring 11 undergraduate students to…
CEC Fall Conference on Beauty & the Catholic Imagination
More than 750 scholars and artists will gather at the University of Notre Dame for the Center for Ethics and Culture’s interdisciplinary Fall Conference,…
Notre Dame to Award 2017 Evangelium Vitae Medal to Jerome Lejeune Foundation
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will award the 2017 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to the Jerome Lejeune Foundation at a Mass and Banquet on April 29, 2017.
“Professor…
CEC Cosponsors Annual Rimini Meeting
Carter Snead, Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, and Mary O'Callaghan, CEC Public Policy Fellow, delivered presentations on the theme "Disability as a Resource" at the 37th annual Meeting…
Director Snead's Featured CNN Op-Ed on VP Nominee Kaine
ND Vita Institute Heads West
On July 22 & 23, the Center for Ethics and Culture presented a special Notre Dame Vita Institute for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the invitation of Archbishop José H. Gomez. More than…
Public Policy Fellow: The Obama Administration Nullifies Conscience Rights
CEC Public Policy Fellow Richard Doerflinger published an op-ed decrying the Obama Administration for its failure to protect conscience rights for health care providers in accordance with its legal responsibility per the Weldon Amendment. Doerflinger writes,
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Director Snead's Response to Preliminary Injunction Blocking Implementation of Indiana HB 1337
Carter Snead, director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and professor in the Notre Dame Law School, issued the following response to Thursday's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt to issue a preliminary injunction against Indiana House Bill 1337, which prohibits…
Vita Institute 2016 Prepares Pro-Life Leaders
Current and future pro-life leaders from North America, South America, and Europe gathered on the campus of the University of Notre Dame for a week-long "pro-life boot camp" at the Center for Ethics and Culture's…
Director Snead's op-ed on SCOTUS' Texas HB2 decision featured by CNN
CNN has published an op-ed by CEC director Carter Snead in which he responds to the Supreme Court's decision striking down key provisions of Texas House Bill 2, which he had provided expert…
CEC Cosponsors Philosophy Workshop: "Aquinas on Politics"
The ND Center for Ethics and Culture is partnering with the Thomistic Institute and the Catholic & Dominican Institute to cosponsor the 6th Annual Philosophy…
CEC Director to Deliver Inaugural "Law & Justice Lecture" at University of Florence
On Monday, May 30, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Director and Professor of Law Carter Snead will deliver the inaugural…
CEC Cosponsors Seminar on "Economics and Catholic Social Thought"
Fifteen junior faculty and graduate students from international institutions are gathering at the University of Notre Dame May 23-25 for an intensive…
Disability and the Face of Mercy: Notre Dame Collaborates with Pontifical Council to Host Conference
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame, in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, are hosting a two-day colloquium on disability and mercy to take place in Rome, June 5–6, 2016. The colloquium will bring together theologians, scholars, historians, persons with disabilities, families, and intentional Christian communities for shared discussion about disability and the ways in which mercy, properly understood, requires friendship, communion, and a shared life with those who have disabilities.
Congratulations to Sorin Fellows of the Class of 2016
Congratulations to the 13 Sorin Fellows who graduated this weekend as members of the Class of 2016! Through their affiliation with the Center for Ethics and Culture, these…
Call for Papers: 17th Annual Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination
The Center for Ethics and Culture invites scholars and artists to submit proposals for our Fall Conference, entitled "You Are Beauty: Exploring…