Protecting Notre Dame's Catholic ID

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Some concerned alumni at the University of Notre Dame have started Project Sycamore to spread information about the endangered Catholic identity of Our Lady’s University and to call for change.

There’s a lot of pertinent info on the site for anyone who wants to know the situation on campus here. I think it’s a good resource, especially for people who think there’s no hope for ND. We need prayers and thoughtful support like this to continue to be the university we are called to be.

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This is great. I will forward this to a member of my family who graduated in 2003. He was disappointed in the direction Notre Dame was taking. If this projest can influence Alumni donations it will be heard loud and clear. I found the graph on the faculty interesting.
 
Doesn’t the Congregation of the Holy Cross sponsor Notre Dame? Isn’t it predominately their responsibility to take leadership in continuing the Catholic identity?
 
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Doesn’t the Congregation of the Holy Cross sponsor Notre Dame? Isn’t it predominately their responsibility to take leadership in continuing the Catholic identity?
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I mean, of course ND’s administration, made up of both Holy Cross priests and laypeople, must be the force behind preserving the Catholic identity of the university. But if you look at the website, you’ll learn about our ‘dialogue’ in the last year or so about ‘academic freedom and Catholic character,’ especially regarding the play the V-Monologues and the Queer Film Festival on campus. That ‘dialogue’ is taking place among Fr. Jenkins, the president of the university, the students here (who are not all Catholic, nor orthodox at that), the faculty (who have become decreasingly Catholic over time), and the alumni and donors who care about ND’s catholic identity.

The Sycamore Project was started to be a voice for concerned alumni, who are outside the university but nonetheless want to show that they don’t approve at all of the policies here and would like for ND to cling more closely to Catholic teaching. It’s really a good source of information and influence in opposition to the secularization which is gradually taking place here–secularization which the CSC-led administration has allowed to take place. I thought some people on this forum, especially those continuously slamming the university for its positions, would like to know about it.
 
Notre Dame is a good university, but the only thing it seems truly serious about is the success of its football team. The most frequent observation about faithful alumni is how they will drive down from Chicago for football games.
 
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