August 2005
ACE invigorates Catholic schools
By: Michael O. Garvey
According to an institutional commonplace, Notre Dame is a place where “the Catholic Church does her thinking,” but this year the University marks a 10th anniversary which agreeably demonstrates that its service to the Church is not always so passive. >
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Boning up on early Bronze Age
By: YaShekia Smalls
Make no bones about it: The people of the early Bronze Age had it pretty hard. >
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Garnett praises choice of Roberts
By: Michael O. Garvey
Notre Dame Law School’s Professor Richard W. Garnett, a former law clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, praised fellow former clerk Judge John G. Roberts, whom President George Bush announced as his nominee for the Supreme Court. >
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Evolution and Christianity
By: Dennis Brown
A renowned philosopher from the University of Notre Dame supports recent comments by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn that belief in evolution as accepted by some in science today may be incompatible with Christian beliefs. >
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Darwinism and Catholicism should be compatible
By: Gary Belovsky
As an evolutionary biologist who is Catholic, I am troubled when Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, an advisor to Pope Benedict XVI, claims that Neo-Darwinian evolution is contrary to Christian faith (New York Times July 7, 2005). Particularly disturbing is the cardinal’s disregard of overwhelming scientific evidence that supports Neo-Darwinian evolution and his dismissal of Pope John Paul’s acknowledgment (in a 1996 letter to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences) that evolution is not a hypothesis (untested proposition), but a theory (proposition tested many times over, never refuted and considered fact). If Cardinal Schönborn’s perspective became doctrine, no Catholic university could maintain a reputable biology or science program, because the vast majority of scientists acknowledge that overwhelming evidence supports Neo-Darwinian evolution—Notre Dame could no longer stand with Harvard, Stanford and other world-class institutions of learning. >
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AFL-CIO rift temporary, labor economist predicts
By: Susan Guibert
The withdrawal of more than 3 million Teamsters and service employees from the AFL-CIO – along with some $20 million in dues – will not fundamentally change labor economics, according to Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economics and policy studies at the University of Notre Dame. >
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Peace Studies Is The Focus Of Tajik Student Attending University of Notre Dame
By: Marsha James
Having a desire to help create peace in her homeland, Tajikistan, Zamira Yusufjonova decided to attend the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. >
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