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For Tradition-minded Catholics, Notre Dame Is Making a Comeback
BY William Murray Students and faculty note signs of a spiritual renewal at the famous Indiana campus
February 08-14, 1998 Issue 
At Notre Dame this year, Catholics can cheer more about what's happening on the campus rather than on the gridiron.
While the football team finished 7-6 and was soundly defeated by Louisiana State University in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., Dec. 28, scores of faculty members and... READ MORE
Portrait of Pascal, Humble Genius
BY Louise Perrotta
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart by Marvin O'Connell
(Eerdmans, 1997, 210 pp., $16)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a genius with the precociousness of a Mozart and the breadth of interest of a Da Vinci. He lived in a time and society vastly different from our own, yet his profound reflections on... READ MORE
Dancing to the Beat of Computer Designers
BY Russell Shaw
February 08-14, 1998 Issue
Trapped in The Net: The Unanticipated Consequence of Computerization by Gene Rochlin
(Princeton University Press, 1997, 293 pp., $29.95)
In July 1988, the USS Vincennes, a cruiser built to provide anti-aircraft missile defense for an aircraft carrier battle group, and controlled by the advanced... READ MORE
In 1997, Great Strides for School Choice
BY John Attarian Citing legislative and court victories around the country, the Blum Center for Parental Freedom in Education says movement is gathering momentum
January 18-24, 1998 Issue
According to the Virgil Blum Center for Parental Freedom in Education, 1997 was a banner year for advancing the cause of school choice. In fact, the organization describes it as “probably [their] most fruitful year.”
Named for Jesuit Father Virgil Blum (1913-1990), the Blum Center, founded in 1992... READ MORE
Catholic Universities in Crisis
BY Ralph McInerny Can truth find its way back to campus?
January 11-17, 1998 Issue
When John Henry Newman was named rector of the Catholic University of Ireland it was tantamount to being appointed emperor of Wonderland. No such university existed. It was still but a dream. The lectures that Newman gave in Dublin during 1852, which form the first part of The Idea of a University,... READ MORE
Ecclesiastical Degrees Unite International Church
BY Catherine Odell About a dozen U.S. universities offer the degrees which 'transcend national and cultural boundaries'
January 4-10, 1998 Issue
Though many American Catholics may never have heard of the so-called “pontifical” or “ecclesiastical” degrees annually awarded at a dozen of our institutions of higher education, these Church-sponsored academic degrees have had—and continue to have—a considerable impact on the formation of... READ MORE
Rejuvenating the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
BY James Sullivan The Erasmus Institute aims to extend Catholic thought beyond Church circles
December 14-20, 1997 Issue
Dr. James Turner, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, is also director of its fledgling Erasmus Institute, a research-oriented entity which aims to aid secular academic studies by making resources from the Catholic tradition available. “Augustine, Aquinas, even Lonergan ought to... READ MORE
On Campus, Bishops are ‘Part of the Solution’
BY James Sullivan In a pointed speech on the prelate's role in a Catholic university, Chicago's Archbishop Francis George asserts that faith and reason are not inevitable enemies
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue
WASHINGTON—Archbishop Francis George made the case for the necessary role of the bishop in Catholic higher education last month at Georgetown University's “Centered Pluralism” lecture series.
In his talk, “The Catholic Mission in Higher Education,” the archbishop of Chicago noted that despite his... READ MORE
Young Catholic Scholars Bring New Energy to Professional Organizatino
BY Catherine Odell
November 23-29,1997 Issue
PROFESSOR Gerry Bradley looks scarcely older than his students at the Notre Dame Law School. And in another scholarly arena, the tall, casually dressed 40-year-old whose memories can't summon up a pre-Vatican II Church, really does represent the “younger generation.” Bradley is president of the... READ MORE
Hefty Tuition Tab? Nothing a Little Tithing Can’t Remedy
BY Joseph Pronechen A Florida parish assures its youthful members the privilege of a Catholic education
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
THE AVERAGE tuition in a Catholic elementary school for the 1996-97 academic year was $1,303, according to the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA). NCEA spokeswoman Barbara Keebler explains that the gap in the actual $2,145 average per-pupil cost was bridged by endowments or with... READ MORE
Higher Ground
April 06, 1997 Issue
IN THIS ISSUE, Register coverage of the first Cardinal Bernardin Conference begins with excerpts from the keynote address by Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb. There are bound to be those who resent yet more coverage of an initiative they have little faith in. Moreover, they would add, the Common Ground... READ MORE
Values Clarification in Real-World Lab of the Classroom
BY Mark Gerson
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
Mark Gerson had a unique experience teaching at a tough inner-city Catholic school, St. Luke's in Jersey City, N.J., that largely serves Hispanic and African-American students. For one thing, Gerson is Jewish and hails from a privileged background. He found that the Catholic school model succeeds... READ MORE
Sometimes the Greatest Strides Are Made on the Basketball Court
BY Mark Gerson
March 16-22, 1997 Issue
Mark Gerson had a unique experience teaching at a tough inner-city Catholic school, St. Luke's in Jersey City, N.J., that largely serves Hispanic and African-American students. For one thing, Gerson is Jewish and hails from a privileged background. He found that the Catholic school model... READ MORE
When ‘Dry’ is Better
BY James Malerba Catholic campuses wrestling with problem drinking
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
The epidemic of drinking on college campuses has fueled more than its share of jokes in recent years.
This month it turned deadly.
A student at Southwest Texas State who had drunk himself unconscious was bludgeoned to death at a party where beer was plentiful and available to underage students,... READ MORE
Real Love Often Means Just Saying ‘No’
BY Nancy Guilfoy Valko
January 19-25, 1997 Issue
Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy by Kristen Luker (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996, 283 pp., $24.95)
IT WAS only a few years ago when, locked in curfew combat with a daughter experiencing the “frightful fourteens” (the “terrible twos” times 7), I decided that... READ MORE
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