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Vol XXXIV No. 62

Thursday, November 30, 2000

  Commentaries

Racism in the United States
Todd David Whitmore
The Common Good

This January, Kathleen Maas Weigert, who has been a fixture and inspiration at Notre Dame for many years through the Center for Social Concern and other avenues, leaves to become the Director for the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Michael Jordan
athlete

"I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish." ... [more]
Will the real President-Elect please stand up?
Amy Schill
Dazed and Confused

Can you believe this mess? It's a week after Thanksgiving and well, we kind of have a new president but not really because Gore is suing everyone he sees including Mrs. Betty Friedheim of Saginaw, Mich. and her poodle, Tiger. We're ... [more]
Refuting Rice's Column
Letters to the Editor

As a philosopher I operate with a simpler set of intellectual resources than Law Professor Charles Rice brings to bear upon the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. I hope I am not unqualified to enter the local conversation about the ... [more]
Keeping the pants on priests
Letters to the Editor

I am writing in response to Maureen Smithe's article on the ordination of women in order to give a more clear account of the Church's teaching on this subject. In John Paul II's encyclical "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis" (On reserving priestly ordination to ... [more]


Inside Column
PBS 2000
Kelly Hager
Copy Editor

The familiar music, the little model trees, the sudden camera shot to the porch, and then to the inside of an unopened door. A jump back into the 60's. A step back into my childhood. "It's a beautiful day in the ... [more]


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