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Praying: a medley for Thanksgiving.
Learning to talk to God
“I want to thank God for the things we have and things we don’t have,” my daughter began at dinner one night. My husband and I looked at each other, intrigued. Lately our 5-year-old had begun to improvise grace before meals.
More..What Time Shall I Pray?
When my friend Barbara said she had a meeting later in the day that could result in a lucrative consulting project, my mother’s stock response rolled right off my tongue. “What time shall I pray?”
More..Who Was He?
For many Notre Dame alumni, a walk inevitably takes one to the Grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
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The tooth of the matter
BYThe total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
More..Another email: The sign of peace
BYA few years ago I stuck a peace sign on the back of my car. It was uncharacteristic of me. I’m not a bumper-sticker guy.
More..After 9/11 are we any safer?
BYOn September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
More..Ted Kennedy and abortion
BYThe day had started early at the Charles River Square townhouse, which was then the Boston home of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
More..Who Was He?
BYFor many Notre Dame alumni, a walk inevitably takes one to the Grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
More..What was the fuss about ‘death panels’?
BYThe political debate about health care reform turned ugly this past summer. Reforms would lead to “death panels,” several alleged, and government bureaucrats would be making decisions to “pull the plug on grandma.”
More..May I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
BYA chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
More..Forgotten Four excerpt
BYA chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
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Rss FeedAlumni
What was the fuss about ‘death panels’?
BYThe political debate about health care reform turned ugly this past summer. Reforms would lead to “death panels,” several alleged, and government bureaucrats would be making decisions to “pull the plug on grandma.”
More..Reunion, reflection, renewal
BYReunion 2009 offered Ed Stubbing ’64 much more than a chance to see some of his classmates, although he relished the opportunity. “Meeting classmates I hadn’t seen in 45 years was magnificent,” he says.
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25 things to do on a home football weekend
BYLight a candle and say a prayer at the Grotto, and leave double the suggested offering “just to be sure.”
More..The dust is off a priceless resource
BYThe story goes that Father Sorin obtained Notre Dame’s first natural history museum collection through an exchange with a physician for land Sorin held near Detroit.
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Learning to talk to God
BY“I want to thank God for the things we have and things we don’t have,” my daughter began at dinner one night. My husband and I looked at each other, intrigued. Lately our 5-year-old had begun to improvise grace before meals.
More..What Time Shall I Pray?
BYWhen my friend Barbara said she had a meeting later in the day that could result in a lucrative consulting project, my mother’s stock response rolled right off my tongue. “What time shall I pray?”
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A Family at War
BYNot since he was a baby, when I would walk with him at night to lull him to sleep, did I hug my only son as long as I hugged him that Saturday night.
More..Eye of the Needle
BYIn The Divine Comedy, Dante accompanies Virgil through purgatory and hell. Up until about a year ago, one could be forgiven for presuming only a smattering of bankers and financiers would be found in the inferno’s depths, somewhere between the second and fourth circles, where those overcome by lust and obsession with material goods are forever damned. Now it’s apparent some Wall Street professionals deserve to be sentenced to far worse.
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Jet lag gene
BYMost people feel exhausted and disoriented after they travel quickly across several time zones. Not a problem for Giles Duffield’s special mice.
More..Curing arthritis with fat
BYNearly one in three American adults suffers from some form of arthritis.
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Setting the stage for success
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It all began with music and admiration. Long before Ryan Cunningham ’02 was writing musicals, he was looking up to his older brothers, Kevin and Thomas, as they played piano and sax at the Saint Joseph Summer Theatre in Needham, Massachusetts. He knew he didn’t quite have their…
Words of Notre Dame
BYOther universities have histories. Notre Dame has legends.
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