Pilgrim’s Path Autumn 2009

Editor's note: Divining Rod
Features
The Holy Moment
The world’s sacred corners bring epiphany and peace to those looking for a retreat as well as those ambushed at the intersection of place and wonder.
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Defending Sacred Places
“Indigenous people around the world face an uphill battle in protecting their holy places.”
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The Teachings of Rome
Notre Dame students go to the Eternal City to learn what blend of space, grace and architecture might evoke the divine in the design of human habitation.
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Sacramental Sites
“A Catholic sense of place is rooted in the sacramental nature of the religion.”
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Notre Dame’s Other Dimension
Father Bob Austgen, CSC, sees hidden meanings in how the Notre Dame campus is designed.
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Believing Is Seeing
Understanding the Catholic imagination means learning to look at the world through an uncommon lens and finding there a deep and numinous terrain.
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The Careful Convert
You’d expect that a physicist, who spent a lifetime examining the universe, would rigorously test the faith when his time came. The surprise was that he may have had an eye on God all along.
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A Defense of My Life’s Vocation
How does one explain — especially in this utilitarian age and with today’s economy — the desire to join the academy, devote one’s life to the liberal arts, teach philosophy to undergrads and debate the meaning of life?
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Lifelong Friend
When a Colorado judge and ’79 grad was desperate for a kidney, the national search turned up his former Flanner Hall roommate. Could he help?
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University News
The dust is off a priceless resource
Nieuwland’s own: Journal traces century of scholarly evolution
All the campus a stage
Fighting . . . for unborn human life
A great bookie, a center found
Scaring the clan across the way
Haunt thee, Notre Dame?
Echoes: As Notre Dame as football, Mother’s Day and community service
Seen and heard
Expeditions
Water on the moon
Curing arthritis with fat
Why we look away
Jet lag gene
Letters
Letter from campus
Letters to the editor from print issue
Web extra letters about commencement
Web extra letters to the editor
Café Arts
Setting the stage for success
Words of Notre Dame
Café choice
Alumni
Reunion, Reflection, Renewal
Man in motion
Domers in the news
Deaths of ND alumni