Catholic Culture Series: Was Shakespeare Catholic? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, the master of the English language, is the subject
of this fall’s Catholic Culture Series. The series, which began last
Tuesday and which will run weekly until the middle of October, is
sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture and hopes to
address the question of Shakespeare’s Catholic ethos through
presentations by four eminent Shakespeare scholars.
- click for article (09-20-07)
Courage and Symbolism in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
THE NOTRE DAME Center for Ethics and Culture debuted its Fall 2007
lineup last week with a colloquium titled “Harry Potter and The King’s
Cross.” Three panelists presented on the seventh and final novel in
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows. The theme of the night was discovering Christianity and God in
Harry Potter. By the end of the question and answer period, a receptive
audience could see both God and Christianity in the novels and received
the tools to discover much more. - click for article (09-20-07)
Catholic Culture Series: FTT's Prof. Holland Has His Doubts About Catholic Shakespeare
WITH A SEPTEMBER 25th presentation by Notre Dame’s own resident
Shakespeare expert, Professor Peter Holland, the Notre Dame Center for
Ethics and Culture continued its series of lectures on the Bard’s
Catholicism. Holland presented a historical assessment of the evidence
against Shakespeare’s Catholicism, and included a scathing criticism of
those who assert that he was Catholic.
- click for article (10-04-07)
"Birth of A Nation" Back on the Big Screen
“THE BRINGING of the African to America planted the first seeds of disunion.”
Now,
with a catchy opening title card like that, white supremacist D.W.
Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” has got to be a movie worth seeing,
right? Not so fast, especially judging by the audible sighs and moans
of disgust from audience members in the theater of the DeBartolo
Performing Arts Center on Saturday. The entire three-hour-long film
continued, with people fidgeting uncomfortably in their seats through
depictions of the Civil War battle scenes and the ensuing
Reconstruction.
- click for article (10-04-07)
Catholic Culture Series: Law Prof. Finnis Reads Catholic Shakespeare
THE MISSION of the 2007 Catholic Culture Series is to decipher the
enigma and controversy surrounding Shakespeare’s Catholicism. Most
recently, Professor John Finnis, of the Notre Dame Law School and
Oxford University, soothed the campus, previously abuzz with unanswered
questions about the British Bard.
- click for article (10-04-07)
China: Now Manufacturing Landscapes
NEAR THE END of World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a letter that
“the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final
inconclusive chapter – leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many
bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant:
the Machines. As the servants of the Machines are becoming a privileged
class, the Machines are going to be enormously powerful. What’s their
next move?”
- click for article (10-29-07)
A Halloween Tale of Horror and High School Romance
THREE HALLOWEENS ago, while still a senior in high school, I was
scheduled to attend the school Halloween dance that night, and had
scored a date with a girl whom I had a hopeless, life-threatening crush
on. I’m sure you know the kind of crush I mean – if this mademoiselle
so much as glanced at me in the hallway, I would sink into a kind of
peculiarly adolescent trance, wherein I would attempt to appear aloof
by cursing at one of my friends, but somehow manage only to convey
utter gawkiness and exhibit symptoms of a debilitating jungle sickness.
The only force in my world more powerful than this timidity was the
peer pressure exerted by my heartless friends, who had more or less
forced me to ask this girl out – which action almost cost me a heart
attack.
- click for article (10-29-07)
Putting the "Ease" into "Deceased"
One Rover Editor's Summer as a Gravedigger
HALLOWEEN HAS, in the past, been a holiday that I traditionally loathe
because it draws one into nearer association with the dead than I
prefer. Now, all that has changed; I find myself actively seeking out
the companionship of dead people at every opportunity.
- click for article (10-29-07)
Bella Expected to Win Audiences
WITH ITS limited release in select theaters this past weekend, pro-life film Bella continues its journey towards reaching a wide public audience—a journey which began, in part, right here at Notre Dame.
- click for article (10-29-07)
Rover Face-off: Saints vs. Skanks
SAINTS
Halloween was once observed by pious
Catholics as the vigil of All Saints Day, the feast for the remembrance
of saints and martyrs. This holy day, however, has been perverted into
a pagan bacchanalia, a vile tool of Satan, which corrupts the minds of
our youth!
SKANKS
Let’s face it, Halloween lost any religious
significance a long time ago. You may insist on drudging up
anachronistic medieval customs associated with the Christian vigil of
All Saints Day, but even the most puritanical Catholic must admit that
it is a feast—a celebration. So grab that mullet wig or your patent
leather miniskirt and let’s party!
- click for article (10-29-07)
Asquith Ends Catholic Culture Series: The Dark Matter of Shakespeare
“PETER HOLLAND did me the compliment of criticizing my book,” Ms. Clare
Asquith controversially began the last lecture in the 2007 Catholic
Culture Series. Asquith, an English independent scholar and author of Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare,
further enlightened Domers about Shakespeare’s dalliance with
Catholicism in a talk on “Shakespeare’s Dark Matter” on October 9.
- click for article (10-29-07)
Diversity of Opinion: "Loyal Daughters and Sons" Examines Issues of Sexuality and Sexual Assault at Notre Dame
CANDID, OFTEN EXPLICIT, and replete with sexual humor, “Loyal Daughters
and Sons” took the stage in Washington Hall for five nights beginning
Monday, November 12. An adaptation of last year’s original work on
sexuality and sexual assault at Notre Dame, the play is a series of 29
monologues, skits, and interpretive dances which are based on
interviews with students.
- click for article (11-19-07)
MacIntyre Sheds Light on Why Philosophy Matters
ALTHOUGH CONSIDERED one of the most influential moral and political
philosophers of our age, Notre Dame’s own Professor Alasdair MacIntyre
found time to give a lecture on “Why Philosophy Matters” to the
artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, and of course, philosophers
of tomorrow. The well-attended talk was held in Keenan on November 15.
- click for article (11-19-07)
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