Word: dame
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...president has chosen America’s iconic Catholic university, Notre Dame, for his inaugural commencement rostrum. Such a move, indeed, may seem fitting for the president’s political calculus. Both Indiana and Catholics swung from George W. Bush’s column in 2004 to support him last November, and this speech will no doubt continue the president’s much-ballyhooed outreach to “faith-based” voters. From the perspective of the White House, the setting in South Bend is impeccable...
...Notre Dame has come under fire—and for good reason...
...most Catholic intellectuals—at least those not in open doctrinal rebellion—have written unfavorably of the fiasco. Unsurprisingly, conservatives still miffed about November’s results, which include perhaps a majority of the practicing and churchgoing faithful, have been especially harsh on Notre Dame...
...support [for] all of his positions.” And Douglas W. Kmiec, Obama’s most ostentatious Catholic booster during the election, panegyrized the President as a real “fightin’ Irish,” like Notre Dame, “when it comes to working for social justice.” American Catholic laymen on the right and left will continue to disagree, no doubt, on which political issues—abortion or immigration reform, stem-cell research or education—are most salient...
Despite having a young squad, the women’s fencing unit rose to the occasion to help lift the Crimson to its fifth-place finish. As a team, the Crimson finished with 116 victories, only falling short to national champion Penn State (195), Notre Dame (182), Ohio State (166), and Columbia...