Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture

10/23/2026

Last month, we cohosted a panel discussion about the theological significance of consecration a few days before the University of Notre Dame was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at a special Mass in the Basilica. John Cavadini, Jennifer Newsome Martin, Anthony Pagliarini, and Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C. all shared marvelous insights with a standing-room-only audience. The recording of the panel will soon be available!

Thanks to McGrath Institute for Church Life and the Department of Theology for their cosponsorship! All photos by Peter Ringenberg.

10/20/2026

Enjoy this gallery of pics from our tailgate before the Rice game earlier this season. It's always a delight to welcome so many friends for fellowship and fun!

10/15/2026

On November 12, Msgr. John Paul Kimes, professor at Notre Dame Law School and the dCEC's Raymond of Peñafort Fellow in Canon Law, will moderate a discussion hosted by the Pontifical University of Santa Croce on clerical sexual abuse, observing the 25th anniversary of Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela.

10/13/2026

Paul Scherz, Our Lady of Guadalupe College Professor of Theology and a dCEC Mission Fellow, edited an important new book on humanity and AI that is being published by the Vatican Dicastery for Culture & Education's AI Research Group. We were pleased to host the working group that produced this volume. Join us today, 10/13 at 5PM, for the book launch! (And learn more about the working group's meeting here: https://ethicscenter.nd.edu/news/de-nicola-center-hosts-plenary-session-of-vatican-ai-working-group/

Join us on Tuesday, October 13, for a book launch of Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

This book is the culmination of research by the AI Research Group for the Center for Digital Culture of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See. Notre Dame theologian and ND-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Program Chair Paul Scherz served as the editor; Heather Foucault-Camm, program director of our Science & Religion Initiative, was a contributing author.

The event will commence at 5:00 p.m. in the Scholar's Lounge of the Hesburgh Library.

All are welcome!

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Notre Dame Theology Department

Dicastery for Culture and Education

Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture

Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good

10/09/2026

A blessed feast of Our Lady of Champion! Last month, we took our Sorin Fellows on pilgrimage to visit and pray at the USA's only approved Marian apparition site, where Our Lady appeared to Ven. Adele Brice three times in 1859.

10/08/2026

New podcast alert! Ethics & Culture Cast 94 is a delightful chat with Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum and founding member of chart-topping bluegrass band The Hillbilly Thomists. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever fine podcasts are given away!

10/07/2026

Attention friends in Dallas, TX! dCEC director Jennifer Newsome Martin will deliver the annual Hesburgh Lecture on October 15, speaking on "The Vocation of Mind and Soul: Newman, MacIntyre, and the Promise of Catholic Higher Education." Details: https://dallas.undclub.org/events/293887

10/06/2026

Pics from the concluding day of our Fall Conference for your edification!