What Happened to Notre Dame?

Charles E. Rice is prof. emer. in the Law School, University of Notre Dame, and is author, among other works, of Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? and The Winning Side, both from St. Augustine's Press. He has long been a pro-life activist, and was a founding member and legal counsel to the New York Conservative Party.Alfred J. Freddoso, prof. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, is a renowned translator from medieval Latin, most recently Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law: The Complete Text, from St. Augustine's Press.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction by Alfred J. Freddoso xi1. Invitation and Reaction 12. The Justification: Abortion as Just Another Issue 93. The Justification: The Bishops’ Non-Mandate 184. The Obama Commencement 255. ND Response  346. Land O’Lakes 42 7. Autonomy at Notre Dame: “A Small Purdue with a Golden Dome”? 548. Autonomy at Notre Dame: The “Research University” 579. Autonomy at Notre Dame: A Catholic Faculty? 6210. Autonomy at Notre Dame: Academic Freedom? 6811. Autonomy at Notre Dame: The Politicization of Abortion 7612. The Magisterium: Why Notre Dame Needs It 9213. The Magisterium and the Dictatorship of Relativism 10314. The Magisterium: Protector of Conscience and Freedom 11015. God Is Love 11816. Of Human Life 12317. Love in Truth 13018. In Hope We Were Saved 13919. The Question of Truth: Can “Autonomy” Be Fixed? 143 20. Postscript: Notre Dame as a Lesson for Everyone 153Appendix: Talk for ND Response – Sunday, May 17, 2009 by Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, c.s.c. 156Endnotes  163Index 181