Notre Dame Magazine

06/12/2025

"In November 2016, my mother asked me what I would do to stop it. She had raised me to fight for those who couldn’t fight for themselves, and this was a fight I needed to do something about, she told me. That’s when I decided that I would."

On the front lines of the opioid crisis

06/11/2025

“As we started to look at our options and realized that there weren’t many, it’s one of those days you look in the mirror and say, maybe we’ve got to do something.”

How one family created a homestead where people with autism live with purpose and belonging

06/10/2025

Read the Letters to the Editor for our Spring issue and see what your fellow classmates have to say:

The letters we publish here are edited for space and are representative of those we receive. We print only those letters referring to an article in the most recent edition of the magazine, not those responding to letters or commenting on issues not addressed in the recent edition.

06/09/2025

"After four years as a student and 12 years working on campus, I concluded that Larry represented the best of this community. I have many reasons for saying this, but above all it was his love — of his students, of the institution and especially of family."

Larry Cunningham, a beloved and distinguished theology professor and a guy who was just fun to be with, died February 20 at age 89. I personally feel a great loss, but also feel for what the University has lost. After four years as a student and 12 late-career years working on campus, I concluded…

06/06/2025

Photo of the Week: A Site to Behold

By Michael Caterina

06/05/2025

"And this was why I found the book so meaningful. It both demonstrates and invites readers into the joys and difficulties of the prayerful practice of solitude."

Read Tom Montgomery Fate's essay on "An Island to Myself" by Michael McGregor:

I grew up in a small Iowa town. So, after high school, when I went away to the big university, I was a bit overwhelmed. “Iowa City”: The two words just never seemed to go together. …

06/04/2025

"I fled my childhood home as soon as I could. It had become for me a place of near-mythical proportion, and I could not bear to live there anymore. My older sister stayed behind."

Read the story of loss and love:

Where I come from, along the cliffs of the Northern California coast, the ground that rises from the Pacific Ocean’s inhospitable waters is unstable. Here at the edge of the world — which is cold and unbelievably beautiful — sleeps the San Andreas fault. The specter of destruction runs like a ...

06/03/2025

Social media use has soared in recent years, but there are few regulations to control it. The result is polarization, distrust and the spread of misinformation. Read what this panel of experts had to say:

Panel discusses online misinformation and policy changes to strengthen democracy

06/02/2025

I’ve taught here for a year. Now? “You’re in charge,” the veteran principal extraordinaire said yesterday on her way out the door. “We’ve added a 7th and 8th grade,” she called over her shoulder, which means I need to find a teacher.

Read the story here:

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05/30/2025

Photo of the Week: Back in Town

📸: Matt Cashore ’94

05/29/2025

"What is sacredness?" Joseph Hope explores in his latest essay:

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05/28/2025

“What was it like to be the only girl?”

In this essay, Erin Buckley ’08 explores a question about the experiences that helped shape her childhood — and why it's not so easy to answer.

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