Notre Dame Magazine

05/29/2026

Photo of the Week: Hoofing It
📸: Michael Caterina

05/28/2026

Faith in the American experiment persists, despite widespread anti-Catholic bias among those who enshrined freedom of religion:

Faith in the American experiment persists, despite widespread anti-Catholic bias among those who enshrined freedom of religion.

05/27/2026

“Was I hallucinating? Did that 12-year-old just pocket the body of Christ? For a second, the teacher in me thought, Oh no. The troublemaker in me thought, Oh yes. But Sister Yolanda’s hawk eyes had also spotted Henry mid-strum.”

When I was 25, I took a teaching job at a small Catholic school in a beautiful mountain town in northern Arizona. I was in charge of the sixth-grade homeroom — “home” for a year to a motley band of 12-year-olds. Educator and author Harry Wong had mapped it all out in his book that was like…

05/26/2026

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, read about Notre Dame’s first Asian graduates, who earned their degrees 120 years ago:

Asian Pacific Alumni of Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s first Asian graduates earned their degrees 120 years ago.

05/26/2026

In Medora, Indiana, a remote town of 650 people, Notre Dame's Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program opens a door to a world of opportunities for students in the tiny local school, Abigail Pesta ’91 reports:

How a Notre Dame initiative helps a tiny Indiana school advance its students’ aspirations

05/22/2026

Photo of the Week: An Irish Goodbye
📸: Michael Caterina

05/21/2026

“America is at a crossroads. We risk undoing 300 years of development.”

Read the story:

As I carry my passport for proof of citizenship, I fear we’re squandering our national inheritance.

05/21/2026

It's time, ND young alumni! Get thinking and writing, then send us your essays. You have all summer to perfect your prose. The deadline for submissions is midnight on Monday, September 7, and yes — there's a cash prize!

Full details here:

Notre Dame Magazine’s 14th annual Young Alumni Essay Contest is accepting submissions. The magazine’s editors, who will judge entries for the 2026 Schaal Prize — named in honor of the contest’s founder, retired managing editor Carol Schaal ’91M.A. — are looking for original creative…

05/20/2026

What was the American Revolution? And why does how we answer matter?

A kaleidoscope of perspectives has defined our national origin story — in its time and yet today.

05/19/2026

Artemis II brought back thousands of new photos of the moon. Read how Notre Dame alumnae helped make it possible: https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/finding-moon-joy/

05/19/2026

In January, Michelle Krupa ’00 covered the devastating school shooting in Minneapolis: https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/a-sanctuary-shattered/.
Now, she’s continuing to tell survivors’ stories and what they want the world to understand about recovery and grief: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/05/us/minneapolis-annunciation-school-shooting-recovery/?utm_source=cnn_Five+Things+for+Sunday%2C+May+17%2C+2026&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=%2BJgf%2BLsomzlhlbhXxz%2FUt4uaMeykrYGjt1BmBzQkMJA%3D&bt_ts=1779022914465

After the evil visited on students and families during a school Mass, a close-knit parish community looks to its members for the light of hope and healing.