Family Theater Productions, founded in 1947 by Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., serves families using mass media to entertain, inspire, and educate families.  Recently, the ministry announced that they are refocusing their resources to better position their mission in their service to families. The significant change in the organization’s mission will be the transitioning of the Angelus Student Film Festival to new sponsors.  Read More

A conference at the University of Notre Dame next week (Feb. 5 to 8) will bring together Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Buddhists for four days to tell the stories of particularly admirable men and women from their respective faiths and traditions.

“Stories of Practical Holiness: An Exercise in Interreligious Understanding,” convened by the Institute for Church Life (ICL), will include accounts of martyred Trappist monks; of the asceticism and enlightenment of Dharma masters, Buddhist nuns and Sikh luminaries; of reconciling Israeli Jews and dispossessed Palestinians; and of a contemporary Muslim religious healer. Read More

The Catholic Church celebrates World Day for Consecrated Life on Thursday, February 2, and will be observed on Sunday, February 5, 2012, in parishes in order to highlight the gift of consecrated persons for the whole Church. Read More

For the twelfth year in a row, the University of Notre Dame has placed on the Peace Corps’ list of top universities nationwide producing Peace Corps volunteers, and its rank is steadily rising.

This year, with 35 alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, Notre Dame moves up to the No. 10 spot among medium-sized universities (with between 5,001 and 15,000 undergraduates), from last year’s No. 18 ranking with 25 volunteers in service. In 2011, Notre Dame moved up to No. 18 from the 2010 No. 23 spot. Since Peace Corps was founded in 1961, 858 Notre Dame alumni have served in Peace Corps. Read More

Friday, Jan. 20 was the annual celebration of the life of Congregation of Holy Cross founder, Blessed Basil Moreau.

United States Province's colleges and universities took time to mark this joyous occasion by holding Masses and recognizing their lay collaborators who work to uphold their institutions’ Catholic and Holy Cross traditions. All four schools used the opportunity to formally recognize the recipients of the Spirit of Holy Cross Award, which were announced back on Sept. 15, 2011 (Our Lady of Sorrows, the Feast Day of the Congregation's special patroness). Read More

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, was among some 350 Notre Dame students, faculty and staff who traveled to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 23 to take part in the March for Life.

The annual march, which marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, has drawn increasing numbers of people over the years, and this year, the 39th anniversary of the decision, tens of thousands of marchers braved raw temeratures and intermittent rain to participate. Read More

As Holy Cross Family Ministries celebrates the anniversary of Servant of God Fr. Patrick Peyton’s birthday, January 9, they also celebrate the beginning of a special year. Fr. Peyton, C.S.C., founded Family Rosary in 1942 to bring families together to pray the Rosary daily in their homes just as his family had done. Read More

“t takes a village to raise a child." That is the wisdom of an African proverb, and there is a great truth in it. As the Roman Catholic Church celebrates Vocations Awareness Week January 9-16, I would like to propose a new, yet similar proverb about vocations to religious life and priesthood: "It takes the Church to raise a vocation." Read More

Easton, Mass. -- Nearly 100 people turned out for the Healing Mass on the Feast of St. André Bessette at The Father Peyton Center in North Easton, Mass., today. Read More

Today, in honor of and on the feast day of Holy Cross' first saint, Saint André Bessette, the Downtown Chapel unveils its new name and identity - Saint André Bessette Catholic Church. Read More