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Good Fridays w/Padre: Cross Your Heart
If you attended last weekend’s Blue-Gold Game, you experienced what we on campus experience on a daily basis: The Project. Most work stopped so fans could enter the Stadium. Otherwise, the sounds, the...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Bring It! (or not)
An errant flyer was slipped under my door recently. It was a series of lists from the Office of Housing, instructing incoming freshmen in “What to Bring to Campus.” I found this amusing, because the...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Sunday Services
I haven’t had to perform too many theological gymnastics in order to accept that we start this year’s Football March to Victory on a Sunday. Yes, it is The Lord’s Day. But you can go to Mass on...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Good Hunting
This is not a campfire story meant to scare children. It is true: By the year 1450, France had been devastated by the Hundred Years’ War. The English had laid waste to the country side, leaving the...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Lost in Translation
The Agricultural College of the State of Michigan is coming to town for a football game. Well, that was their first name; but they soon changed it to State Agricultural College. Realizing that this was...
View ArticleNew on YouTube: A Muddy Tie, Griese Goes Down & Father Lumpkin
Her Loyal Sons recently brought you a playlist of every Notre Dame game on YouTube. In the past 24 hours, users have uploaded footage from the Irish’s 1928 loss to Georgia Tech, its 1941 tie against...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: On Trial
For the 175th anniversary, they’re “retracing” my route from Vincennes to Notre Dame. I’m flattered…I guess. They’re doing it in late August – Indiana in late August. You know, dangerous heat, violent...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Unexpectations
What an unexpected year! No one should have been surprised that 2016 followed 2015; but the manner in which it followed was surprising: Not so much as night follows day, but more as a troop of rabid...
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Holy Saturdays w/Padre: Ara – A reflection of Grace
In Greek Epic, the great are given the epithet “Leader of Men.” Few in the now 175-year history of Notre Dame deserve to be called a Leader of Men more than Ara Parseghian. Surely his fame on the field...
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Sunday School w/Padre: Victory & Defeat
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” So said Edwin Markham, the poet. And as the Irish defeat yet another ranked opponent by more than 20 points, climbing yet...
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