October 25, 2021
On Saturday, October 30, 2021, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM, authors Nancy Cavadini and Cecilia Davis Cunningham will sign copies of their book Stories in Lightat the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. The book is written for all who visit Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart and for readers everywhere who want to know more about the rich history and […]
October 12, 2021
First commemorated by the University of Notre Dame community in the early 1840s, Founders’ Day was an annual celebration tied to the Feast of Edward the Confessor, Patron Saint of Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C. While the tradition fell by the wayside over the years, this October 12-13, 2021, the University is reviving the celebration of […]
September 21, 2021
On Friday October 1, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM, Greg Bourke (ND ’82) will sign copies of his new memoir Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. The book provides an illuminating account that anyone, no matter their ideological orientation, can read for insight, and it will […]
September 14, 2021
On Saturday, September 18, 2021, from 9:30 to 11:00am, Thomas E. Blantz, C.S.C., will sign copies of his book The University of Notre Dame: A History, at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. This popular book is written for a broad readership, and will be of special interest to alumni, faculty, students, friends of the university, and fans of […]
September 7, 2021
On Friday, September 10, 2021, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, Notre Dame archivist and historian Father James T. Connelly, C.S.C, will sign copies of his book The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. The book is written for readers interested in the history of the University of Notre Dame […]
December 18, 2020
When James T. Connelly, C.S.C., was asked to research and write this book in 1982 by the then superior general of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Fr. Thomas Barrosse, Connelly was told that it would only be a matter of synthesizing some books and articles already in print. Father Connelly took him at his word, but when […]
December 16, 2020
In 1837, Basile Moreau, C.S.C., founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (C.S.C.), a community of Catholic priests and brothers, to minister to and educate the people of France devastated by the French Revolution. During the centuries that followed, the Congregation expanded its mission around the globe to educate and evangelize, including the establishment in 1842 […]
December 2, 2020
James T. Connelly, C.S.C., Congregational archivist for the Congregation of Holy Cross, is the author of The University of Portland: A Century of Teaching, Faith, and Service and Basile Moreau and the Congregation of Holy Cross, and editor of many more books, including The Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac by Edward Sorin, C.S.C. (University […]
October 14, 2020
The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Father Thomas Blantz’s monumental history The University of Notre Dame (August 2020), which chronicles the story of the renowned Catholic university’s growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in northern Indiana to […]
August 12, 2020
Thomas Blantz’s monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university’s growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in the wilds of northern Indiana to the acclaimed undergraduate and research institution it became by the early twenty-first […]
