Notre Dame Magazine

Notre Dame Magazine is a quarterly publication created by the University of Notre Dame, with a circulation of 170,000, including 137,000 alumni. This magazine highlights events and happenings at the university, shares insights on institutional trends and campus changes, and celebrates the people, history, and academic achievements of Notre Dame. Readers can find news about alumni and updates from the Alumni Association within its pages. Additionally, the magazine offers a continuing education segment. Each issue features in-depth articles and essays that explore various topics, including current events, societal issues, the arts and sciences, business, technology, family matters, and topics related to the Catholic Church. While covering a wide range of subjects typical of any university, Notre Dame Magazine places a strong emphasis on the moral, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of these discussions, reflecting the values of the institution.

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Spring 2025 | 2025 | Issues | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | John Rosengren |Michelle McDaniel

Out of Practice by Kenneth L. Woodward ’57 With each generation since the baby boomers, traditional religion in the United States has fallen further from grace. Why? Ask sociologist Christian Smith. The Truth Sets Them Free by John Rosengren Successful corporate litigator Charlie Weiss ’68J.D. finds fulfillment giving voice to the innocent. Flag Bearers by Michelle Cuneo Two Nicaraguans at Notre Dame carry on a courageous fight for justice in their homeland.
Department of Corrections | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | John Rosengren

The University of Notre Dame’s Exoneration Justice Clinic wants to remedy problems in the criminal justice system. Since 2020, the clinic has given Notre Dame students real-world legal experience addressing one of system’s gravest failures: wrongful convictions.
Building Hope | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | Michelle McDaniel

For the first 15 months of his life, Benjamin Mason seemed like any other toddler — talking, laughing and eager to explore the world around him. He could say a dozen words, including “Mommy” and “Daddy.”Then something changed. At 16 months, Ben started to get ear infections. He stopped laughing and grew distant. When he wasn’t crying, his face was expressionless.
Flag Bearers | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | Michelle McDaniel

Fourteen-year-old Maria Fernanda Zamora was marching down the Carretera a Masaya, one of the main highways leading into Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It was April 18, 2018, and the road was packed with children and senior citizens, men and women, the wealthy and the poor, all protesting recent decisions by the Nicaraguan government.
The Truth Sets Them Free | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | John Rosengren

In 2006, Charlie Weiss ’68J.D. took a phone call from a fellow member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, asking Weiss to represent a man who had served more than 12 years in prison for killing a woman he said he had never met.
Questionnaire: Paul Farrell Jr. ’94 | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

3 weeks ago | magazine.nd.edu | Michelle McDaniel

Lawyer Paul Farrell Jr. ’94 filed one of the first public nuisance lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors in 2016. His client? His hometown of Huntington, West Virginia, which was devastated by the opioid epidemic.
What I’m Reading: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Elisabeth Tova Bailey | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

2 months ago | magazine.nd.edu | George Spencer

Aesop and the Brothers Grimm would have loved The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. For two decades, its author, Elisabeth Tova Bailey, suffered from withering maladies — chronic fatigue syndrome and an acquired mitochondrial disease that paralyzed her skeletal muscles. A refugee from her farmhouse, she lived in a studio apartment where a caretaker and loved ones tended to her needs. She could barely lift her head.
Moses Bunn Goes Home | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

Jan 7, 2025 | magazine.nd.edu | Colleen Shaddox

Cleaning out the 64 square feet that Moses Bunn called home, we didn’t find much to flesh out an obituary: a bartender’s license, an ID badge from a stint as a security guard, but nothing in the way of family photos or personal letters. He’d just gotten a copy of his birth certificate. He was exactly as old as we’d guessed: 50. He was born in Orange, California, in 1974 to Larry and Myralene Shields Bunn.
The Handyman Can | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

Jan 7, 2025 | magazine.nd.edu | Mel Livatino

In the home of my youth there was no clear line between being a man and being able to repair the house you lived in and the car you drove. I was 9 when we bought our first house, and from that day till now, 75 years later, I have never stopped living under the fear of not being man enough to repair my own house or car. Though the weight of that fear is always silently pressing down, I notice it only when something goes wrong or I remember something going wrong that I couldn’t take care of myself.
Questionnaire: Elise Matich ’06 | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

Jan 7, 2025 | magazine.nd.edu | Michelle McDaniel

In her award-winning children’s book, Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses, Elise Matich ’06 weaves a narrative that celebrates the unsung craftswomen who handmade thermal insulation blankets for the space shuttles out of materials like heat-resistant plastic, Dacron mesh and a quilted silica fabric.