The concept of persons is, historically, a vexed one. What is a person? Who counts as a person? What is owed to persons in justice, or friendship, or solidarity? How do persons stand in relation to ...

The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture’s Sorin Fellows Program is a community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and Holy ...

The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to host a lecture by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, as he reflects on the theme of the 2026–27 Notre Dame Forum, “What ...

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional students currently enrolled at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, or Holy Cross College are eligible to apply to the Sorin Fellows Program.

Frank O’Malley (1909–1974) was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to Irish immigrant parents. In Clinton, a milling town, his father supported his wife and five children by working as a weaver in a ...

The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture mourns the passing of its founding director, W. David Solomon, associate professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, on February 26, ...

The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture mourns the passing of Alasdair MacIntyre, permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the de Nicola Center and the Rev. John A. O’Brien senior ...

Statement from O. Carter Snead, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and director of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for ...

Join us for a 75-minute narrated tour of the National Gallery of Art (Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565), focusing on pieces that evoke the Culture of Life. Gather under the dome of the ...

O. Carter Snead, Charles E. Rice Professor of Law and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, will conclude his directorship of the de Nicola Center at ...

Join the de Nicola Center for a conversation with Notre Dame experts on the import of Pope Leo XIV’s highly anticipated first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On the Protection of Human Dignity in ...

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and Notre Dame Law School are pleased to announce the Polking Family Fellowship, a newly established program to recruit and provide funding for top law ...