By Anthony Barich National Reporter The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Nursing in Fremantle has become the first university in WA to introduce a Palliative Care Major at undergraduate level. Selma Alliex While Curtin University has a weekly two hour palliative care lecture as part of its Nursing and Midwifery course and Edith Cowan University has post-gradu...

The University of Notre Dame Australia is set to restructure its teaching of philosophy and ethics.     Associate Prof Sandra Lynch with Bishop Anthony Fisher OP.   By Anthony Barich National Reporter The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is set to adjust its curriculum around the country to improve the teaching of ethics and philosop...

The leadership may have failed her but one pro-life Notre Dame student, Michelle Romeu, still loves the place. s a student at the University of Notre Dame, I can safely say that the past few months have been pretty crazy. On campus we read the articles. We watched the YouTube videos. We drove past the protesters at our gates and we watched three different planes fly over with ban...

Notre Dame’s obsessive pursuit of prestige could send it down to Davey Jones locker. By Omar O'Shaugnessy  The University of Notre Dame is one of the oldest and most prestigious Catholic universities in the US. Even non-Americans have heard of the Fighting Irish, its legendary football team which inspired a famous film featuring a young Ronald Reagan. The team&rsqu...

Rejection of Notre Dame honour by US’s leading layperson a slap in the face for beleaguered university.                                        In an April 27 letter to Holy Cross Fathe...

Reaction continues to spread through the US at Catholic university’s decision to honour most pro-abortion public official in the country.   People line up to place carnations at the foot of a statue of Mary in the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the US University of Notre Dame on April 5. Hundreds of anti-abortion advocates protested on the campus against the school&...

Unprecedented division has broken out in the Church in America over the issue of abortion following the decision by the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to invite President Barak Obama to give the annual Commencement Address at the University and to confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on him.   Chicago resident and Notre Dame alumnus Jeff Heinz, right, drops his han...

University of Notre Dame Australia lecturer Elsa Cornejo is about to delve into the underworld of human trafficking in the Philippines, learning how victims can be empowered to lift themselves out of their situation. By Anthony Barich Miss Cornejo, 29, was regional director of Caritas in WA for three months before accepting an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship to undertake a P...

By Anthony Barich The University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle is in negotiations with the Archdiocese of Melbourne to “adopt” a parish affected by the Victorian firestorm and to possibly offer scholarships to people in the devastated areas. Staff and students of UNDA participate in an ecumenical prayer service at Holy Spirit Chapel.     &nbs...

The Oblate tradition continues with appointment of chaplain who is also a qualified mining engineer. Fr Gerard Conlan OMI By Anthony Barich Father Gerard Conlan OMI has been appointed as the new Chaplain for The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus.  He replaces Fr Greg Watson OMI, who is yet to be reassigned by the Oblates after serving as UNDA cha...